HIDDEN TREASURE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3147, 11 December 1922, Page 2

HIDDEN TREASURE.

In North America there are three great areas where much treasureminted coin, gold and silver, plate, family jewels, etc.— remains buried in the ground (says a writer in ( numbers Journal). Again and again a larmei tomes jutoss such 1 1 CtU'hc when ploughing. In each of these areas it has been war that brought about the sudden concealing of family fortunes. During the War ol Secession there was much plotting by the Fedora Is and the Confederates alike. When General Sherman effected his famous march to the sea. plantation-owners, and many of the towns north and south of and along the line of his most devastating operations, buried their money and l valuables for fear of confiscation by tli(> Federals. The havoc done by the military, fires bringing‘about the disappearance of tbo landmarks indicting the sites of the caches, the damage done bv heavy weather, and the death, of those concerned, all. combined against relocation of the treasures. The second great area was stocked in much the same way. When Washington, in the. War of independence, turned the hostilities in favor of the Americans, tlio rich Royalists from New Jersey to tlie Maine were taken by surprise. Many of them, finding it was too late to get their family treasures and (’ashboxes safely away, confined them to the soil, and lied —like many a Russian nobleman in IDI7. In the majority of instances they were not recovered. In Connecticut arc several families who owe their sudden rise in the world to finds of Royalist family possessions. A notable instance was the recovery of Lord Edmeston's china a lew years ago. A farmer’s plough uncovered the wooden case containing it. Rocanso ol its rare quality and design it brought him a fortune.

The third great area owes its caches to the same reason —war. In the Mar of Independence, and to a larger extent in the RM.2-14 hostilities between Britain and tbe Foiled State's, many (’.•“•lilies of British sympathies in