The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, November 18, 1904, Image 1
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HIDDEN TREASURE
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chesters.
The people of a large part o;
Western Texas are wildly excitec
by rumors of the discovery 01
the famous "lost" silver mine:
of the San Saba, and the recovery
of immense treasures froir
the old ruins in the vicinity oi
Menardville. Thousands of dollars
have been spent and man>
valuable lives lost during the
past century in searching for a
silver mine said to be a veritable
bonanza and for treasures valued
at more than $1,000,000, which,
tradition says, the Spaniards concealed
in Fort San Saba while
the place was besieged by Indians.
It is written in the histories
taught in the public schools
of Texas that the Spaniards discovered
a wonderful silver mine
in the San Saba mountains, which
they worked for several years.
cv In their eagerness to accumulate
great wealth the avaricious
r?ndr*?e *?r>alnvf?d fV?A Tnrlianc tliov
had collected to civilize, and
forced them to labor in the
mines. At a time when a long
train of burros was packed with
silver bars ready to start to Mexico,
the savages revolted, killed
their overseers and guards, and
rushing to the gate of the fort
they fought the sentinels with
the fury of demons, but were
driven back. The news of the
revolt spread over the plains, and
a vast horde of wild Comanchies
flew to the aid of their kindred
and quickly formed a living cordon
of avenging warriors around
the walls of the doomed fortitlHistory
has no story to tell of
the desperate conflict that must
have raged for several days, for
not a living soul of the whites
escaped. A few facts were afterwards
gleamed from some of the
enslaved Indians. Many years
passed before white people dared
to venture into the beautiful val
ley. Those who first visited the
place were amazed at the evidences
of the stubborn battle
that had been fought. The whole
face of the earth for the distance
of a rifle shot about the walls
was literally covered with cannon
balls, broken muskets,
twisted bayonets, swords, pistols,
knives and arrow points. A
great many such things remain,
mingled with the dust, even at
this late day. At widely separated
periods during the earlj
years of the past century venturesome
explorers from Mexicc
and the settled portions of Texas
risked their lives among the
fierce Comanches, searching foi
the hidden treasures and lost
mines of the San Saba.
Texas is indebted to the tra
ditions and stories concerning
the mysterious affair for the ser
vices of one of the most heroi<
>. HpfpnHprs. nnH t.hp mnct momnva
ble page of h6r history. James
Bowie, who fell at the Alarm
came to the Lone Star country
from his home in Louisiana t<
search for the famous lost mine
and the silver bars concealed b>
the old padres. He collected i
company of Indian fighters ii
San Antonio, and led them int<
* - the heart of the Comanche coun
try. In 1832 he reached th<
walls of San Saba and carved hi;
name and the date of his arriva
on one of the great rtoue pillar
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of the gateway.
The Indians swarmed about the \
* (brave adventurer and his little <
>! band, and they were forced to \
-: fight every inch of their way ,
(back to the Alamo. Not many v
. years ago several old Mexicans s
could be found about San Antonio j
y who well remembered the Bowie |
_ expedition, and they were lirmlv .
| convinced that the "brave Ameri- ^
" cano" rediscovered the lost mine c
or found great treasures. It was ^
a common story that Colonel y
f Bowie came to Texas without t
1 any capital, but it was stoutly a
f maintained that after his return J
3 from San Saba he had money to g
- throw away. He shod his favor- ^
1 ite warhorse with silver, and he a
I soon married a beautiful Spanish ?
lady, celebrating the event with n
r the lavish hospitality of a mil- e
; lionaire. q
After the Texans made Settle- y
s ments in the West they continued ^
I the search for the lost mine and f
hidden wealth. Every few years v
the excitement would break out a
with renewed intensity. Maps, j,
histories and old archives in ^
Mexico and Spain were patiently c
i searched, companies were formed ^
and mining experts imported j1
from California. In some in- n
stances fortune tellers and clair- p
voyarrts-were consulted and not ^
a few costly contrivances called
diving roAif J, P
Spanish needles, were carried
over mountains and ruins by men ^
j who were ashamed 'to say they
pursued such methods. The ^
courses of rivers were changed,
j steam engines were transported C(
across the plains to drain lakes .
and drill shafts, the earth was
dug over for miles in every di- g;rection,
and many people impov- n
| erished themselves in this reck- .
