The Mt. Zion Historical Society are soon to publish a new book entitled
Dents Run Lost Gold Shipment . In it they will claim that in a drunken state Conners allegedly stated that after the train stopped in St Marys its cargo was transported “over Thunder Mountain near Hicks Run.” Furthermore, the
Pennsylvania Outdoor Bureaux article claims that in the late 1800s the Pinkerton Detective Agency discovered “3.5 gold bars.”
This impressive find caused several of the detectives to dedicate the rest of their lives hunting for the lost Civil War gold. Writer Jim Burke states that in the 1990s a man named Jack Schall came to the area to survey elevation marker accuracy and he met with a man in a St. Marys pub who claimed to have a bar of gold under his bed. According to Burke, Schall claims the man showed him the gold bar.