Evening star., 1921-02-20
\ HE old saying about the needle
in the haystack and its sue
cess in remaining hidden can


cess in remaining hidden can
| equally we'll be applied to the
! buried treasures in South American
! mountains, secreted by the Indians
when the Spaniards swept over the
country and gorged themselves with
gold.
Greed for gold has ever been inter
woven with nunah histor9. anu the
results have usuai,y been u!sastrous
to the seekers IhiS plottu Inc W
the Spanish conqu.s, u -A:her.ca. yet
no aarigor is too great IL p.erei, iid-
NenluItrs ana so.uierS of fortune III
evei! age seeking the prsc.ous .nctai.
Little is known ot tue supposedly
buried millions witch The inGtan3
striveJ ~ save from Inc inirdd RS,
as,ius tniS ..a.tn into the byt,oa.S
Of HAS and DurS'nS II in thc ear.h
Snla.i CacilI:5 nave t,1cA ioSa.e am,
pol .onS OF ulcoter-L treasure de-
pos.ts are now Oh oisplay in the, Uni
vr.S.t.- II I.a"sSi,anla .aus-uni III
I'h:Iaut. pnia. having been PURCHASED
:, E.lyi. cost 10 he preserved tor its
,..,,or,r NaIut.
ID, descriptions Of this collection.
wiit.sI. covers 80 fee. Of. SHOWCASE
spa - in the liaStti.u and liuiuo~fS
..,ore than 800 pieces, not inciuuinG
any fl fragments. nav been puDtiSne,:
ifvin Tune to tti..v. wi,n a prthi.ar
eGl.t.
.,vorrs of eager persons from every
s3.tlte i'll the L JniuiI AID from foreign
ccui.i.-,s have wr.t;cn 10 Or. ', itIIAai
, q. :.l.2u,c, curdtor ii thc American
S -.tioi, No.uutrsrinG TO journey TO
soutn -Ain.rica ~ iook i"r ihore OF
TIE gold. i:,.os OF .he search fur
I'd oi. I\;dd y treaSGr,S, Or OF the
i Soiu-n.ad days IL ~ pale into lils,s-
ilInla.cu D. SIDE the story Dr. f'arabee
, teiis OF tne uvef-pf. sat azure and
greed wi.cn the hdi,ia.i iiind pos-
! atsses ior i..dd>n wcal,n-
/ 1t was hos aItog, .hrr the cupidity
/ of -,I.t.ic.lls. Dut partly their. nborh
| ,oy. Of "a, e..tur., whicn caused them
f! i'll thc 'tsa Two months to s,Wa.hp the
=, ,.r.,.or with correspondence which
! .'~4LrSrs, ia the ra.i,, luz her nnowi-
! ut,s. oi now to lind th,s goId:
If knew 1 might be tempted to
/ look for it myself said DR.. taraoee
| Himself a foremost authority on the
! ,ncir,,t america.
F. ,Thr,t ril.e collections have Leen
acquired during the past year 0, :
, hciais OF the inaseuin leIusing to es'-
F., innate their intrinsic s,orth, bat
stating tnat the historic value is
greater than the amount of MONEY
they represent.
From IlnglaEd scion OF a roya,
family, writing from the Pail Nal!
4. Club. in London, has requested details.
go that he may Income IA soldier OF
! fortune. Dr.. EaraLee has publicly
/ admitted that many more m. llions un-
| doubtedly remain hidden. and it is
on this statemnt that so many gold
! seekers have come to rely.
| From Cuba and Porto iiico have
come two letters of the same nature.
Engineers are scientifically Interested
! n finding more god, and cranks who
have devices guaranteed to find the
] precious metal have Offered their in
+. vea.iu.is for sale.
in this latter connection one pa
thetic letter comes from an old llan
WHO wrote from Portland. Ore. tell
ing d.. Farabee that he had gold
bug" which would Indicate the pres
=, ence Of sold within "A radius of five
! miles, and incidentally letting fal,
some secrets he already knew OF hid
| len treasure in this country. Labor
ing under d misrepresentation that DIR.
| Farabee had personally found the mu-
| Seum's collections, the man wrote:-
! Il wish / had been one of your
! party. 1 have invented three ma
chimes, one for gold, one for silver
and one for copper. The gold bug
/ will draw from one to Ave miles OF a
gold deposit. ] made them myself.
1 can make machines to locate any
mineral in earth. rock or water. You
{: may not believe il. but il is true.
In three months l will be ninety
, years old. Now I want to Sell my Sc
I crets TO some reliable person. l need
; money badly. =
+, II can tell a miner how much his
+; ore Will run to the ton. II this inter-