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Bell County Gold.
This story was of great interest.
Gold was found on the bank of Salado Creek in the early 1930's. I know as my
mother found some of it.
My mother was born in Salado in 1928. Her large family lived, and worked a
small farm between Salado and Prairie Dell Texas. As a young girl in the
early 1930's playing on the bank of the Salado Creek she saw a shining object
sticking out of a recent horse track in the mud.. As she looked closer
at the shiny object partially covered in mud she could not tell what the
object was. She took the shiny object home where her mother washed it and
cleaned it up. What they discovered was that she had found a
beautiful 20 dollar gold piece.
Once the coin was shown to my grandfather they returned to where the coin was
found. They checked the area, but found no additional coins on the
surface. They did not dig into the ground nor did they inform anyone of
their find. No one knew of any legends or buried treasure in the
area at the time so they just spent the money as any family would during those
hard times. In fact until reading this article today I was not aware of
the bags of coins buried. I had heard about the caves but had not heard
about the bags of coins buried along Salado creek.
Coincidence maybe, but I thought it was very interesting that four bags of coins
was supposedly buried in the same area.
I can honestly say that" gold was found in Bell County." and specifically along
the Salado Creek.
Thanks,
Joe Baker
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