Treasure on the Tug River?

This came from an earlier post about civil war caches in wv:

Comes from Robert Marx’s book, Buried Treasure of the United States: “In the early 1900s a Dennis Atkins is alleged to have buried about $200,000 in gold coins along the east bank of the Tug Fort River, near the toll bridge, just north of Kermit, State 52, Mingo Co.”

Does anyone have more info on this? Was it ever rumored to have been found? I have family in that area and have heard a tale similar to this.

How would one go…

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