I am trying to find the lead. Sorry for the delay. I will say the article doesn't say much more than I did if anything.
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Does anyone have a Kellyco treasure lead disk that they give away with their detectors? The story is on it. My disc was on my desk last week and I am thinking one of the guys that seems semi interested in getting a detector borrowed it. I read the story online before I got the disk, but I am having trouble finding it.
Found it and bought it. I amguessing since I bought it and I am including all the info it's OK to post here. If not let me know.
Lost Cache Of Ozark Gold
By Ray D. Rains
From page 15 of the May, 1976 issue of Lost Treasure
Copyright ? 1976 Lost Treasure, Inc. all rights reserved
An abandoned garden in Arkansas may have $20,000 in gold coins planted in it, but
permission to try to harvest this unusual crop may be difficult to get. I was allowed
by the owners to photograph the dilapi-dated old farmhouse in front of the garden,
but was denied permission to hunt for the treasure, which on todays collectors
market might be worth $200,000 or more.
The story concerning the buried
cache started in Mississippi where, in 1852, prosperous planter John Boggs decided
that the slave labor which had gained him wealth over the preceding 12 years was
immoral. He sold his land and slaves as a re-sult of his religious convictions and left
Mississippi. He headed for the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, where slavery was not
regarded as a necessity.
He settled on a farm a short dis-tance from what is today State High-way 16, about
10 miles north of Searcy. Tradition says that his for-tune had increased to nearly
$40,000 by the outbreak of the Civil War. He had developed and almost manic
obsession with gold, and refused to sell his cotton to anyone unless pay-ment was
made in gold. And the gold was all kept on the farm.
By the spring of 1862, Federal troops were frequenting the area, foraging
commodities from farms in northern White County. The strag-gling soldiers raided
ruthlessly, con-fiscating anything that could be turned into hard cash or provisions.
Boggs received more than his share of these indignities, he felt. First, he lost the
contents of his smokehouse and barn, along with two fat cows and two of his best
mules. But then, worst of all, three privates interrogated his wife ex-tensively about
his wealth. When he heard this, Boggs flew into a rage, cursing the soldiers and
threatening them until a captain struck him across the face with his quirt.
Realizing that his troubles were not over, Boggs was on the verge of mental
collapse. The soldiers stopped to camp less than a mile south of his farm. Still
fearful, he expected a visit from the raiders at any time that night. In an effort to
salvage his fortune, he proportioned his gold into containers, believed to have been
fruit jars, and prepared to bury them for safety. Unfortunately, darkness came
before he could fin-ish his task.
The night devastated the man. He hastily tried to bury the containers in the freshly
plowed garden and in his panic, strewed them about. In all probability, those which
he did
not bury in the sandy loam were far deeper than he later remembered. It was
thought that he lost track of at least half of the $40,000. The strain on him was so
great that for the rest of his life he was unable to cope with minimal problems.
For many years after the war it was reported that the old man was seen digging inand around the gar-den by lantern light. As the years passed, the digging declined.
But so far as neighbors knew, he never re-covered any of his lost gold.
The Boggs family sold the proper-ty. and in 1890 and on through the depression
years many unsuccessful attempts were made to recover the buried treasure. One
miserly old man bought the farm purposely to retrieve the hoard, but died defeated
in his purpose and several hundred dollars poorer.
Today, the ruins of the old house
stand peacefully in a grove of cedars near State Highway 305, a mile from State
Highway 16. The house is used as a hay barn. Perhaps its
destiny is more than a barn. Per-haps it is to guard the hiding place of John Boggs
golden hoard. Ray D. Rains
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I don't like how this forum keeps stacking the posts with no indication of it being a new post. Anyway Found some issues with story
SH 305 does not come within a mile of SH 16. Need to find a 1976 AR road map because I think maybe something got crossed up in the story.
SH 305 runs between SH 31 and SH 36 south and west of Searcy. If you travel west on SH 36 from 305 the next SH is 310. SH 310 does end at SH 16 at about the 10 mile mark from Searcy. At about 1 mile from the road I can see what I think is a cedar stand.
I know a few people that live in this area. I am going to see if I can get more info over the next few months. I have to amke a trip home soon to take my Mom for a plane ride. I think I will do some crusing in the area. We usually fly 16 to Heber Spring anyway.
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