Re: Mark this Cache off of your "To Do" List...
As mentioned above, horses were the main mode of transportation and the government needed to expand it military and getting horses for each soldier was needed, probably desperately for those times to expand government intervention, not just with outlaws, indians, and wars, etc, so think on that perspective.
On another note one need to think outside the box, IF it was me to hide the cache, I would have many options, especially if in a remote location. Under rocks, by trees, stone fence, yada, yada, yada, BUT, IF, I wanted to make sure it was nice and secure for many years to come later with less of a chance of ANYONE stumbling on it by accident, snooping around, yada, yada, I would dig a pond, (no one would expect anything unusual), find the middle of it and bury my stash of cache, then just wait for the pond to fill up with water. No one would ever suspect that anything would be there except just a depression filled with water.
Water can be pumped out at a later time, or eventually evaporate and not ever fill again. But with the surroundings it looks as though it gets rain pretty good.
I would also do as directed and keep searching, depending on your time frame to search, I would find a way to flip all those heavy rocks and boulders over. The bucket thing could be that maybe someone was looking for it as well, heard the story, didn't find anything and to keep from anyone else looking, shoot up an old bucket and bury it. As mentioned before the bucket doesn't look as though it just came out of the ground/dirt, (I am not saying it isn't true), just the fact that by looking at it sitting in the hole, the bullet holes would be stuck with dirt, (providing it had been buried for a period of time), and not be clean looking like it does. The wagon bolen looks as if it had been buried! The bucket is too clean like it had been sitting outside exposed to normal weathering over the years and was sitting around and people used it for target practice.
Interesting story though. I wished I had time to go out and search for cache and treasures, but between work and the Army crap I have no time. I am planning on doing several things this year that entails finding some cache, gold, silver, heck, anything worth finding!!!
I got a new plan for this year and it is going to start with personal issues that needs to be straightened out and get my share of what is due, then once that is done, I will also make plans this year to get to Alaska to find gold one way or another, I WILL MAKE IT TO ALASKA and I don't care how cold it is, but I am going to get and find me some GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!
