"Striking It Rich:" the Story Just Gets "Curiouser and Curiouser"

 (Sanders' "Washington Nugget"...ooops! I mean Cox's "Orange Roughie.")

A Convoluted Tale

Well lo and behold...it seems this convoluted tale of potential intrigue and actual fraud just refuses to go away and maybe that's the way it should be. Like the book Alice in Wonderland, the story of the half-million dollar "Washington Nugget" just gets "curiouser and curiouser."

Is there collusion somewhere in this tale of a dirty deed gone wrong? I'll let you, my readers, decide. There is much to be gleaned from the comments and perspectives in this post as well as a follow-up post to come. So read carefully.

Anonymous Commenter at "Bedrock Dreams:"

"I think you will find this scam/fraud would come under some breach of the law. It's no different than those Nigerian e-mail scams that say they have many millions and just need a bank account to deposit it into. Total BS, just like this situation. Sanders isn't the only one in on this blatant attempt to defraud people of their monies."

The key players in this sordid little affair are, once again:

Murray Cox and Reggie Wilson, the Aussie nugget hunters who blew the cover off this fraud;

Jim Sanders (a.k.a. James Sanders Grill), the known liar and scammer (among other things...) who said he recovered this once-in-a-lifetime find on his property near Nevada City, California.

Fred Holabird, mining geologist and president of a nifty little company calling itself Holabird-Kagin Americana which is in the business of selling (would you believe??) historical "rarities."

Don Kagin, coin dealer, auctioneer and business partner of Fred Holabird. Would you believe it was Kagin who auctioned off the "Washington Nugget" after his business "pard" Holabird verified its authenticity? (Noooooo, REALLY??)

Associate Press Excerpts

Here are some excerpts from an Associated Press (AP) story on this whole mess. I've underlined passages I found highly "interesting" and salient to the fraud and scam aspects of this ill-conceived hoax:

"After Jim Sanders' 'find' on his property near Nevada City, California made news last year, Australian prospector Murray Cox compared pictures of Sanders' 'Washington Nugget' with the 'Orange Roughie' he unearthed near Melbourne in 1987. They were an exact match, except the 'Washington Nugget' sold for $460,000 and Cox originally sold the 'Orange Roughie' for $50,000."

"Cox contacted Don Kagin and Fred Holabird who together had auctioned off the nugget for Sanders. The two investigated Cox's claims and determined he was right."

J.R.: So two experts, one in mining history and geology, the other in rare coins and historical Americana, can only make a determination of this AFTER THE FACT (when they've been caught with their proverbial pants down?). I guess they were just  a couple of nice-guy, "babes in the woods" types trying to eke out a living in a cut-throat business where you better know your stuff or else. (Sorta makes you wonder doesn't it?)

 (A positively beaming Fred Holabird [left] holding up the...hmmm....which was it now? "Washington Nugget" or "Orange Roughie?")

AP Excerpt:

"As for exactly how Sanders got his hands on the Aussie gold chunk? The dealers (Holabird and Kagin) said confidentiality agreements barred them from elaborating on this."

J.R.: Well that's damn convenient, don't you think? It reminds me of the accused taking the 5th Amendment in a court room.

Now let me think a bit....If Fred Holabird and his business partner (partners?) could sell a $50,000 nugget for nearly half a million they wouldn't stand to gain anything would they? Oh, and Jim Sander's slice of the action wouldn't include wayyyyyyyyy overinflated prices for his Nevada City property would it? Especially since California property values have tanked so badly in the last few years? Nawwwwwww...what am I thinking?!

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Boy oh boy, there's much more on this stinky mess to come, so stay tuned. In the meantime, start practicing your detective or prosecutor's skills...something just ain't right here.

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Striking It Rich:' the Two Aussies Were Right After All!"

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at jr872vt90@yahoo.com

Kansas Treasure Caches

(Kansas county map.)

Like most states, Kansas has its share of tales of lost treasure caches and troves. Although the Sunflower State has even produced a Jesse James and Knights of the Golden Circle cache or two, most of the time Kansas tends to disappear off the radar screen of most treasure hunters.

