NEW MEXICO LEGENDS

[trish76642]

New Mexico is said to hide the treasures of the Casa del Cueva de Oro, Emperor Maxmillian of Mexico and many other Spanish explorers, as well as caches stolen by bandits in a number of robberies. The rugged landscape and New Mexico mountains made hiding treasure ideal back in the "old days" when banks and safety deposit boxes were not an option.

Hidden Treasure Stories

http://www.legendsofamerica.com/HC-Treasures.html

Army Payroll in San Juan County

Red Hill Treasure

The Lost Padre Mine

Victorio Peak Mystery Treasure

More New Mexico Treasures

You Can Search For Black Gold

[lastleg]

Trish, Thanks for posting the New Mexico Legend site. I was expecting to
find a lot of, well, hogwash. But the first one about an Army payroll robbery
was properly debunked. And the site owner published the reasons why it
never happened.
When was the last time you heard one of the 'elite' treasure writers notify
readers the yarn was homespun?
I hope you find a good lead and get out to the "Land of Enchantment".
It's close to Texas and is like a different continent.

lastleg

[trish76642]

Trish, Thanks for posting the New Mexico Legend site. I was expecting to
find a lot of, well, hogwash. But the first one about an Army payroll robbery
was properly debunked. And the site owner published the reasons why it
never happened.
When was the last time you heard one of the 'elite' treasure writers notify
readers the yarn was homespun?
I hope you find a good lead and get out to the "Land of Enchantment".
It's close to Texas and is like a different continent.

lastleg

Thanks LL...i hope you find a good lead also!
I would love to go to New Mexico!

[lastleg]

Thanks Trish, I do have a super spot there that gives freely to the patient
detectorist. You have to do a lot of research digging, it doesn't come easily.
All the time I read posts of newbies begging for someone to lead them to it.
I went through every tribulation they encounter and found that if you read
everything you can about the place you want to explore and never give up
you will eventually find a little "shangralai".
Now plan your next vacation to put yourself in a likely area that has maybe
a deserted old townsite or a vacant mining spot. Look for meneral specimans,
meteorites, purple bottles and of course oooold coins.
Remember that towns started with a roar and became deserted in a flash.
In their hurry to get to the next boomtown they left behind baggage that has
collector value now.
But first and foremost, take your time, enjoy the climate and sights and have
fun. Make a few good memories for later on. I'm glad I did.

[trish76642]

share some of your treasure hunting stories LL...i would love to hear about them.

[lastleg]

OK Trish, this one happened in the state just north of the Enchanted One.
Used to trout fish and one trip my hunting buddy and wife came up to join
us. I took him way up the 4-wheel only trail to where we could go no more.
I really wanted to show him the 20 ft high gossans that bulged up from the
surface. Previously I had dug quartz crystals by the bucket full. So we had
to take off by foot because the trail to the top of the Divide was covered in
deep snow.
I assured him that that I could almost see the three cones and it would only
take us a little while . . . an hour later we were hipdeep in snow and had miles
to go. Thwarted, we descended a thousand feet to a huge ghost town site
and dug 100 year old relics the rest of the day. But . . .
A few year later same people fishing, eating fresh trout. So I sez to John
ya' know those crystal domes are still up there waiting for us. I could almost
taste the chrytalline gold nuggets hiding behind the quartz. So here we go
and when we got to the highest silver mine, all boarded up, the turnoff to
the top of the mountain had vanished. It was just gone. I stared at John
and said don't you remember we went up this way last time and found the
wheel off a Bronco II in Willow Creek just before we had to stop? Yeah, yeah.
So we go on up by a new way the powers that be had bulldozed, all the
way looking for the domes. We passed the old shepherds monument and
still no domes. Now we were atop the divide and could see New Mexico and
Utah but the crystal domes were no longer there. We found bulldozer scrapes
and finally realized someone had claimed them hauled them away.
So that was one that we missed by not going earlier after snowmelt.

[trish76642]

LL that woulda made me sick to my stomach. Its a lesson learned i guess, "if your gonna do it, do it now"
Have you gone back there since then LL?

[lastleg]

We have been back to the ghost town which was my most favorite spot
to detect. Found two barber dimes and some gold jewelry. But now my
wife is homebound with emphysema so can't travel far anymore.
I'd love to take my Explorer up there sometime. There is another ghost
in New Mexico that John has permission to hunt. We've pulled lots of goodies
out of that place too.
Sorry I cannot post pics yet. Need someone to teach me how.

lastleg

[trish76642]

i'd love to see some pictures..i will teach you how to upload them to T-Net.

Scan a picture to your computer, save it to "documents" (thats the easiest place to put them)

Underneath the comment box, you'll see "Browse" click on that, go to where your pictures are saved (documents), click on the picture you want to post, hit ok, then hit "post".... Easy.

You can practice doing it here if you want to.

After you learn to 'post' them, i will tell you how to 'resize'