Windham County Observer

Again from the Andean country comes the report that relics have been discovered that tend to reveal the location of the fabulous lost treasure of the Incas. Since the days of Spanish invaders whose combination of courage and treachery served to overthrow the empire of the Incas, there have been rumors, founded on legends adhering to history, that the hiding place of Atahualpa's treasure had been revealed.

Many times the value of the legendary treasure has been taken from Peru and its environs since Pizarro, coming along during a division of Inca rule, contrived by treachery and battle to start a flow of gold and silver to the chests of Spanish kings. Up to 1630, the metal taken from the Andean country had yielded in the "King's fifth" more than the equivalent of $130,000,000. The treasure the conquered Incas, according to legend, refused to add to Spanish plunder would be a mite compared with the riches in silver and gold taken from the land of the Sun-worshippers who lost their domain when they disputed the identity of authority over the Sun-temple at Cuzco and were easy prey for Pizarro and his band.

Discovery of any part of the legendary cache would be mostly of archaeological value. The realm from Quito to the River Maule has been searched, mined and exploited for four centuries since the Pizarro invasion. In 1533, Pizarro conquered Cuzco; in 1535 he founded the city now known as Lima.

The modern wealth of the realm of the Inca that Pizarro overthrew and the Montezuma that Cortez conquered dwarfs even the golden legends of these Spanish adventurers who fought and plundered, only to end their lives in failure. Cortez as a neglected conqueror, Pizarro the victim of an assassin.