Perhaps the following lost caches will change this fact:

Diamond Springs Robbery Caches

Legend has it that numerous outlaw caches are buried in the immediate environs of Diamond Springs in Marion County. This area is cut by numerous deep ravines that made ideal locations for robbers to hide out after hitting immigrant wagons, stagecoaches, or even the occasional solitary traveler or two.

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A number of robberies and depredations took place just a few miles east of Diamond Springs and caches consisting of gold and silver coins still remain buried there. Additionally, if you're an avid coin or artifact hunter, try swinging your metal detector over the ground of one of the many abandoned homesteads and old settlements in the area...just don't trespass.

Half a Million in Gold near Lyons

Over $7,000 face value in U.S. type gold coins may be buried near the old Cow Creek Crossing west of Lyons, Kansas. At today's gold prices this cache is probably worth over half a million dollars or more. This cache represents the remnants of a larger amount of gold and silver specie carried by one Antonio Chavez, who was waylaid and eventually killed by a band of gunmen at this location.

Larkin Skaggs' Gold Coins

After William Quantrill's murderous raid on Lawrence, Kansas in August 1863 it's estimated that more than $3,000,000 in gold and silver coin, jewelry, silverware, greenbacks, and other "goodies" were carried off by Quantrill's Confederate partisan rangers. Although much of this trove made it back to Missouri, some of it did not.

 (The sacking of Lawrence, Kansas by Quantrill's Raiders.)

Somewhere just southeast of Lawrence, over $500 in U.S. gold type coin was hurriedly buried by one of Quantrill's "bushwhackers" named Larkin Skaggs. During the Lawrence raid, Skaggs robbed (and more than likely killed) one George Burt, a Lawrence businessman.

Research May Pay Off Handsomely

After the raid, Skaggs rode off to the southeast while the rest of Quantrill's men headed northeast into Missouri. This proved to be Skaggs' undoing when the hapless "bushwhacker" was chased down by a small group of Kansans from a neighboring community and dealt immediate justice. However, Burt's gold was not on Skagg's person or in his possessions.

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Undoubtedly, many such small caches or lost or dropped plunder exist around the Lawrence, Kansas area as well as along the route that Quantrill's men took back into Missouri. A bit of research is required, but it may pay off handsomely in the end.

Good hunting out there.

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "'Bushwhacker' Caches in Missouri"

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at jr872vt90@yahoo.com

Confederate Treasure Trove Near Marietta, Georgia?

(A large swath of destruction was cut through Georgia by Sherman's troops.)

"Make Georgia Stand Up and Howl"

No matter what you think of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, his Civil War philosophy of "total war" and his strategies for carrying out that viewpoint were not only immensely destructive but just as effective. In the late Fall of 1864 Sherman vowed to make the Confederate state of Georgia "stand up and howl" and this he did.

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As Sherman's army approached north Georgia many civilians fled in panic, taking what little they could carry and burying their valuables in numerous small caches around their homes and farms or along their path of flight. I've written about this aspect of Sherman's "March to the Sea" in an earlier post titled "Civil War Treasure Caches in Georgia."

A Massive Amount of "Goodies"

Although many treasure and artifact hunters understand that the entire area transited by fleeing Georgians and Sherman's attacking troops holds great recovery potential, only a few know that larger treasure troves were also a manifestation of Sherman's scorched earth policies. One of these involves a massive amount of gold, silver, and jewelry cached near Marietta, Georgia.

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Before Sherman marched into and through Georgia, a number of voluntary "drives" to fund the Confederate war effort had been held in the Atlanta area. Many Georgians, ever loyal to the Confederacy, donated massive amounts of their own gold and silver coins and jewelry, as well as some precious metals bullion to government coffers.

4-5 Miles South of Marietta

As Sherman's "bummers" approached North Georgia at least one full boxcar of these donated "goodies" sat on a railroad siding in Atlanta. A detachment of Confederate troops was assigned to guard and deliver this treasure trove via train to Tennessee where the somewhat misguided Confederate general John B. Hood had marched his men to the disastrous Battle of Franklin instead of making a stand in Georgia.