I laao oao OlltTAM lVf AV?tT I
I 1UOO ocai V/U iwi on v ci many rr
'curiosities, some valuable ore,
! and a few bars of silver have
been found, and it looked as if
nothing could have escaped the
careful scrutiny of so many peo- ,1
plft, with their eyes on th? earth,
and always digging, for more
than half a century. But within p
the past few weeks new features ^
j have been added to the old theo- P
ries. Something of great value
jhas certainly been found, and as j1
a consequence, the present excitement
exceeds all former ones. P
Arms have flashed in the sunlight
and treasure hunters are Y
i threatening each other with in- *
junctions and other legal pro- u
ijceedings. There is certainly
i j some basis for the present furore, F
!1 though it is difficult to obtain the "
i facts. Enough is known to jus- F
tify the belief that a plucky J
young lady has made discoveries *
of no ordinary character, and c
. probably uncovered the long t
sought silver bars in the ruins of ?
; San Saba. Beyond question, at ^
least one man has blundered upon 1
r something that he can easily ex
change for several thousand dol- *
> lars, provided he can maintain N
i his hold.
j Miss Alice Ney, who has con- *
r ducted operations among the ]
; mysterious ruins, is a Texas girl *
who hns hpcnrrw* rlnonltr inir?r?r?aJ-r?(1 I I
-1 in the antiquities of her native *
f| State- Well educated, full of j
- j enthusiasm, an I possessing ample '
: i means, she employed a small y
-1 force of laborers and personally '
31 superintended the work. Her 1
) investigation excited a little more i
j than the umal comments until a !
> short time ago, when something
, | happened which set the old 1
f treasure-hunters of the valley '
i. wild with excitement. A laborer
i' who had been in Miss Ney's em- !
:>1 ploy went to Fort McKarrett and
r (while under the influence of lis
l quor he offered to sell three
a! "little heathen gods," as "he
J j called them. He said that they
9 came into his possession while he
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was serving in the^ BrmS!Tn*wp
in India. These c^Hp^jVieaJirtally
fell into the haridfcji^ a local
jeweler, whoinstaqpy recogniped
their resemblance to tjte IgoQB
found in the ruins of Mexico; ahfjk
he suspected they contained considerable
proportion of goh&
mixed with copper. He hurri6a
to his office, where a few simpta
tests revealed the startling fact
that th? little gods were vera
nearly pure goia, worth BonlS
$8,000 or $10,000, basing an esm
mate upon their weight.
When the laborer who h^cy
thrown away a fortune became*;
sufficiently inebriated the. trfotflt
zame uppermost in his piindjjjflj
ic confessed that''"he
golden gods in the
!!aba. Promptly the
spread over the valley
)ody ran to gaze upon the gorafe|
fods and dream of hiddemirgflT
ires and lost mines. Soon veiW
;trange stories were in circuho]
ion. Many people confidently
jelieved that the energetic TexaW
jirl had already found the greaB
reasure in silver bars, whichj?
Spanish writers say the padjHr
juried hefnrp thp m n a a o *? w*
lad been noticed tl\at
ipon one occasion, sulooWW
itopped worked
ather and two brothers, whorafl
ide some 70 miles away. WheH
he old gentleman and his sonla
ppeared, they brought a largA
reight wagon, drawn by sin
pules. It was noticed that th?l
ntire party was well armedJ
)nly a short time passed beforu|
he big mule team made a trim
o Colonel Ney's ranch, starting
rom the ruins at midnight. Th$l
/heels cut deep into the sand; |
nd while people were wonder*!
