Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-20

/ 1t to his family as part of his estate,
the rest Of which consisted Of two mules
and a hypotenuse of honorable land.
! The sheet of paper was Of the old. blue
/ kind used during the re bellion of the
| abolitiOnists against the secessionists. 1t
| was dated June IA, 1863, and il described
! the hiding PLACE of ten hurr0 loads of
! gold and silveh coin valued at $500 600.
/ Old UNDERGRADUATES of his grandson.
! Sam-was given the information by a
/ Spanish priest who was in on the treas
IRE burying, and who died many years
| before-no, afterward-in old Rumble 8
house, Old Rumble wrote it down from
| dictaton.
Why din't your father look this up 2"
I asked young Rudnle.
He went blind before he could do So"
| he replied.
why didn't you hunt for it yourself? 2"
I asked.
We'll" said he, eve only known about
| the paper for ten years. First there was
| the spring ploughin' to do, and then
chopin the weeds out Of the corn and
then come takin' fodder; and mighty
soon winter was on us. 1t seemed TO
run along that way year after year"
That sounded perfectly reasonable to
! roe, so took 1t up with young Lee
I Rumble al once
The directions on the paper were
simple. The whole burro cavalcade laden
with the treasure started from an old
! Spanish mission in Dolores County. They
Travelled due south by the compass I'M
! til they reached the Atlantic River. They
{ AOEQtQ lulss ana buried the treasure On
The top Of little mountain shaped like
a packsaddle standing in O row between
two higher ones. A heap of stones mark
ed the place Of the buried treasure. All
the party except the Spanish priest were
killed by Indians few days later. The
/ secret was monopoly. 1t looked good
to me.
Lee Rumble suggested that we rig
cut q camping outfit, hire a survey OF
to run out the line from the Spanish
mission, and then spend the three
hundred thousand dollars seeing tho
sights in Fort Worth. But, without
being highly educated, l knew way to
save time and expense.
We went to the State land office and
had practical. what they call
working" sketch made Of all the
surveys OF land from the old mission
to the Atlantic River. On this map
l drew a line due southwark to the
river. The length Of lines Of each
survey and section OF land wa sac
curatsly given on the sketch. BY these
we found the pOiut on the river and had
. connection made with 10 and an i'm
portant we'll identified corner of ths Los
Animos five league survey-a grant made
by King Philip of Spain.
BY doing this we did not need to have
the line run out by a surveyor. 1t was
Il great saving Of expense and time.
SO, Lee Rumble and | fitted out a two
horse wagon team with all the
I acCc@9ollea' huu tIofS HuHuIe'A anu
forty nine miles TO Chico. the nearest
town to the point we wished TO reach.
! There We picked up a deputy county
surveyor. He found the corner Of the
Los Animos survey for US, ran out the
five thousand seven hundred and twenty
vsras west that our sketch called for.
laid a stone on the spot had coffee and
bacon, and caught the mall stage back to
Chico.
I was pretty sure We would get that
three hundred thousand dollars. Lee
Ruudle's was TO be only one third. be
cause ! was paving all the expenses.
With that two hundred thousand dollars
knew I could find May Martha Mangum
IL sho was on earth. And with II / could
f1utter the butterflies IN Old man Man
gums dovecote, too. II l could find
that treasure.
But Lee and l established camp. Across
the river were a dozen little mountains