Helena California ........Buried Gold Cache

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Around 1849, a man named Davenport worked a bar on the Trinity River about 9 miles W Helena,California later known as Davenport's Bar. He took out as much as $500 in gold per day and employed a Negro and Scotsman to help him. Both men knew that Davenport's buried his gold somewhere around the camp and plotted to rob him of his gold. A year after he suddenly disappeared, his body was accidentally found, the skull crushed.
Some 15 years later, the Scotsman confessed that the Negro had killed Davenport for an estimated $50,000 in gold which they both dug up and reburied, intending to recover it when things quieted down. They were the prime suspects in Davenport's disappearance and they never returned to the site.

These are his directions to the gold cache:
It is buried on a large bar on the Trinity River, semi-circular in shape. Before you reach the bar you will come to a gorge through which the river runs with great rapidity. It is impossible to pass through with a mule. You will find a trail, however, leading over a steep mountain which rises from that bar very abruptly and on the first bench you will notice a big cliff of bluish-looking rock. Not far from the cliff stood a large pine tree, and at the center of the distance between the cliff and the tree you will find the gold. There are 10 to 12 stone bottles filled with gold dust, and a canvas bag filled with coins. This treasure has never been recovered.


40°46'1.13"N 123° 7'48.26"W Approximate area
 

bedrock bubba

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I have always been interested in the Davenport treasure!

Back in 1982, my GF map dowsed a map of it that was in a treasure magazine, and marked two spots the gold could be in.

Then, I returned the magazines, and they were given away!
 

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Around 1849, a man named Davenport worked a bar on the Trinity River about 9 miles W Helena,California later known as Davenport's Bar. He took out as much as $500 in gold per day and employed a Negro and Scotsman to help him. Both men knew that Davenport's buried his gold somewhere around the camp and plotted to rob him of his gold. A year after he suddenly disappeared, his body was accidentally found, the skull crushed.
Some 15 years later, the Scotsman confessed that the Negro had killed Davenport for an estimated $50,000 in gold which they both dug up and reburied, intending to recover it when things quieted down. They were the prime suspects in Davenport's disappearance and they never returned to the site.

These are his directions to the gold cache:
It is buried on a large bar on the Trinity River, semi-circular in shape. Before you reach the bar you will come to a gorge through which the river runs with great rapidity. It is impossible to pass through with a mule. You will find a trail, however, leading over a steep mountain which rises from that bar very abruptly and on the first bench you will notice a big cliff of bluish-looking rock. Not far from the cliff stood a large pine tree, and at the center of the distance between the cliff and the tree you will find the gold. There are 10 to 12 stone bottles filled with gold dust, and a canvas bag filled with coins. This treasure has never been recovered.


40°46'1.13"N 123° 7'48.26"W Approximate area

LOL @ skimming 25 ounces of gold a day, worth $32,000 today. Right, a guy that worked at a bar.

Imagine the population required to gross that kind of $ in a bar, let alone skim it. :)

who knows, in 2007 maybe peeps fell for that :)
 

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LOL @ skimming 25 ounces of gold a day, worth $32,000 today. Right, a guy that worked at a bar.

Imagine the population required to gross that kind of $ in a bar, let alone skim it. :)

who knows, in 2007 maybe peeps fell for that :)
When G.H quotes bar , he is referring to a Sand Bar As intrusion into a river , Not Bar as in one that serves alcohol :happysmiley: ..cheers Mick
 

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When G.H quotes bar , he is referring to a Sand Bar As intrusion into a river , Not Bar as in one that serves alcohol :happysmiley: ..cheers Mick

Such a spoil sport :(

OK, lets think about ~2500 ounces of gold overkill to bury to get to his $50K at the time, above and beyond what he spent and paid and whatever. Assuming he wasn't sluicing coins, He must have been trading that on his off days at the bank. Imagine the percentage of total minted dollars he personally would have owned in the first year we had gold dollars.

Seems unheard of that he and his two hands could be into that rich a load, although after a fast section is the right place for drop out ...
 

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Around 1849, a man named Davenport worked a bar on the Trinity River about 9 miles W Helena,California later known as Davenport's Bar. He took out as much as $500 in gold per day and employed a Negro and Scotsman to help him. Both men knew that Davenport's buried his gold somewhere around the camp and plotted to rob him of his gold. A year after he suddenly disappeared, his body was accidentally found, the skull crushed.
Some 15 years later, the Scotsman confessed that the Negro had killed Davenport for an estimated $50,000 in gold which they both dug up and reburied, intending to recover it when things quieted down. They were the prime suspects in Davenport's disappearance and they never returned to the site.

These are his directions to the gold cache:
It is buried on a large bar on the Trinity River, semi-circular in shape. Before you reach the bar you will come to a gorge through which the river runs with great rapidity. It is impossible to pass through with a mule. You will find a trail, however, leading over a steep mountain which rises from that bar very abruptly and on the first bench you will notice a big cliff of bluish-looking rock. Not far from the cliff stood a large pine tree, and at the center of the distance between the cliff and the tree you will find the gold. There are 10 to 12 stone bottles filled with gold dust, and a canvas bag filled with coins. This treasure has never been recovered.


40°46'1.13"N 123° 7'48.26"W Approximate area


Volume 2 #153....If it is close to your location it is worth the countless trips. HH
 

bedrock bubba

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Volume 2 #153....If it is close to your location it is worth the countless trips. HH

Quite ironically, the marks on the map my GF had correspond exactly with this description!

There were two marks: one near the original diggins, and one upstream in the steep canyon as I recall. Two locations.

But now I am old, and in poor health, I never could get anyone to go with me to look for it.
 

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