Elkhart (IN) Weekly Review, April 1, 1908, p. 6.
WHEEL TURNS UP TREASURE
Stone Moved in a Farm Road Uncovers $22 in Gold
Nashville, Ind., March 30-John Helms, near Elkinsville, while driving up a
steep hill on his farm with a load of logs, had his attention directed to
pieces of decayed cloth and a peculiar stone that the wheel had turned over,
and he picked up $22 in gold. The road traversed by Helms is through "new
ground," the soil being mellow. The money was unearthed near an old decayed
log, and the stone had evidently been placed over the coin.
On the stone were several peculiar marks. A few years ago a sack containing
$87 in gold was unearthed by a plow in the Elkinsville neighborhood. These
coins bore dates ranging from 1838 to 1879.