Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-16


dairy line or little creek to raid their
enemies Turkey, whose people have
been terrorized, for ages, has more lost
boards than the world will ever know
about, because there the boarding has
gone on for ages, during which armies
have swung up and down the denuded
lands, tearing down cities and destroy
ing everything that could give comfort
or sustenance to an enemy.
Spain has millions Of dollars in gold,
silver, pearls and gems buried and lost
in thousand ancient castles, monas-
teries and other public buildings. In
the heyday of her glory Spain import
ed countless millions of gold and silver
| from the Americas and faithless off,
cals made away with great sums in
| bullion, hiding it away-and many OF
them never recovered it.
India is the bottomless pit of the
worlds gold. In one year India i'm
ported $300,000,O00, and there has never
been a time apparently when India was
not importing gold, silver and precious
| jewels. In the temples of Ida there
are said to be $500, 100000 in precious
metal and precious stones. India has
more fine pearls than all the rest Of
| the world put together. They have even
gold cannons there-cannons that
weigh $50 pounds each.
The tourist sees some of this gold;
| if a visitor should attend function
given by one of the princes of India he
would see jewels whose value he could
not estimate. Afghan, Mogul, Tartar,
raiding through India, found millions
upon millions, but the troops did not
| find it ALL In the ground, in places
| where none could find or would search,
is the vast wealth which the natives Of
India bury, and keep buried.
The ameer of Bokhara, Russian
vassel in Central Asia, is said to have
been accommodating n hoard amounting
| to $S,000,000 a year, and this is kept
in a great vault where Russia might
| possibly find resource in case Of need.
In Egypt and along the north shore Of
Africa, the Barbary coast people have
their boards estimated by the millions.
! The lost treasure of the Incas is esti-
mated at $500, 900, 900 in gold.
No one is able to guess the amount
of gold that has been looted in the his
tory of the world by raiding armies.
| When the wars of old were waged bill
lions of treasure changed hands from
the vanquished to the victors. The
treasure was commonly the public
funds Men known to have wealth were
held for ransom, enslaved, tortured, cut
to pieces bit by bit in the effort to
compel the revelation of hiding places.
In the ruins of Carthage is a vault
that holds the treasure of the vandal
Genseriv which was not found when
| Carthage finally fell. The buried treas
ure of Carcassonne, in southern France
was put away when the Huns and
Slavs ranged over Europe trying to
eXterminatc the Latns. Alaric, the
| Goth, looted Rome and cached his
| treasure III NdICdSSOllllt, say
in a deep cave, and killed the men who
helped him stow it away, and it has
never been found
| This treasure was part of ii from
Solomon's temple, Titus haying raid
cd Jerusalem and made away with the
treasure that solomon had gathered up,
and which was part Of the loot that
King David had captured in his great
wars of conquest and defense. There
was the accumulation of ten centuries
of profit in the temple Of Solomon.
The loot Of ancient Rome, the loot Of
Constantinople of Calcutta, Bombay,
Pekin, with the treasure ships captur-
ed at sea, paid the price Of capture.
There were raids on the treasure towns