1962 Pioneer Press Treasure Hunt

"Medallion" referred to the simple fact that the treasure was a medallion. "City's boundaries" indicated the medallion was hidden within the St. Paul city limits.

Hi-jinks meant Jenks Street was nearby. The distant blinking landmark was the illuminated sign atop the First National Bank.

The medallion is on public property. The two structures with green meant a house on the east side of Mississippi St. with green trim and the St. Paul Structural Steel Co.'s green-trimmed building.

The site of the medallion was not a dangerous location. "The Case of the Double Arrow" refers to Case Street nearby and the several double arrow direction signs at the junctions of streets running into Mississippi Street.

If you face either east or west there is a bridge at either hand - the Mississippi and Maryland St. bridges, south and north.

The numbers "297" indicated the address of the end house on the north side of Jenks St. as it intersects Mississippi St. The four letters and the tall tower are KSTP's signal tower, visible from the treasure site.

The horn is a klaxon horn on diesel railroad locomotives which sound at intervals as the diesels pass through the railroad yard west of the site. The old school is Rice School southwest of the location.

Five trees are located about 80 yards northwest ("the direction of a good hard freeze") of the hidden medallion. "Yard" and "sort" mean the Soo Line railroad freight sorting yard alongside the treasure site.

A gray railroad ice house, of the variety little used these days, sits alongside the tracks. A building covered with tar paper is on the east side of Mississippi St.

The patriotic symbol is the American flag on a pole in front of the St. Paul Structural Steel Co. yard. To the southwest of the hidden treasure, the cross of a church steeple is visible in the distance. The steel building referred to the structural steel building, clearly marked.

Eight new utility poles stand on the east side of Mississippi St., a street named after a river. Three-sided figures are the triangular "yield right of way" highway signs at the intersection of Lawson Ave. and Mississippi St.

Magnolia and Geranium Aves. - the "blossoms" are nearby. A tavern, Edna's place, is at the end of the Mississippi St. bridge and Cook St. is nearby. The old-fashioned railing on the Mississippi St. bridge and an old-style smokestack sits on top of a railroad switchman's shanty in the area.

"Rectangular shape" meant that the treasure was hidden on a rectangular piece of ground built up by the highway department to give a solid base to a stretch of proposed Hwy. 35. The side of the house at 293 Lawson St. has two bay windows. The treasure was hidden under the trampled snow and could only be located with a tool. The pipe 40 yards from the road (Mississippi St.) is one of several highway department iron marking stakes. And 45 feet southwest of the stake was (Bravo!) the prize.