BURIED TREASURE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 April 1928, Page 8

BURIED TREASURE

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£12,000,000 INVOLVED, Jesuits’, buried treasure, £12,000,000 of it in piecoy of eight, silver and diamonds, and all guarded by an authentic, and comprehensive curse, is the plot, nut of a new novel of adventure, but ol the prospects issued in connection with the flotation on the London market of the* Sacambaya Exploration Company. ... The company is capitalised at £25,000, and is described in good faith as not an investment but a speculation. But such a speculation! It hinges on the historical fact of the deportation of the Jesuits front Bolivia by the Spanish Government. The Jesuits, working their gold mines, had accumulated a treasure of about £12,000,000, A s they weio not allowed to take it out of the country, they concealed it in secret chambers dug in a hill opposite the abandoned Jesuit monastery at Plazuela, on the •Sacambaya River near La Paz. Father Gregorio San Roman, one of the deported Jesuits, imparted the secret to his brother, the prefect of Callao, Peru. The prelect handed this document to bis son, Ladr, a president of Peru, lie in turn to his daughter, Bona Oarina, and she to Cecil Herbert Prodger, an Englishman well known in South America, who iu a book about this adventure in. Bolivia, describes his search for the treasure in 1926. Following the instructions in .Father Gregorio’s document he found a silver crucifix and then a wooden casing containing parchment. The latter contained a warning translatable : “You who reach this place withdraw. This spot is dedicated to God Almighty, and for one who dares to enter, a dolorous death awaits him in this world and eternal condemnation in the world lie goes to. These riches that belong to God, our Master, are not for humans. Withdraw and you will five in peace.” Mr. Prod gets made the mistake of reading this to. his native workers, whereupon they promptly downed their tools, and, as the rainy season was approaching, the project had to be. abandoned. The Sacambaya. Company is being organised to prosecute it further, aided by pneumatic drills, compressors, hoists, pumps, caterpillar tractors and engineers. Sir Denison -Ross, the greatelst living authority on such matters, dedal'-, ed that Father Gregorio’s parchment genuinely belongs to. the period in which it is supposed to have originated. The property on which the treasure is situated has been acquired from its rightful owner. All that remains is to find the treasure and receive as a return 160 times the Mini invested. Meanwhile the investor is afforded rare opportunity to indulge in dreams recalling the authentic boyhood thrill of “Treasure Island.” There is, of course, the curse to be risked, but it is well known that a corporation has Uq soul, and therefore none to lose.