Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 7

April 6, 1949 Page Seven ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Alice, in a mining venture in th San Andres Mountains. Predicts Larger Mrs. Noes admits that Doc Noss Two Die Violently In Treasure Hunt Car Registration and Ryan applied for a prospecting permit covering the treasure- VE Aoril 5 (JP) With 9g STORE HOURS: 9 P. M. THIS SATURDAY AT THE ARMORY cave's location out found tnat Mrs.

Noss already had obtained atF motor vehicle registrations of it from the state land office. Doc and Ryan worked on tracts Continued from Fae On Mrs. Noss believes, "might be that of Padre LaRue." bordering three sides of her loca 133,273 througn iviarcn zz, jvukc Gallegos, motor vehicle commissioner, today predicted registrations of 200,000 for 1949. Gallegos said registrations this year are 22,705 above the same tion, Mrs. Noss said.

Last month Doc Noss 'and Ryan A widely-know legend has it became involved in an argument that in the late years of the Spanish occupation a priest named Easter Outfits made to fit the Family Budget! at Hatch. Noss was shot and killed and Ryan is under $25,000 bond for district court trial in Dona LaRue. stationed at Chihuahua, Ana County at the May term learned from a dying friend of a fabulously-rich goid-bearing lode iho mountains two hard days' The shooting occurred only a day after Noble was fatally injured and Beckwith was injured iniirnpv north of El Paso del date last year. He attnouted a part of the increase to the fact license department Workers are "about a week ahead" In the work over last year. Registrations through March 22 included 94,651 passenger cars, 31,774 trucks, compared with passenger cars and 25,616 trucks on the same date in 1948.

"We've shown a steady gain in motor vehicle registrations since 1940," Gallegos said, "except during the war years." in the plane crash. Doc Noss pull MnrtP. Padre LaRue and his ed the two out of the wrecked plane, loaded mattresses on a pick-up truck and drove them to community of peons migrated northward, found and worked the rirh dpDOSits. the hospital in El Paso, But they covered the mine and Just what happened to all the bars of metal that Doc Noss hauled out of his treasure-cave is a mystery. Ryan, during his pre hid the gold upon the approacn of an expedition sent from Mexico to claim, the treasure for the Spanish crown.

The padre was murdered and some of his peons tortured, but the secret was never liminary hearing on charges of from Los Angeles to help locate the treasure and determine the quickest way to dig to it. slaying Noss, testified he had ob jected to Noss use of Ryan's 3 told. trucks for "illegal" activities. Jim Hirst of the U. S.

Secret "This place might have some of Padre LaRue's treasure, but I mm. don't think it is his cave said -'trdrvnirj Mrs. Noss. In the first place, Service in Albuquerque has one of the bars. Hirst said it "definitely is not gold," but he hasn't had it analyzed as yet.

It is yellow and tarnished, looks hard as brass legend fixes the padre's mine in I a uu-u the Organ Mountains considerably and weighs maybe 12 or 15 pounds. IT SAVES TIME 511 Mrs. Noss is unwilling to dis 1' If 1 close the names of her associates as yet. But there is substantial money behind the search. A road IT COSTS NO MORE IT'S MO RE CONVENIENT! had to be built to the location; there is plenty of manpower and equipment on the scene.

ill .1 Tuesday or today a man witn a radar gadget was slated to arrive south of Mrs. Noss' location, ur-thermore "some of the things Doc Noss found are of a much later period than. Padre LaRue's time," she said. "It may have been a robber's hideout." Mrs. Noss has a copy of the Padre LaRue legend as printed in a State Bureau of Mines bulletin in 1935.

She also has a copy of a letter reputedly written by Pedro Nev-arez (or Navarres) in St. Augus-tin Convent, Mexico City, Feb. 5, 1781. Originally the letter was written in Spanish, and Mrs. Noss' topy is an English translation.

The missive gives detailed directions for finding a place "four hard days' journey" to the north of El Paso in the Caballo Mountains a place where "you can cut the gold with an ax." One marker described in Nevar-ez' letter is a cross carved into a rock. And although the Caballo Mountains are to the west of Mrs. Noss' location, she says there is a cross carved in a rock near her place too. Nevarez letter tells not only of gold, but of many mule-loads of silver. Giving directions by the rising and setting sun, and meas urements in Spanish "varas," the letter described 80 mule-loads of ALL WORSTED GABARDINE FINE FABRIC WELL MADE silver bars, coin to the extent of 11 mule-loads.

"I don't know what we'll TASTE IT! BOWMAN llV BAKING COMPANY HV (jfj) 3011 Monte Vista Blvd. VxAitAullij said Mrs. Noss as she put away letter. "But we should know New this Spring the Lustrous, Shimmering Look oi in a few days." zy4. Sheen Gabardine.

It's not a finish that soft gleam is Doc Noss explored his find slowly and laboriously sometimes in the dark of the night from 1937 on. An attempt to widen the narrow shaft to the treasure cave resulted in disaster Doc Noss used dynamite and a resulting slide sealed the passage-way. The war interrupted further efforts at exploration, and Noss and his wife subsequently separated. Later Noss interested a substan-tial businessman, Charley Ryan of WOVEN RIGHT INTO THE FABRIC through special, fine quality yarns. And you'll find wonderful new colors, too Jade, Chinese Red, Lido Blue as well as Beige, Grey, Black.

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