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...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
There is a story that gold worth $780,000 in an iron safe was stolen from Tom Sing of Monterey in 1875. It is believed to be cached on the banks of the Salinas River, at a point midway between Gonzales and Chualar. The men who buried the cache followed an old cattle...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Treasure Stories
Clarendon is an old river town in Monroe County. During the Civil War a Federal gunboat was on its way upstream with a safe full of gold to pay troops. The citizens of Clarendon (southern sympathizers) mounted an old cannon on the levee, overlooking the river....
