Jones' Gold, Fort Huachuca, Arizona...

[Sierra Vista Native]

For anyone interested in the Jones' Gold on Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The poweres that be are planting 'endangered species' plants on the site. They are marked by the small red flags and tags.
Now why would anyone plant endangered species over a suspected treasure site...except to keep everyone out!

[auferret]

I think Roundup is on sale at Home Depot this time of year.....

[ZJBarney]

Interesting, I might have to make a field trip up to Huachuca Canyon this weekend. The thought of $60 mil gives just about anyone gold fever.

[firebird21]

A friend of mine furnished me with details of this story and photos of Jones at the site. He was a prospector, a historian and a western author who knew Jones personally. Jones passed away quite a few years ago, but after hearing the details from Jones himself my friend and I became convinced that Jones really did fall into a cavern that contained numerous gold and silver bars. Obviously getting permission to search on the fort will be difficult, but if anyone is interested in the details that came directly from Jones - contact me.

[ZJBarney]

The whole idea of this story piqued my interest a few months ago when I stumbled on it researching the history of Ft. Huachuca. With the amount of caves and limestone formations it makes it seem plausible, but the thought of riches has crazed many a sane man. Between geodes, meteorite strewnfields and the Fourth my weekend looks busy, but I think I may be able to find some time to give the area a look just to satisfy my curiosity.

[jeff k]

I remember reading the Life magazine article 50 years ago.

http://www.huachuca.army.mil/sites/H...S/jonesgld.pdf

[Oroblanco]

Hola amigos,

Strange that they would be planting endangered species plants in that particular area; one has to wonder at the reason? Perhaps the planters are just unaware of the buried treasure?

Thank you for the link to the article, I have never seen it before - the old TV series "Unsolved Mysteries" ran an episode on this lost treasure some years ago too, and what surprised me was that the Army actually agreed to help dig up and recover the treasure. I wonder if the current post commander of Ft Huachuca would be so congenial to treasure hunters?

I look forward to following this discussion; good luck and good hunting amigos, I hope you find the treasures that you seek.
Oroblanco

[Nugget Hunter Smith]

Charles Kenworthy, noted treasure hunter, and his Quest team got permission to hunt for this treasure in the 80's. They searched and searched and dug holes but came up with nothing. I think the military or government recovered this cache like they did at Victorio Peak.

[msgpeteret]

I have been up there looking a few times. I found the dig site and where they had put the conduit in the ground after it supposedly flooded.
I find this interesting, the CORPS of Engineers often fill holes with sand after they have been used or excavated. The GPR that was used to locate the site, found an area (cavern) that seemed to have been filed with sand. Huummm

I have not been up there in about 5 years or so now.

[CrankyYankee]

I recently visited Fort Huachuca and asked at the museum if there was anything 'new' about the treasure and was told, "No. And if there was anything, I wouldn't tell you." So...there's the latest.

[Oroblanco]

WELCOME TO TREASURENET CrankyYankee!

Sorry to hear about your rather negative experience with the personnel at the base museum, perhaps that person was having a bad day. Thanks for posting and I look forward to reading more from you,
Oroblanco

[Old Bookaroo]

Cranky Yankee:

With all due respect, probably the worst approach is to flat out ask any museum or historical society person about buried or otherwise lost treasure.

Too many sites have been destroyed by vandals following treasure legends. To my mind, people who dig up Indian graves, just for an example, are not treasure hunters. They are ghouls. Museum and historical society people almost always hold that opinion of all treasure hunters.

I'm not saying it is fair - I'm just stating it as a fact of life we all must now deal with. Most people in these organizations have a very, very low opinion of treasure hunters. At best they view them as a waste of time - at worst as thieves of history itself.

A far more productive approach is oblique. If you ever get a chance to read Treasure of the Valley of Secrets by "Deek Gladson" you'll read an excellent outline of how to explore a treasure story on the ground.

There's no reason for anyone to be rude about it. It's too bad they gave you the brush-off. But I think that will continue to be your experience more often than not if you continue to attempt the frontal attack. That worked very poorly for Gen'l Grant at Cold Harbor. Stonewall Jackson had much better luck at Chancellorsville with a surprise attack on the flank.

Good luck to all,

~The Old Bookaroo