This article has been handed down through my family and I have transcribed it as it appeared in the Advertiser in 1969.
LIKE IT WAS… By DAVE PEYTON
A strange tale of gold and treasure came out of Logan County in 1909. Here’s the story from the Sept. 22, 1969, Advertiser:
There was deposited in the First National Bank
of Logan yesterday the sum of $6.020. This specific
deposit has a history as strange and as interesting
as ever figured in the tales told of the old time
misers.
Milton Mullins, an aged man who lives at Rolfe
post office, in Logan County, is the owner of this
small fortune and the sum deposited represents the
savings of fifty years.
When quite a young man Mullins began hoarding
his savings. At every opportunity he would ex-
change silver and greenbacks for gold, and two or
three times a year he would go to the treasure
trove in the rear of his house and make a deposit
of golden coin.
Year after year he watched the pile accumulate.
Even before the Civil War he was reputed to have
had a considerable sum of money hidden on his
premises and bands of maurauders often tried to
compel him to disclose its hiding place during the
War, but those attempts were never successful, and
the secret remained his until about two days ago.
A few days ago Mullins' wife died, and he, feel-
ing that he would not long survive her, decided that
it would be better to disclose at once the hiding
place of the treasure which represented the slow
but regular accumulation of fifty years.
Summoning J.M. Perry, a grandson, and some
other near relatives, he related a story of his
hoardings and gave them directions how to find his
money. They went and dug in as directed and
found $5,000 in gold and twenty dollars in silver.
Then they proceded to the barn where, in the exact
spot indicated by the aged man, discovered $1,000
in twenty dollar bills, making 6.020 in all.
Mr. Mullins has always been considered a frugal
and honorable man and those who have known him
for years are not surprised by the remarkable story
since it was known that he was hoarding his gains
somewhere about his property.