The train pulling the box car was south of Marietta about 4-5 miles when it was waved to a stop by a small group of Confederate cavalry who warned that Sherman's forward elements were within striking distance. Taking no chances, the Confederates guarding the boxcar began removing the boxes and chests holding the "goodies."

How This Came to be Known

Frantic, the guards began burying the treasure in a heavily wooded area not far from the railway itself. When their task was complete they nailed a metal band around a nearby tree trunk as a signpost and then moved to off to escape capture by Sherman's troops.

How did all this come to be known? Nearly 75 years after the incident itself, a former Confederate soldier who claimed to be part of the treasure detachment told this tale to a military officer who was interviewing him. Was the old guy right or just spinning up a yarn?

If he was telling the truth, there's a multi-million dollar treasure trove awaiting discovery in or near
Marietta, Georgia.

Good hunting...

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Gold in North Georgia: the Sugar Hill Treasure (Part 1)"

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at jr872vt90@yahoo.com

Get Greedy, Get Stupid, Get Taken...

("Just relax...it'll all be over soon...")

Bloodsuckers and Other Human Parasites

I've touched on this topic in the past in "Treasure Trove Dreams" but the danger posed by treasure hunting scams is even more pronounced today as we struggle with a half-dead economy, high unemployment, and various and sundry other social maladies. To top things off, precious metals are at all-time highs and this factor brings all sorts of human parasites out from under their rocks and their dark corners to feast on the financial blood of the naive and the unwary.

Lest you think me paranoid about the danger presented by these treasure-hunting bloodsuckers, there are any number of horror stories I could relate to substantiate my claims. Let's take a look at a few of these:

Say "Bye-Bye" to $250,000

New York state resident Dennis L. had already suffered plenty before he was bled dry by a treasure hunting parasite masquerading as an "investment counselor." In 1974 Dennis was in a terrible plane crash that eventually put him through 50 surgeries to correct the damage done. Yep, you heard right...50 surgeries.

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A few years back Dennis was approached by a wolf in sheep's clothing who conned him into investing his entire retirement savings of $250,000 in a sure thing treasure hunting company that was about to crack the "big one" and make millions upon millions from the treasure itself as well as a documentary film about the treasure recovery.

That was in 2004 and guess what? Dennis hasn't seen one thin dime of his investment returned to him by this scammer and his bogus treasure hunting company. Additionally, the only documentary being made about this nasty mess is in the courtroom.

Phony Engineers and Spanish Treasure

More recently, a Florida man escaped being taken for $100,000 when a phony "engineer" showed up on his property with a metal detector claiming that he had solid information that an old Spanish treasure trove of gold and silver coins and bullion was buried on the mark's property.

This treasure hunting parasite convinced the property owner to accompany him while he metal detected on the owner's land. Lo and behold and glory be! Guess what? The scammer was able to recover a clay pot with old coins in it and a map stating that a buried treasure worth perhaps millions was awaiting recovery underground nearby.

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This had the property owner champing at the bit (or better yet, nearly taking the $100,000 hook) until sanity prevailed in the form of friends and relatives who urged the property owner to contact the police. The upshot? Good guys 1, bloodsuckers 0.

Yamashita's Gold Madness

This particular scam just seems to go on and on, but before some of you (and you know who you are) get your tighty whities all bunched up, I am not saying that the legend of Yamashita's lost gold in the Philippines is a scam. What is a parasitic scam, however, are the numerous folks both here and in the Philippines who feast off the financial blood of numerous suckers enticed to buy bogus treasure maps and other oddities of questionable value and authenticity related to the WWII Japanese general's gold.

Worse yet are the self-proclaimed treasure hunters who charge their marks thousands or tens of thousands of dollars to join real-life treasure hunts in the Philippines which are little more than thinly veiled cheap-o tourist jaunts that are long on beer and bar girls and short on treasure hunting. Whatever floats your boat, huh?

Anyhoo, I think you get the overall picture. One thing to remember is this: greed is the main driver in many treasure hunting scams.

Get greedy, get stupid, and get taken....

Good hunting.

