The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-03

was sent by James II of England to effect recov- cry He found the treasure, removed only a part of it, and then sailed away owing to the approach of two Spanish men-of-war He about to re- turn, when the revolution of 16S8 broke out and he deterred In the admiralty archives are all details of this uncompleted task. What was easy for Captain Phipps should be still easier with modern methods
 For the past twenty years Mexican anttquarians have been expecting the announcement of the finding of vast treasure in the State of Puebla. The third royal Spanish viceroy after Cortez sue ceeded In torturing from the chiefs of a tribe in Jalisco the secrets of the hiding places of all of the tribal store Of gold and silver and by great efforts brought 1t to Tacuba, where it was con cealed during a period when the suzerainty of New Spain or less uncertain. A dummy treasure-tra1n was organized and started for Vera Cruz, and the word went forth that 1t carried the treasure. Some weeks later the real treasure train of hundred and eighty mules set out with only the usual small guard.
 In way the word got abroad, and the train was attacked by a mixed force of adventurers and Indians at a point within sight of the white tops of Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl. The de- lenders of the treasure succeeded in escaping with the loss of five mules and their burdens but while passing through gorge on the route of the old trail, now followed more less closely by the Mexican railroad, they decided 1t was best to cache the treasure.
 A cave in the gorge W as chosen and three hun dred and twenty bags of gold and silver con- taining several million dollars worth, depending on how much more gold there than silver, were stored away, while the train proceeded to OriZaba Some fifteen miles from the site of the present. town the same band again attacked the train and killed nearly all the guard Since the development of the region in which the cave must lie has begun, Its discovery is only matter of time, and 1t might be effected with compara- tive ease. There cannot be many gorges and caves are not frequent. The chances for finding the right one are rather strong. It has never been attempted
 No small spot on the face Of the earth has been so productive of treasure hunting adventure as Cocos Island off the coast of Costa Rica
 The west coast pirate Bonita before his death insisted that he had planted more than two mil lion dollars in gold, silver Jewels and plate on the island but his specific directions were lost by his ignorant executioners
 party of Mexican political refugees several of them of the famous Romero family or It's con- nections, fleeing from the wrath of Santa Ansla in 1S4S, planted under stone arch on the island more than one million dollars, the revolutionary fund with which they expected to gain control Of the government.
 The third treasure is the greatest and most im- portant. There Is little doubt as to whether 1t Is located on Cocos or is in the Galapagos group of the coast of Peru. The traditions all say the latter place, but after digest of all sources Of information I am convinced that Cocos is the spot.
 Among the smaller treasures of which there is record it is well to mention the seven large can- non filled with gold-pieces by the pirate VfIlazon and buried on an island at the very southernmost part of the Bay of Campeachy; the reported cache on the top of the eminence immediately north Of the city of Santiago de Cuba, to be reached onIy by difficult trail starting in near Dos Caminos; i; the mysterious and probably nonexistent Havana municipal treasure, said to have been assembled 4Ln within the ramparts of Moro Castle so efrectually that 1t never found again