Bulloch County GaArchives News.....Finds Money in the Soil... June 20, 1901
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Athens Daily Banner June 20, 1901
Finds Money in the Soil.  A South Georgian Makes a Rich Find in Bulloch county 
and Fortune Telling Was at the Bottom of It.

Buried Treasure Dug Up in Georgia

There is no need to go to California, Colorado or even to North Carolina to 
hunt for gold.  It has been unearthed right here in Bulloch county.  One man, 
W.W. Brannen, is no less than $30,000 better off today than yesterday and he 
found it right hirer in the soil of this county.  Mr. Brannen is a prosperous 
farmer of the Laston district.  He has had a repeated premonition that he 
would one day be a rich man.  He chanced to drop into a fortune tellers place 
of business while in Savannah and this sage of the occult told him that on his 
place in Bulloch county at the end of a certain old milldam, was buried a 
large amount of money.  Brannen quietly went to digging around this old mill 
site, searching for the hidden treasure.

TOLD BY THREE GIRLS

In the meantime a young married woman living near him found that she possesses 
the power of mesmerism.  She happened one day to get one of Brannen’s little 
girl under her influence.  While in that state of mind the little girl said 
that there was on her father’s place, at a certain spot, a large pot of gold 
buried.  Brannen renewed his efforts.  He was laughed at by his neighbors, 
but, to make matters doubly sure, this woman of mesmeric powers got another 
little girl from another community, who had not heard of the gold story at All 
and while under the spell, she, too, told the story of the fabulous sum of 
money buried at the same place.  A third girl repeated the same prophecy that 
gold would be found at that particular place.

Brannen continued digging, and yesterday struck a pot of ante-bellum, mold 
which contained $30,000 in gold coin.   When or by whom this treasure was laid 
away nobody knows, nor does Brannen care, now that he has the laugh on his 
friends and neighbors.

The community is wild over the find.  And now that the prospects for crops are 
so poor, the people will spend the rainy days, when they can’t plow, in 
digging for valuables, hidden probably in the early sixties to keep the 
Yankees from getting them.

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Abstracted from: Athens Daily Banner, June 20, 1901; pg. 1.  Ga Virtual Vault

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