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Legends of Lost Gold: the Lost Pegleg Mine"

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at jr872vt90@yahoo.com

2 Virginia Treasure Caches

 

The State of Virginia has one of the longest and richest histories of all 50 states. The "Old Dominion" is a state of tradition and respect for the past and it contains many cultural treasures as well as those made of gold and silver that are long lost.

The latter type of treasure is the topic of this post, Virginia treasure caches. Here are two:

Mosby's Cache

John Singleton Mosby (the "Grey Ghost") was, without doubt, the most daring and effective Confederate partisan leader of the U.S. Civil War. "Mosby's Rangers" danced circles around Union forces for most of the war and pulled off some pretty amazing feats while doing so, including the capture of Union General Edwin Stoughton in March 1863.

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When the Grey Ghost and his men made off with Stoughton they also carried with them over $350,000 in gold coins, heirloom silverware and jewelry, and various other personal odds and ends of value looted from the homes of Virginians by General Stoughton's men. After delivering Stoughton to Confederate forces at Culpepper, Mosby and his sergeant, Jim Ames buried a large tote sack containing this loot halfway between Haymarket and New Baltimore meaning to return for it at a later date.

 (The "Grey Ghost," John Singleton Mosby.)

 The war intervened however, and Mosby was drawn away to more pressing tasks. Unfortunately, Jim Ames was captured by Union troops serving under the swaggering Union general (brevet) George Armstrong Custer and hanged on Custer's orders.

On his deathbed in 1916, the Grey Ghost stated that "I've always meant to look for that cache we buried after capturing Stoughton. Some of the most precious heirlooms of old Virginia were in that sack. I guess one of these days someone else will find it."

To my knowledge, no one ever has.

The Cousins Cache

In the 1920s just before the advent of the Great Depression a wealthy farmer named Cousins worked his land just south of Hopewell, Virginia. Over the years Cousins had amassed quite a fortune in gold and silver U.S type coins.

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When the Stock Market collapsed in 1929, Cousins (like many other Americans) buried his savings in series of "post-hole" banks near his home. According to legend, Cousins used 3 gallon-sized Mason jars to stash his coins in and then buried them on his property. (Here's a research question: did Mason make gallon jars?)

A few years later Cousins was killed in farm accident without ever revealing to his family the location of his stashes. To this day no one has ever publicly claimed to have found the Cousins Cache.

Good hunting out there!

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Small Treasures: 'Post-Hole Banks'"

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at jr872vt90@yahoo.com

The Lost Gold of Benton Lake, Michigan

(Michigan is the location of many lost treasure caches.)

Every state in the Union has its share of treasure myths, legends, and leads. Michigan too can boast of quite a few treasure troves and caches, including the one I'm about to relate to you:

Lost Gold of Benton Lake

In the 2-3 decades immediately after the end of the U.S. Civil War, logging became Michigan's main industry. Many lumberjacks lived in lumber camps scattered throughout the Wolverine State and in the 1870s one of the largest of these was located in the west-central part of the state near Benton Lake in Newaygo County.

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A small gang of robbers staked out the mining camp and determined when the camp payroll was about to be dispensed. The hit the camp late one night just before the lumberjacks were due their wages. The thieves did well and scored an estimated $74,000 in gold in the robbery.

How Does 5.5 Million Sound?

Not only was this illicit haul a large amount of money for the day but with current gold prices, this trove could be worth over 5.5 million dollars to the lucky finder. You heard right, five and half million U.S. greenbacks! However, if the Benton Lake trove consists of gold coins (most likely), this value may go up considerably due to numismatics.

(If the Benton Lake trove is in gold coins, numismatic value might push up the overall value considerably.)

I don't believe his tale of lost gold is a "will-o-the-wisp" either. There is documentation (albeit slim) to support the robbery and the fact that the robbers hurriedly buried their ill-gotten gains as a mob of angry lumberjacks chased after them.

Beware the Cast-Iron Stove

One account of this treasure tale even has the thieves stashing the gold inside a cast-iron stove and then burying the same inside a very deep hole. Here's where the treasure hunting red flags should start popping up and waving around inside your brain:

1)You and the boys just robbed the payroll from a lumber camp;

2) A horde of angry lumberjacks are trying their best to run you all down and stretch your necks with rope slung over a tree limb; and

3) You're gonna take your sweet time to "find" a cast-iron stove, stash the gold inside, and then dig a whopper of a hole in the ground with shovels to bury it all in.

