In "Gold Is Not Always" and Go Down, Moses, the ground that Lucas Beauchamp 'salts' - buries enough money in to convince the out-of-town salesman that it's the site of a buried antebellum treasure - is almost two hours by car from the McCaslin-Edmonds plantation. The road to it is "a gullied overgrown path winding through hills," leading to an old orchard beside a ruined house that was big enough to have more than one "chimney" - elements which suggests an abandoned antebellum plantation (234, 89).
Cotton is the principal crop raised on the Edmonds' place, and the narrative in "Gold Is Not Always" goes through two of the fields in which it is grown. Edmonds notes that his tenants are "laid by" at the time of the story, which means they have already planted the cotton (231). This is the second field mentioned, on the other side of the road from the rest of the plantation.
Cotton is the principal crop raised on the Edmonds' place, and the route of narrative in "Gold Is Not Always" goes through two of the fields in which it is grown. Edmonds notes that his tenants are "laid by" at the time of the story, which means they have already planted the cotton (231). This is the first field mentioned, next to the pasture.
