The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1903-09-10
BURIED TREASURE.

oscH seTvHG P"pe's w e"o "r'' Wv" w
the county, reformed last week and
states ths, parties in the vest end are
sctively engaged in digging for buried
treasures. While crossing tho mesa
between the corrumpa and cimarro0
nvers. McKew cnnie upon IN Sxcava.
,ion, aad being curious to know why
any one would he digging up the ear'h
in that vicinity, drove over to ioves
tiga,c. He came upon Michael R,.-.
ard from him learned the fOllo wing
story. "According 10 an old spanish
mexican legend which has been handed
down for generations a'uong th.
mexicius, a vast quapity Of geld was
buried by spanish expedition, which
is knoxn among the mex'caos NJ, the
lost treasure Of the Tres Piedr9.
According to this legend, the trail OF
the expedition was marked by huge
stones irrcgularly placed at some
distance apart, but forming a symbol
resembling n gigantic letter v.
Chiselled on the under face Of the rock
a, the paint of this V would be found
the symbol. v and the whole symbo.
marked the direction in which the next
marks Of the trail would be found.
These stones would DO found at q
distance Of from five 70 ten miles apart.
They can be found in many places
eastward from Santa Fe aud Las Vegas
New MEXICO, and several years ago,
priests of the catholic church employed
guides and followed the trail to within
thirty FIVE miles Of Clayton New
Mexico, where !, was lost and further
search abandoned. Ryan il now sn
old man. lie has lived 10 tho west all
his life, and as 4 child playing with
mexican children, learned their Inn.
guagc which he speaks Auen,ly. All
his life be has been familiar With the
many mexican legends, but like others,
had never psid and attention to them,
aud probably would not now, had i,
not bc,n for AN incident q lev year,
ago, which caused him to take up the
trail Of the Tres Piedras legend
While travelling overland in north
eastern New Mexico his horses s,rayed
from camp one night, and not being
near = settlement. he was compelled Il
search for them on foot. After search.
ing for several hours, he sat dowr
upon a stone to rest, aud while ther,
observed that the rocks in the VICINITY
formed in inai,tinc, V. His curiosit,
being aroused, he followed them 10 /,
stone that seemed TO indicnte the toin
Of the V, aud after some exertiop
succeeded in overtuiniuy il. aud TO BIZ
surprise, found the symbol de- pl,
,hiselleI on the uuder face. As thi
was at point beyond where the priest
had abandoned the trail Ryan CAREFUL,
marked The place, aud a few month
afterwards returned and took up III,
los, trail. Several times during III,
neg, year or 10 he would loose ii, an,
after giving mp for u while, wou',
return with fresh supplies and take |
up again, and at last, hear Gsrrett il
this county, he came upon = Sigh
mound near the old santa fe trail wler
three large fat rocks made the symbol
On the under side Of ono of thes
appeared the symbol indistinctly chir
-lled. Following the direction indica,
ed, within q quarter of = mile he cam
upon another irdis,inct trinngls, wltI
the symbol pointing In The direc,,o,
from which he came. Hc searche,
the land iu the vicinity for days, an,
finally came upon an".her symbol
waich with the two former, formed
triangle with the points about on
quarter Of mile distant. The v o.
each rock poiu,ed to the center OF thi
triangle. and believing that tLi
indicated the termination of his search
he commenced digging ih the cen,r
of the triangle, where McKew ssm
across him. In the hole Ryan ha
found bnrnt adobs bricks, twelve foe
under the surfrce, which ars ceriaiul
the hsndwork CT man. And man
americans who are familiar with ,hi
legend, now believe tbst within thi
mystic quarter mile triangle, lieS buris
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