ig and guessing concerning
eavily loaded wagon, a reliaWS
itizen appeared in towft witlljH
ar of silver, which he isaid Bfl
ad picked up between the tracjfie
lade by the mysterious wag<nf
eople no longer entertained
oubt as to the success theiflKlfll
e* i ?* t'^r-T
rers. V
The treasure hunters expected
) meet opposition on the part ol
liss Ney and her people, but tc
leir surprise they found the
oung lady very amiable ana
^urteous. She was just ready
> leave the place, "We are golg
to abandon the exploration," ,
he said; "and I hope you win be
lore fortunate than I lEive
een," she added with a smile,
he big mule team had returned
rom the ranch. The wagon
/as heavily loaded, and what-(
ver it contained was covered*
/ith a tarpaulin upon which sat
he two brothers with Winchesers
across their knees. No
erson was allowed to raise even
little corner of the sheet. Afar
kindly parting greetings, the
levs set out towards their ranch
i the Southern part of the State,
saving the impression upon the
linds of all those who stood'
coking after them that they
/ere carrying away the second
)ad of the famous hidden treasres
of San Saba.
Long "before Miss Ney comnenced
her explorations she visted
the ruins, making several
hotographs and afterwards
writing an article on the subject
or a Texas periodical. She
laimed that she had found in
he archives of Monclava an ac:ount
of an expedition made to
>an Saba by one, Captain Perez,
n 1833. Perez stoutly maintain-1
:d that he had actually seen the
reasure in the ruins. They were
vorking at night, and just as
hey were about to lift the glit;ering
bars from the excavation,
Perez says, the stars began to
?all from the heavens. His
people fled to camp, declaring
;hat the old padres pursued
;hem, hurling balls of fire at
dieir heals. Interpreting this
vonderful occurrence as a mani
testation ot uivine wratn, rerez
ordered the excavation covered,
and ho returned to Mexico. It
is evident from the date opposite
liis name on the stone pillar at
the gate, that he made his discovery
on that memorable night
when the earth passed through a
great shower of meteors, called
"the great star-falling night."
Perez insisted that San Saba was
once a great city occupied by an
ancient-race." He said that the
Spanish mission was built on the
ruins of an old temple, under
which the***? were numerous subterranean
vaults. He dug into
i these, finding many curiosities
and several small golden gods.
^ Aside from the interest that
Attaches to San Saba on accouut
Kits mysterious history, the coJ^jsal
ruins are of deep imporlafijie
to all students of archaeology.
The valley was evedently at
SOme remote period thickly
industrious race of
Who were slov^y solving
t|w problems of civilization. A
hffcst expanse of territory was
Inhder a nigh state of cultivation,
Knd the fields were matured by a
m network of canals easily traced
Pto-day. A great dam, composed
fcf large, partially dressed stones,
[had been thrown across the rivler,
and the waters of the whole
"stream could have been turned
Into this artificial waterway,
which was of sufficient depth and
width to have floated a modern
steamboat for several miles.
The walls which, Miss Ney |
thinks, only enclosed the sacred ,
temple and the palaces of the
royal families, are four feet thick I
af t nn Koon 4-^v I
>?v vut uaotj i.a|jci IW UUC iUUl
in width at the top, six feet from
the ground. The whole structure
is in the form of a perfect square,
tfrfclosing about eight acres,
numerous mounds of stone and
Bin-dried brick, scattered over
be valley for several miles about
j^walls are regarded as strong
ftmony in support of the
Lvhcory that a 0t?at. city existed
Bent the fortifloations, which
Spas perhaps used in times of
Keril as a citadel. The great
None pillar upon which both
Rpwie and Perez carved their
pmes is 10 feet high, nearly 9
Jfeet across the top, and 4 feet
Buck. It was quarried many
&fes from its present position.
pprVlSES FARMERS
I TO HOLD COTTON.
B?> A>rW _ " "I" - JSaiianolar.
i^Tofton Crop?Bears
J Under Estimate Crop
in Order to Depress
Prices.
Harvie Jordan, president of
?he Southern Cotton Growers'
protective Association, professes
ttf believe that the farmers are
n6t receiving what they deserve
for their cotton, and in order
that they "may come into their
own" he advises them to hold
their cotton until prices gahigher.