Not in this lifetime, brothers and sisters.

What is True...

What is true, however, is that all this gold WAS buried near the shoreline of Benton Lake. But lakes can grow in size and perhaps the stash point is now under water. Oh, and how many miles of shoreline does Benton Lake have, by the way?

Assuming no one ever recovered this trove, I see 2 very clear methods of trying to locate this one. What are they? I'm not talking...

Good hunting out there!

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Treasure Hunting Questions and Answers: Part 5"

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at jr872vt90@yahoo.com

"Striking It Rich:" the Two Aussies Were Right After All!

 (The bogus "Washington Nugget.")

Pulling a Fast One

The convoluted and somewhat mysterious story of Jim Sanders' claim that he found the nearly 9-troy pound "Washington Nugget" on his property in Nevada County, California has come to a screeching halt. Experts have concluded that Sanders' spectacular nugget is, in fact, the "Orange Roughie" found in the Outback by Aussie nugget hunters Reggie Wilson and Murray Cox back in 1987.

Reg and Murray said that Sanders and his cohorts were trying to pull a fast one and bless their little "Digger" hearts...the two Aussies were right after all! (Come on, as treasure hunters did we ever doubt them?) Anyway, Mr. Sanders (or whatever his true name is) has emerged from this entire soap opera with quite a bit of doggy doo spattered on his face.

Word Has It

Word has it that the whopping $460,000 paid for Sanders' "Washington Nugget" has been returned to the buyer by the auction house or coin dealers who sold him the nugget. I'm pretty sure those high-brow dealers are their profession's laughing stocks these days and rightly so.

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Lest you feel too badly for these clowns, the auctioneers/dealers did manage to find another buyer for the "Washington Nugget"....ooops!...I mean the "Orange Roughie." But the sellers got a much lower price after Sanders' BS (can you say scam?) was exposed. (No way?? Yes, way!!)

Gotta Love Those Aussies!

While Reg Wilson and Murray Cox are receiving numerous "Good on ya Mates" and hearty back slaps for telling it like it is, Sanders and his associates are laying low, obviously smarting from the slap in the face delivered by their own ineptitude. Oh fudge boys!! Ease up on yourselves. You tried your best but "stuff" happens...and not always to the sucker or "mark."

I tell you what though, brothers and sisters. Ya just gotta love those Aussies! They don't give up when they know they're right and they're hell on wheels when it comes to fighting back. I know...I saw them in action in Vietnam and on R&R leave as well! (Ooooh boy, you don' even want to know...)

Gets Me All Misty Eyed

I swear, I'm sitting here grinning because it's just like the old days of 1849-1855 when n'er-do-wells of every persuasion "worked" the California gold fields fleecing the '49ers. Sanders and his "pards" were just carrying on a long and sordid tradition. That's all.

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Gets me all misty eyed though, truth be told. Why is that you ask? Simply because the "good guys" won for a change!

Good luck to you.

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Striking It Rich:" California Man's 9-Pound Nugget a Scam?

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at mailto:jr872vt90@yahoo.com

How About a Multi-Billion Dollar Treasure Trove?

(Some of the thousands of gold coins found.)

Amazing Find

Why do we even bother wasting our time talking about puny treasures worth only a few million dollars or so? How about a treasure trove estimated to be worth over 10 billion dollars?!! Yep, you heard right and I didn't accidentally replace an "m" with a "b."

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Now before you start rushing around like a headless chicken gathering up all your treasure hunting gear, this "big one" has already been found and it wasn't in Kansas either. This amazing treasure was found just a few days ago in India in a temple dedicated to the High Lord "Vishnu."

Hidden Vaults Held the Treasure

I'll pass the name of this temple on to you, but it's so hard to pronounce ("Sree Padmanbhaswamy") I don't think it'll do you much good. What I do know is that the location of the "Sree Pad" (my name for it!) temple and its associated trove reside in southern India where worshippers have, over time, made offerings of gold jewelry, gold coins, and precious stones.

