Bowie Mine Searchers Found Spanish Silver Shaft - Menard in central Texas - 1909

[Texas Jay]

From the Abilene Daily Reporter, November 18, 1909. Menard, Texas used to be called Menardville. People often look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them that this area of central Texas holds more lost treasure than any other section of the U.S. But I'm not crazy. I've been studying the subject and conducting field work for my entire life.

~Texas Jay

 

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[Puff the Tragic Wagon]

From the Abilene Daily Reporter, November 18, 1909. Menard, Texas used to be called Menardville. People often look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them that this area of central Texas holds more lost treasure than any other section of the U.S. But I'm not crazy. I've been studying the subject and conducting field work for my entire life.

~Texas Jay
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So where’s the treasure? All I’m seeing is skeletons. 🤔

 

[pepperj]

So where’s the treasure? All I’m seeing is skeletons. 🤔

Your eyes are better than mine.

All I see is a copy if an old news clipping.
(I agree, just adding a little 🙂)

 

[Puff the Tragic Wagon]

Your eyes are better than mine.

All I see is a copy if an old news clipping.
(I agree, just adding a little 🙂)

You are correct, I don’t actually “see” the skeletons, just the clipping. My query was regarding the OP’s statement implying this clipping somehow supports his claim “that this area of central Texas holds more lost treasure than any other section of the U.S.”.
Hence my question, where’s the treasure? I see no mention of treasure in the clipping.

Maybe the clipping itself is the treasure? 🤔

 

[pepperj]

You are correct, I don’t actually “see” the skeletons, just the clipping. My query was regarding the OP’s statement implying this clipping somehow supports his claim “that this area of central Texas holds more lost treasure than any other section of the U.S.”.
Hence my question, where’s the treasure? I see no mention of treasure in the clipping.

Maybe the clipping itself is the treasure? 🤔

I hope it's not what we old guys call "click bait".
It could be one if those hypothetical things where it's there.
But their over there, and can't get there.
So they're posting the facts of it being over there.

That must be it, the mine is just over there, but they can't get there.
I'll mark this one solved (for the moment)

 

[Puff the Tragic Wagon]

I hope it's not what we old guys call "click bait".
It could be one if those hypothetical things where it's there.
But their over there, and can't get there.
So they're posting the facts of it being over there.

That must be it, the mine is just over there, but they can't get there.
I'll mark this one solved (for the moment)

Actually, I think you got it right with “clickbait”, as the thread title says they found a “Spanish silver shaft”, but nowhere does it state that. Just that they had a bunch of “Mexicans” reopening an old mine shaft. Nothing about silver, nothing about treasure.

All hat and no cattle.

 

[pepperj]

Actually, I think you got it right with “clickbait”, as the thread title says they found a “Spanish silver shaft”, but nowhere does it state that. Just that they had a bunch of “Mexicans” reopening an old mine shaft. Nothing about silver, nothing about treasure.

All hat and no cattle.

Here's a strange one.
I was wondering when the OP was last
Online.
He left before he posted the thread.

 

[Puff the Tragic Wagon]

Here's a strange one.
I was wondering when the OP was last
Online.
He left before he posted the thread.

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Hmmm 🤔

Obviously he spoke before he thought. 😉

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[AusTexDude]

That permission I just got is in San Saba in a small ghost town called Harkeyville