His argument is found in the
following letter, which has been
addressed to the cotton growers
of the south:
Up to the present time the cotton
producers from North Caro
Una to the Brazos river, Texas,
have generally stood firm by
holding a part of their cotton and
refusing to throw it upon the
market at prices under ten cents
a pound. With the most determined
elforts on the part of the
bear speculators and other combinations
formed to depress
prices the market has only been
forced to drop 50 points below
our minimum price, during the
month ip which most of the
farmer obligations fall due, and
an unprecedented season for
gathering and ginning the crop.
The ginners' report issued October
25th indicated that a little
more than 5,000,000 bales of the
present crop had been ginned,
while Secretary Hester's report
for the same time indicated that
only about 2,000,000 bales had
been marketed showing that
more than 20 per cent of the crop
was being held in the hands of
j the producers. If only 5,000,000
1 and a quarter bales had been
ginned up to October 15th it must
be clear to every farmer that the
high estimates placed upon the
crop by the bear element of
speculators will never materialize.
They are using the same
devices adopted last year to break
the nerve of the producers. Note
their figures of last year compared
with the facts: Mr. Theodore
Price, on September 28,
1903, issued a circular estimating
the crop for 1903 to be 11,744,755
Uol^cs A T T)iiof-Ar? f Un nnlnnn
?/aico. xi. ?J . ii.ioiuii, u'ic
I car statistician of Liverpool, Eng!
land, on October 28,1003, figivred
the crop at 11,250,000 bales, Neil
I Bros., of England estimated the
crop on November 21, 1003, a!
t F. M. FARR, President,
t :
Merchants and Pla
Successfully Doing Bus
Ih the OLDEST Hank t
ftj has a capital ami snrpl
C 3 Is the on'v N *TION A I
rl has paid dividends i
U f*5 pays FOU It par cent,
fj J Is tho only Hunk In U"
M has liurKlar Proof van
W W pays more tuxes than >
WE EARNESTLY SOL
11 000 000 vinloo it r* n . *.
?7 7,?ivu uuu ix. v/. \jrurot>
of Liverpool, on the same date
issued an estimate fixing jjthe
yield at 11,430,000 bales. Now
let us look at the estimates of
disinterested parties. The United
Stated Department of Agriculture
on December 3, 1903, issued
its estimate fixing the yield at
9,962,039 bales. The southern
states' commissioners of agriculture
in convention at Montgomery,
Ala., October 9, 1903, estimated
the crop at 10,471,000
bales. Now, let us see what was
the actual crop, We find that
the actual commercial crop of
1903-04 amounted to 10,011,374
oales. Note the comparison of
bear estimates and government
estimates. The United States
Department of Agriculture was
under the actual figures only
49,000 bales. The commissioners
on agriculture overestimated
the crop 460,000 bales while
Theodore Price missed it 1,734,000
bales, and the rest of the bear
element all the way from a mil-!
lion to a million and a half bales. I
Mr. Price is pursuing the same
course this season and calling
upon the farmers everywhere to
dump their cotton on the market
so as to depress prices and let
Mr. "Bear" Price coin his millions
at the expense of hundreds
^f thousands of producers in the
Tfie recent estimate^ TTRr
southern commissioners of agriculture
in convention at Baton
Rouge, La., October 22, figured j
the crop for this season at 10,171,000
bales. Mr. Theodore
Price and other bear speculators
figure the crop at 12,000,000
bales. The commissioners of i
agriculture overestimated the!
crop 460,000 bales last year and |
the indications are that their;
present estimate is not far from |
wrong. Even if the crop should
reach 11,000,000 bales the world
wants every bale of it and the
spinners are better able to pay
high prices this season than last,
because yarns have advanced 3
cents per pound this season and
a heavy demand for cotton goods
exists.
I therefore call upon the producers
throughout the south to
stand firm and refuse to sell their
cotton at present prices. Heavy
receipts depress the market.