Other Indian temples have given up amazingly rich hoards in the past, but nothing like the "Sree Pad" where hidden vaults held a staggering wealth of rich items. Included among these were gold chains 18 feet long (yep, feet, not inches!) and piles of gold coins.

("Sree Pad" temple where billions in treasure were found.)

"To Ensure the Security of the Valuables..."

Treasure troves on this scale and this rich are once-in-a -lifetime finds. Now who will benefit from this multi-billion dollar stash?

Until the recent find, a trust of the old Travancore royal family had managed the "Sree Pad" temple for hundreds of years but now the Indian government has stepped in to "ensure the security of the valuables found." Right! This move has nothing to with money...noooooooo...not at all.

Got Me to Thinking

This "Sree Pad" temple thing got me to thinking (dangerous, by the way!). Maybe I should open up my own temple here in the U.S. where there would be reflecting pools for people to toss their jewelry and coins into and mailbox-type vaults where they could stuff their paid-off car titles and home mortgages.

Just a thought....

(My thanks to gold miner "Rattlesnake" Jim for passing this info along.)

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Gold Detector Reviews: Fisher's 'Gold Bug 2'"

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at jr872vt90@yahoo.com

Ohio's Lost Oak Tree Gold

(Location of Fairport Harbor, Ohio.)

$50,000 (Face Value) in Gold

There's a good possibility that $50,000 (face value) in gold remains buried beneath a large oak tree near Fairport Harbor, Ohio. Research suggests that this trove is composed of gold bullion bars with perhaps a few gold coins thrown in for good measure.

There is every reason to believe that Ohio's Lost Oak Tree Gold treasure legend exists and most importantly, very few people have searched for it over the past 100 years or so. $50,000 in gold was a huge haul for the time, but at today's spot gold price of nearly $1,478 per troy ounce this treasure trove would bring the finder a staggering $3,695,000! That could ease the associated pains of a failing U.S. economy for just about any of us.

A Large Oak on the West Bank of the Grand

Ohio's Lost Oak Tree Gold treasure trove came to be way back in 1862 after three criminals robbed a Canadian bank of its gold and then fled across Lake Erie with their loot. Once on the American side of the Lake near Fairport Harbor, greed took hold of these three thieves and they began arguing with one another about when, where, and how to divvy up the gold.

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This argument was abruptly settled when one of the three gunned down the other two on the spot. Wasting no time, he lugged the bullion off with him and buried it 3-feet down underneath a large oak tree growing on the west bank of the Grand River. He then fled the immediate area for obvious reasons.

Digging Beneath Oak Trees

Within the year this same robber and murderer was at death's door himself with a terminal case of respiratory disease in a Chicago sanatorium. Deciding to come clean before he crossed over the River Styx the robber confessed his crimes to the doctor in attendance and told him the general details of where the gold was buried.

(Kayakers on the Grand River near Fairport Harbor.) 

The good doctor wasted no time in departing Chicago for northeastern Ohio. Once at Fairport Harbor he began searching along the west bank of the Grand River, digging beneath each and every large oak tree he came across...alas, to no avail.

More Unsuccessful Hunts

Returning to Chicago the doctor related his tale of buried gold to a group of influential friends who raised money and a small expedition that returned to Fairport Harbor to find the gold bullion.They too were unsuccessful.

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In the first few decades immediately after the U.S. Civil War a number of erstwhile treasure hunters tried to locate the Lost Oak Tree gold stash, but were unsuccessful. As more time passed fewer searchers remained until virtually no one in the area even mentioned the trove any longer.

Remember, these old-time treasure hunters didn't have metal detectors, ground-penetrating radar, or magnetometers. Who knows? With a bit of research and the right tools for the job, you might just hit the "big one" on the west bank of the Grand River near Fairport Harbor.

Good hunting!

If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Waybill to Lost Gold in Utah's Henry Mountains (Part 3)"

(c)  Jim Rocha (J.R.)  2011

Questions? E-mail me at jr872vt90@yahoo.com