INCREDIBLE COCOS: LOOT FROM LIMA sold L) A family outing For trenture in the sand bills of Wert Texas""—Sea pare 4 LOST ALABAMA SILVER - LOST DENIM GOLD PENNSYLVANIA'S BRITISH COLONIAL CACHE LOST GOLD LEDGE OF LA BARGE CANYON‘ean the nce ruler Atala (nics, irate dem evel a wa x picture THE $63 MILLION INCA LOOT THAT LANDED in WEST TEXAS a 1920, Frank D, Olmstead, a wealthy Tlinois farmer and oil field lease hound, sccuiced two ar cient mips, from an old Spanish in California as a waybill 10 ‘ nee million treasure cache in ewall County, Texas. When he By XANTHUS CARSON started our on a 28-yearlonn belea- inverted quest, he had no ied, that the trexsure sought on the Salt Fork of the Brazos River was worth much more than the ancieat may indi- cated, ‘But authorities have said thar this treasure, if found today, would be worth at fewer ten times that Neither wea the hur ends jase treaaure hur aware that lene mutineering had caused this portion of the rs Seon le ‘An Illinois man spent 28 years of his life searching ‘Stonewall County, Toxas, for an awesome 400-year-old | treasure of emoralds, idols and 40 jack-loads of gold and silver. He did not find it, but perhaps you can " December, 1976$63 Miillion ........ ached in the wilds of a land that became the great West Texas that we know today. ‘The highly reputable Illinois cit ize, whose unblemished pioneer fatnily backeround extended back vo the wilderness days of 1790, knew one thing, however—he was obsess- ed with dreams of unearthing the incredible cache of precious Thea idols and a lama caravar-load of fold and silver ingots valuable te- ond imagination, Because of ercedy mutineess, the hoard eseaped the rich coffers of Spain, a matter that has been made known to us by an fe nace “Thins lteonn uch a these besvaht Franctcs Pinaro and hit conguistaderee ee 1s South Americas tating the comguest of the Ince nation” ‘only resources. that tused, during his unigue treasure seach were tro old Spanish maps, some picks and shovels, blasting powder, and lots af guts. Metal de- fectors Such as treasure hunters use today were practically: unknown and cettainly not used throughout his Retrial eaaitts foe the. Scemerall Gounty Inca, loot. ‘Therefore, we hay well understand that the man's Incredible quest was not decisive, and that the loot remains vet to be found. When the search began, Olm. stead was not an old man, bewhisk ered and bedrageled as one might suspect as the result of a cumultous career in the mine camps, Tnstead. he was middle-aged, really in the prime of life, posseseed of extreme stamina, well-educated and bearing the title of “professor” as be ent cred the field of treasure hunting Throaghour his treasure-hunting career he, received the Saturday Evening Post and several weekly news masizines as his reading ma, terial, He lived by the teachings of the Holy Won, and as research dis- closes, was a crit to, the most re spected ideals of the human race His wife Mabel was also -vealthv and. equally enthusiastic, about the treastire they sousht, and supported her hushand in the ‘Texas venture They had no children, All alone. bat with a virtually unlimited checking account, they determined to “make a coal million And they declared rather openly that just one of the tiags in the treasure cache they sought was worth this “coo! million!" 2 ‘This sate of Franclage Plnarte ust arected in the Lima Plass de Armas, 40, jack-londs Teting Wa snprecedented. (and. bloady) sezamplishreenty in Panu and’ South an emerald as ‘America. Phate ix courtery of Ruth Jansen. Opites setting coments of se cache included of gold and sive 16 Lost Treasure