Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-12-02

covery of gold in California. rh
affair at Phars, in 1914, when til
Spaniards were judged and execu
ed was dsmpener on Spanis
mining ardor. 1t is SAID tina
Indians of Peru can get gold a
any time when little is needed
but as rule they prefer gettin
along without 1t. 1t is related
that when Humboldt was explor
ing in the vicinity of the tempt,
of the sun at Cuzco, poor lad
decendent OF the ancient Incae
told him the story OF the grea
golden chain of tha Incas whicl
he said was sunk in the baths a
Pulamarac, and that there ar
gardens with artificial trees of pu
rest gold beneath the temple
Humboldt's lad when asked why
he did not seok for tho bidder
treasure, said it would do him
no good if he found 1t; would
only cause his neighbors to hate
and injure him. "We have q
little field" he said, "and good
wheat" He preferred his little
field and peace to gold and strife,
There is a story that under the
old castle of Cuzco is vault of
great size filled with figures of all
the Incas wrought in fine gold.
Felipe de Pomaues relates that
in his own day certain Donna
Marir de Esquevll was married
to 4 defendant of the lncas, and
frequently reproached her hus-
band with being too poor to sup
port her properly, This so irri
tated him that he at last blind
folded her and after leading her
through many winding snbterra-
mean passages at last brouptit her
to a great vaulted chamber whore
she saw such wealth, according to
her report, as no mortal ever
dreamed of: II was supposed that
she was taken under tho old castle
as she saw many golden statues as
large as life. As the husband still
remained contented with his little
truck-patch his wife was not much
comforted.
At the time Of the rebellion in
1914, as related by an old woman
Of the Astete family to Nj. Mark
ham, about thirty years ago, Pun
acaque, the chief who headed the
rising, entered the council chamber
loaded with gold dripping wet.
The old woman said her father was
present at the time. Pumacaque
had made trip up the bed of the
Huataney to cave filled with gold
Md golden images and brought
away what he could carry in order
% show his followers that the ST.
news of war was not lacking. After
lis final defeat it is stated as a
act that Pumacaque offered as
ansom for his life a pile OF gold
arger than that anclently given by
Atahaalpa. The offer was declined |
md the chief died without reveal
ng his secret; to his conquerers at
east. 1t is said that when Plzarro
oubled the amount of gold asked
o be piled up in the great room as
ansom for the life of Atahuslpa,
hen strangled the CHIEF, the natives
rho were coming from all parts of
be country with the extra amount
gold demanded, heard of the
reacherous act and buried their
Dads of the precious metal some
here in the mountains Of Liam
rnati, to the north of Quito. To
lis day the secret of the where
bouts of this hoard has been kept.
mother story of the golden chain
{ the Incas is that every link was
: thick as mans arm. and that
was SO long as to go twice around
lie great square of Huacapsta. 1t
said to have been sunk in the
eep lake of Urcos to save it from
le Spaniards. There is still to
3 seen drift which the Spaniards
arted through the mountains and
ie work done shows that the Span-
!rds had faith in the story of the