Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — UNEARTHS $200,000 [ARTICLE]

UNEARTHS $200,000

Industrious Agriculturist Is First to Realize on Pioneer Treasure Nocona, Tex.—Several days ago a farmer by the name of Paj£dr unearthed a number of bars of silver on his farm near this place while plowing cotton. The discovery was kept quiet until Mr. Palmer had sent a bar of the metal to the mint at Denver, Colo., for an analysis. The mint reported that it assayed 85 per cent pure silver and 15 per cent zinc. Palmer’s find is estimated to be worth over $200,000. Throughout this region there are many legends of buried treasure. This section of Texas was first settled by the. Spaniards and all the stories of buried gold and silver have to do with treasure trains of pack mules and priests traveling to civilization and being waylaid and killed by the Indians. It is asserted that rhe priests buried the treasure each mght when they camped and always made a drawing of the spot so that it might tfe found by the initiated in e event anything happened to them. It has been a favorite pastime of rainbow chasers -the past hundred years to search for treasure supposed to have been buried by these early fathers of the church. Many men have spent their lives digging for mythical treasures, but this is the first authentic report of a find.