Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-09
GOLD HUNTING DOWN EAST.
Guards About the
Treasures the Pirates Buried.

treasures the Pirates Buried.
Prom the Ne'o York Sun.
WESTERLY, X. L., Sept. 1.-The Rhode
Island farmer gives much of his spare
time to hunting for gold. Sometimes he
hunts for mines, and now and then for
! the buried treasures OF pirates. Stealthily
a party have been digging for buried
booty at night In wild and chaotic region
q 10 the deep woods on the shore of Wal
TOMS pond at Gloucester. While e. NJ j.,
Taft and W. FL. WoOdhead were stalking
Wild bees recently they CHANGED on the
dlggings made by the treasure hunters,
who had worked systematically and with
3 heavy machines for removing rocks and
debris. Huge boulders had been lifted
n and tipped over with powerful levers, a
work that it would be difficult to do with
0erricks, and large holes excavated into
lse stony earth. Evidently the diggers
\ had just completed the excavations, and
quilted the place, which is seldom visited
EVEN by hunters.
lhey had been trying to find the iron
E9ts OF gold which pirates, who settled at
Nalton's pond $50 years ago, buried
among the Lodges near the shore. An old
woman VINO lived with the pirates said to
uef nelghbors, after the pirates fled to es-
zane from officers, that they had buried
poIs Of gold In several places, but she did
uVt know the places exactly.
Sixty years ago charcoal burners found
: pig iron pot partly buried among the
is1ges, and built over with stones. They
url!led INTO the bottom of 1T, let out the
muter, and got what was In the pot. What
I"y was no one ever knew, certainly but
one nhders went West right after the dis
every and were very wealthy. They
p.efer said what it WAS they found, and
sue5 would not talk about iron pots II any
ppue questioned them. Since then many
% e5nas islanders have digged among the
SuEes OF Walton's pond on moonlight
evenings, in places where the money
tongs indicated. Few of them knew the
PAPER spells with which to keep the devil
~ ana u IS not known that he bothered
~, neau about the clumsy attempts or
g ,nI' eney found anything more substan-
Ana, man moonbeams. IL is believed that
b1'a ave seekers for treasures knew their
'uwSJness and got something.
que they were busy hunting for
RI4'es gold, another band of Rhode Is
,Snu men dug into a gold mine in dreary,
s,Ouueu country near the Providence aud
hiona ng ZION railroad, not far from this
pn. y. mere is gold there, and rich gold,
\, |' ~ Is lorty-two feet beneath the surface
tro .ue ground. A shaft has been sunk
vv" "Id feet into the earth, but the
s sraI Ieage ls many feet lower yet. There
nar, VoIn gold and silver in plentiful shining
\ co S,cles In the gravel OF which the hill
H, Co" posed but 1t is not in paying guam.
nso o me gold wand which the hunters
nreo in,orins them that they will find the
viii S,l. metal without doubt il only they
wiz ~ dlg deep enough for IL.
bahira GL9nnectIcut farmer is not much
Ersad ~ MS hhode Island nelghbor in his
Essea Tor gold and in his bnovant con.
muence that many SPOTS in his hiiiv STATE
~ tlchly inlald with pirates, treasures
nan'i lOng boxes and heavy iron pots. Re.
A'iS several farmers have been digging