Sunday, March 17, 2013

Sunday Tidbits-Buried Treasure



1.                  What did Martin Harris find when he went back to the Hill Cumorah with a shovel?

A)                 Lots of rock

B)                 Arrow heads dating to the last great battle between the Nephites and Lamanites

C)                 Another stone box

D)                 An old shoe

2.                  According to Tiffany’s Monthly magazine, what would happen when “money diggers” found stone boxes or chests?

A)                 They became very rich

B)                 The box or chest would move so that they could not find it again

C)                 The Angel Moroni would command them to bury it back in the earth

D)                 The seal was so strong that they could not open them and they gave up

Yesterday’s answer:

D.   22 million pounds

Member John Horner tells the success of his crop in the California gold fields:

He arrived home safely in the fall and in time to take the place he had left in the firm of J. M. Horner & Co., to sell our large crop now ready for market. We continued our energetic and prosperous career buying more lands and farming them ourselves, or letting them to tenants until our potato crop reached the enormous quantity of twenty two million pounds in 1853. We had also in that year fifteen hundred acres of wheat and barley, besides cabbages, tomatoes and onions in quantities. California had not only supplied herself with vegetables this (1853) year, for the first time, but she produced a large surplus which could not be sold, and was never sent to market.

 Journal of John M. Horner; http://www.boap.org/
Additional information on the Horners
http://ldsmag.com/ldsmag/articles/040730ocean.html

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