by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
A prospector came into Durango, Colorado, one day in 1905, bowed down by the weight of a sack full of extremely rich gold ore. He was in urgent need of some money and could not wait for the ore to be shipped and smelted and returned from the Denver mint as coin. After...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Spaniards came up from Mexico a few years after the American Revolutionary War and discovered in a rugged mountain peak, somewhere near what is now the states southern border, an immensely rich deposit of gold. The Spaniards began preparations for mining, timbering a...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Near the head of Falls Creek in Falls Creek Valley, northwest of Durango, is a cache of twelve sacks of highgraded gold ore, each weighing 60 lbs, secreted by Hank Somers. Treasure Stories Florida Treasure SitesIsland of the BestCanadian Treasure StoriesWinnfield...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Sometime between the years 1938 to 1940 three men were working on the highway a few miles north of Salida,Colorado. Work shut down for a few days, so they decided to do a little prospecting in the nearby mountains, just to kill time. They stumbled on an abandoned mine...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
In the late 1880s a band of four or five outlaws held up the Bradshaw route stage office in Beaumont, then known as San Goronio, and made off with $20,000 in gold coins. Heading west across the Moreno Badlands, they holed up in a mesquite grove on the outskirts of the...
