Posted on 03/10/2021 11:53:32 AM PST by Red Badger
Go for the gold? The U.S. government went for it.
FBI agents were looking for an extremely valuable cache of fabled Civil War-era gold — possibly tons of it — when they excavated a remote woodland site in Pennsylvania three years ago this month, according to government emails and other recently released documents in the case.
On March 13, 2018, treasure hunters led the FBI to Dent’s Run, about 135 miles (220 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, where legend has it an 1863 shipment of Union gold was either lost or stolen on its way to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia.
The FBI has long refused to confirm why exactly it went digging, saying only in written statements over the years that agents were there for a court-authorized excavation of “what evidence suggested may have been a cultural heritage site.”
In any event, the FBI says, the dig came up empty.
But the father-son duo who brought a small army of federal agents to the site remain convinced the FBI uncovered something there — and their lawyer, Bill Cluck, is still pressing the case, successfully suing for access to government emails about the dig.
Those documents, which Cluck provided to The Associated Press, show that federal law enforcement was indeed after buried treasure.
“We believe the cache itself is in the neighborhood of 3x5x8 (feet) to 5x5x8,” wrote K.T. Newton, an assistant U.S attorney in Philadelphia, in a 2018 email marked “Confidential.”
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“So your ingots do not say LYMAN, then.”
Lyman sells those little ingot molds, so saying “LYMAN” on the ingot doesn’t tell you what is in it.
When I sold my last house I left a note for the buyer. It was mostly some tricks and locations of different valves and such. A couple were in very unusual places.
I also left a couple points like “If you’re a republican, get used to your candidates losing.” and “I buried $20,000 somewhere in the backyard but forgot where.”
My neighbor told me they got a great laugh out of that one.
What the hell would the FBI have to do with a Civil War cache of gold? Comey looking to line his pockets and run off to Belize?
That’s funny! I’ll never go to Pennsyltucky...that’s just one on the list of many reasons!
Hilarious! And I know a joke that combines “republican” with buried “treasure”, although a different kind of republican. I’ll paste it in:
An old farmer lived alone in Ireland because his only son joined the rebellion and was in a British prison.
The old farmer wrote to his son: “You left me all alone and now it’s planting time and I have no one to help me spade the potato garden, so I’ll surely starve before the year is out.”
The son wrote back: “For God’s sake, don’t touch that garden, that’s where I buried all the guns!”
The next morning the man was dragged off to the police station while the police dug up his whole property looking for guns. But he was released when they didn’t find any.
The man wrote to the son: “You’ve made me look like a criminal and I’ve been humiliated me in front of the whole village. Now what am I supposed to do?”
The son wrote back: “Now plant your potatoes.”
But are rescued by Bigfoot
But upside down it says N A W Lambda 7.
That changes the meaning a lot.
In my garage, I have some ingots of each: LYMAN and some NAW Lambda 7.
Lee also makes ingot molds
“3x5x8 (feet) to 5x5x8” That’s about the size of a civil war era wagon box.
3 x 5 x 8 = 120 cu ft
1 cu ft of gold = 1,206 lbs
120 X 1,206 = 144,720 lbs -or- ~ 72 tons
That’s a lot of weight. A draft horse can pull 8,000 pounds (impressive!)
That 72 tons, would take ~18 “horse power” to pull.
Maybe the load was split up into multiple wagons?
Hah! Good story.
On mine the N in LYMAN is backwards.
Maybe the US did not need the gold anymore as the Legal Tender Act had been passed allowing Salmon P. Chase to print fake money for the Civil War.
After the War, Salmon Chase declared only Gold and Silver to again be legal tender, until FDR got in power.
Under what authority was the FBI there? Stolen goods transported and hidden?
“Cultural treasures?”
Do the Fat BoIs realize Democrats tore down and defaced hundreds of civil war statues and gravesites in the past couple of years and brushed it off.
Ping
yes they do.
One tip for using the muffin tins to make lead ingots is set it up on a angle so the lead has a taper on one side. Pliers can easily grip them with no slipping.
It makes they easier to handle when putting them back in your hot-pot. Dropping a ingot in the hot lead can spoil your whole day/week/month..
I mold fishing jigs and lures by the hundreds.
On mine the N in LYMAN is backwards.
= = =
Probably makes it Politically Correct.
So it does not say LY MAN.
Can’t have any MAN these days.
Hmmmmm LYWOMAN ingot molds available soon.
Or Trans molds, or self declaring.
I’d better watch out next time I go into the garage.
Ingots may revolt and make demands.
Great story!
I suspect something like that is going on here too, a treasure similar to the Lock Ness monster -- to excite tourists who might grow bored seeing Elk County's other great attractions:
He told me about how the “feds” came, seized his milk, and dumped it in the ditch to “raise prices”.
So Grandpa, being the cantankerous man he was, started smuggling milk to people that needed it.
He said they were never hungry in the 30’s, but very poor.
He also refused any money for things like CRP acres, terraces, or handouts. When Grandma signed him up for Social Security payments he cussed for WEEKS.
He was a certain breed of old German farmer that was very hard to live with. I miss him terribly
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