Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1917 — SEEK GOLD IN OLD MOUNDS [ARTICLE]

SEEK GOLD IN OLD MOUNDS

Fortune Seekers Likely to Level the Indian Mounds Near Decatur, Alabama. Decatur. Ala.—lndian mounds in this section will probably be leveled by fortune seekers. An Indian doctor recently told how a party of Indians from the Indian Nation in Oklahoma had come into the Tennessee valley and removed a quantity of gold from one of the mounds. Every year, during the late summer, there are rumors of Indians mysteriously visiting the hunting grounds of the Cherokees for the purpose of recovering gold. The gold, it is said, was dug from the mountdins of North Alabama and North Georgia and when the Cherokees were moved to the West they buried their gold, fearing their white conquerors would take it from them. „