The Gold House

Download or read book The Gold House written by John Clarence and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gold House Trilogy is a highly documented account of never-before-known historic facts concerning Victorio Peak, a small mountain located on White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The story begins in the 1930s at a place called the Hembrillo Basin, a rugged desert area in New Mexico at a time when Doc and Ova Noss discovered a vast treasure there, a discovery unmatched in the northern hemisphere. The events that took place from the early days of the discovery until Doc Noss was murdered in 1949, up to and including 1955 when the military at White Sands Missile Range evicted Ova Noss from the treasure site are told in great detail. Ova Noss' eviction was followed by a string of thefts by the military, a windfall for select individuals at White Sands Missile Range who helped themselves to the gold, a never-ending payday for those who plundered it. Summary of the events detailed in The Gold House, The Discovery: 1) The Lorius-Heberer murders in 1935; 2) Doc's arrests, imprisonment, release and unconditional Pardon by Governor Clyde Tingley on March 3, 1936; 3) The discovery of the treasure in 1937; 4) Efforts to remove the treasure; 5) The formation of the Cheyenne Mining Company and the betrayals that followed; 6) The lawyers who represented Doc and Ova's mining company; 7) The tricks played by the Director of the Office of Silver & Gold Operations Leland Howard, the Director of the Mint Nellie Ross, and the presence of the Secret Service and the FBI; 8) Doc's renewed efforts to lift the treasure, his strange two-year disappearance, his return to Victorio Peak and his murder by Charley Ryan; 9) The roles played by Doc's business partners in the Cheyenne Mining Company, attorneys William Scoggin and Ben Newell and their roles in the murder trial of Charley Ryan as judge and defense attorney respectively; 10) Ryan's acquittal, and: 11) Ova's struggle to lift the treasure and her forced eviction from the site by the military in 1955.