Legend of Mount Graham Treasure and Cochise Stronghold Treasure

[cochisecowboy1965]

Okay so I have a book that was printed in 1997 by Raymond H. Voss and it has a lot of the legends of lost mines and treasures in the state of Arizona. These two in particular keep catching my eye and I have even found a bit about them online. The first story goes...
Mount Graham's Lost Treasure: T.T Swift while working as a Forest Service Ranger in 1903, came across some old ax blazes on a number of pine trees in the Graham Mountains. Local research by Swift, indicated that there was a buried treasure dating back to the 1830's. The waybill gave 12 blazed trees as one marker. Swift did find the trees and also some granite rocks with crosses chiseled on them and several other markers. ( it does not say what these "other markers" were) He did not however find the treasure. The treasure was estimated to be $125,000 in gold bullion. Location of the granite rocks is on Snow Flat. Mount Graham is southwest of Safford.
And then the second story...
The Apache Chief Cochise is said to have hidden a chest ( or two ) in the Dragoon Mountains. The gold was taken from a Butterfield Stage raid and hidden somewhere in his hideout known as Cochise's Stronghold in Stronghold Canyon. (AKA Cochise's Gold)
In some of my research I have learned that there are ruins in Stronghold Canyon from a Butterfield Stage Station with four Confederate soldiers buried there. We are looking forward to hearing everyone else's take on these tales and to going and exploring them.

 

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[cudamark]

If they give you permission (preferably in writing), yes.

 

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[bc5391]

Can I metal detect on someone else’s mining claim?

no

 

[joshward]

The Stronghold we believe is protected but as for mount Graham it is open.

What if I’m grandfather in the monument site I own a claim

 

[bc5391]

What if I’m grandfather in the monument site I own a claim

unless it is a patented claim and the taxes have been paid throughout the years,and it was passed on to you, you would have no rights. If it was not patented the fees would have to be paid every year, or it goes back into the system, being that it is a monument site, it is most likely protected from any ground disturbance.

 

[joshward]

unless it is a patented claim and the taxes have been paid throughout the years,and it was passed on to you, you would have no rights. If it was not patented the fees would have to be paid every year, or it goes back into the system, being that it is a monument site, it is most likely protected from any ground disturbance.

My family has a gold mining claim within a mile of a national monument but we’ve owned it before it was national monument! Owned it since1972!!

 

[bc5391]

Fantastic and happy hunting, the Spanish also passed through the Mt Graham area, so they may also left something behind.