The speculators have sold millions
of bales for a future delivery
and they want to buy that
cotton for less money than the
staple is actually worth. The
producers should demand from
11 to 12 cents for the balance of
the crop. They are in a position
to force prices up by selling the
staple slowly. Debts have been
paid as a rule, and there is no
longer absolute necessity of rushing
our cotton on the market.
The merchants and bankers of
the south should encourage slow
selling because the prosperity of
the producers makes prosperity
certain in all other avenues of
trade in the south. We will not
make a bumper crop; most of
the staple has been gathered and
ginned. Let us determine to
stand firmly together the balance
i of the season and force the bear
speculators to cover. The present
price of cotton is too low and
T nro-p pvorv nrrvhioor to refuse
? %r ?'*
to sell until the market properly
readjusts itself. Have no fear
that cotton will be worth less ir
the future than now. Those whe
hold will eet better prices wher
the speculators are forced to pa>
it. The producers are now stand
, inK firm but the speculators ant
spinners hope to break then
. nerve and cause a general rusl
I on thg markets in the near future
[ Let us prove to the world * tha
. southern farmers can assert an<
maintain their rights in the fac<
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J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier.
FT 33?:
nters National Bank,
%
iness at the "Old Stand."
n Union,
us of $10\000,
I. I tin: k in Union,
nountinK to $^00 400,
interest on donosits.
ion iiisnoctt-ii by un olTloer,
lit. :in<l Sitfo with Tt'nc-i.,'?k.
M.r. the Hanks in ITnion coinblir d.
JCIT YOUR BUSINESS. |
of the strongest combinations
ever organized to depress the
price of cotton. Pay no atteni
tion to the bumper crop estimates
i and let the buyers of our staple
understand that the. balance of
| this crop can be purchesed at
prices between 10 and 12c a
pound. Store your cotton at
j home under good cover and keep
i it safe from the weather.
If money is needed store a part
'of your cotton in local warehouses
and use the receipts as
collateral to borrow money from
your local banks. Don't sell any
cotton at present prices merely
to follow the old plan of selling.
By holding your cotton the ad'
vance in prices later will pay a
heavy interest on the investment,
when no interest will be secured
; if you sell now and deposit the
money in the bank. Insure your
cotton, whether stored at home
or in a warehouse, and take no
risks, where risks are likelv to
be incurred. Let us sell "this
crop for at least $700,000,000 and
put general prosperity among the
farmers of the south.
O
TALKING ABOUT PEACE.
Japan Shows Willingness
London, Nov. 11.?The dispatch
of the Associated Press
from Washington confirming the
statement made in these dispatches
that Japan had indicated
her willingness to entertain peace
suggestions from President
Roosevelt or King Edward created
much interest here. Baron
Hayashi, the Japanese minister,
said to-day:
"After the fall of Port Arthur
Japan would, I believe, be ready
to treat for peace on no higher
! essential basis than that Russia
should evacuate Manchuria, the
| Japanese also agreeing to a similar
evacuation. The two great
' difficulties in the way of any sug1
gestion of peace are first, the
1 Qnnnronf nomaifinn r\-F TT. mniw.'
iv j/ v* & v_/11 v tivi * VX XJ11IWV/1 V/l
Nicholas's present advisers to a
settlement of any kind; second,
the preservation of Russian prestige.
When a nation's prestige
if not gone, is severely impaired,
| it is a difficult matter even with
the best of intentions to preserve
it."
The Associated Press learns
that Queen Alexandra has been
in constant communication with
the Dowager Empress of Russia
and Emperor Nicholas himself
during the last few days. This
is interpreted here as a hopeful
sign, and as possibly, likely to
lead, though not in the immediate
future, to the establishment of
some modus vivendi whereby
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| siuys iwMiiy, lu uruivJTHUun rni^nt
i bo initiated without offence to
J Russia.
The reiteration of the American
State departments determi'
nation not to intervene except on
i requests from both of the bel>
liferents tallies with the official
I attitude of the British Govern.
rnent, but it is thought that be1
fore long some method may prir
vatcly be devised whereby this
1 diplomatic barrier to action will
1 be overcome.
*1 Read the Big Ad. of the Culp
2 Land Sale on 8th page.