New Mexico Treasure

What a prospect!! To find millions in gold and jewels. An 82 year old man in New Mexico hid a chest that is valued in the millions of dollars. Hid it somewhere in New Mexico. The clues? A poem gives hints that could lead the fortunate one to it.

Though I often wish my brother David was still alive, now would be interesting. He was great at finding things out in the back country of New Mexico. Often he could find things that someone like me would walk right past, oblivious to it's presence. And did. He and I were walking, looking for "arrowheads" or what ever we may find. after several miles, he stopped and walked up to me. He reached down and right next to my foot, dusted the light sand and small gravel to the side and ...ta da... what apperaed to be a piece of pottery. He gingerly smoothed the sand and pebbles away and gradually a small pot appeared. The pot was more like a small bowl that would hold about 1.5 quarts liquid. It had beautiful and surprisingly vivid ancient drawing.

I can only imagine how he would be tromping all over the countryside searching for this treasure. I wiah I knew half of what he did about how to spot, recognize and recover ancient finds like those pots. By the way, he did get in legal trouble for finding and selling those same kind of pots to collectors. He did make some kind of deal that any pots found in the future, he would document, photograph and give location information to the UNiversity of New Mexico. Unfortunately, shortly after that, he was killed in a car accident.

My other brother , Fred is also a good outdoorsman. He lives in southern New Mexico and works on a ranch, sometimes for a drilling company and generally a Jack Of All Trades. He has guided hunters into the Gila Wilderness, taken tourists horseback riding in the Wilderness and packed supplies in and garbage out for forest firefighters when they were in too isolated of an area to get vehicles in to. I imagine if he were able , he would look when and  where he could.

I have looked at the poem and wondered about some of the places I am familiar with and would love to be able to go look. Sadly I have to stay and work here in Texas. I have only 7 more months to go till retirement. Perhaps if the treasure has not been found by the time I get to New Mexico, I will make a few excursions.

Well, it is time for me to close this and get back into the truck to finish my trip to DFW. I just wanted to waste a little time as to let some of the morning rush hour traffic die down in San Antonio then Austin. I have found that a half hour wasted before getting into traffic often saves frustration. Also, I would rather sit here for half an hour than be out there in the traffic for an extra half an hour. Several times I have gone on into the traffic and by the end of the run, will have arrived at the terminal the same time as if I had waited a bit.