Caretaker?s Gold

Caretaker?s Gold
 

Here is a lead that came out of a Lost Treasure magazine from May 1976. I must have thought it was worth looking into are I would not have keep it filed for 35 years. Its from Ruth Neil Fox in her own words.
In 1905, my mother and father homesteaded a ranch six miles from Grangeville, Idaho, on the old Adams Road. In 1916, they moved to town and hired Hiram More-house to stay at the ranch as care?taker and woodcutter.
Morehouse lived alone. He decided that paper money would be?come useless, so he converted each pay check into gold coins, put them into a tin box and buried it. He often said that he didn't want any?one to get his money.
Once when he moved from one cabin to another, he asked Dad to help him. The money was dug up and Dad moved it along with the caretaker's belongings in his wagon. Dad estimated that he had around $10,000 in the tin box.
He did not see where the old man reburied his money. Morehouse told Dad he would leave cash for his burial in his Bible. In the spring of 1920, following a hard' winter, a passerby discovered Morehouse dead. Dad went to the house, found $600 in the Bible and buried More-house as he had been requested to do. The tin box has never been found although many people have looked for it. You would have to get permission from the present landowner to search for it today.


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 Sounds like a good one to go looking for 
 Best of luck

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   i got a lead the other day from a land owner, except it was the old pioneer land owner of the same land that had buried his gold.  they're about to develop over the land where the cache is burried, so the land owner is telling me to tear it up and find anything i can before they start building on it.

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yeah, the best part of the lead is the land owner himself.  he has lived there his whole life and it was his relatives that settled the valley in the mid to late 1800's.  he said; "i know for a fact that there is gold buried there, that's not just some story...that is absolute fact. he buried 20 dollar gold pieces somewhere there, and if you can find it...tear it up, because they're going to develop the entire area."  the certainty from someone who has lived there their entire life is the best factual part.  no more than fifteen miles from him another guy who had lived in the area said that he knows for a fact that there is buried money at a house in his town.  while i was talking to him about it, he pointed at a white house across the street, and said that when the old man died, that his family literally tore the house apart looking for it, and were never able to find it.  it's high desert where i live and there is a hill in the backyard area of the house that has little cliff jut overhangs, and i think that the cache is up there somewhere.  i need to see if they would like for me to find their family treasure for them, but that house will be there longer than the pioneer homestead I'm working right now, the bulldozers are already starting to move in the place.  I'll let everyone know if i find anything or have any good leads.

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It sounds like your on a good lead. It could also be worth having a look after the bulldozer go through and peel back a couple of ft of dirt. As the gold could be down 2-3 ft?! good luck for the hunt 

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