Anyone out there searching for gold coins related to this legend? Listed as Legend #196 in "Lost Treasures of California - Map & Guide".
"Gold coins continue to be found occasionally on the Santa Clara River, said to be fragments of a treasure lost in San Francisquito Canyon during California's second greatest disaster in state history. The San Francis Dam, about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, broke in 1928, drowning more than 500 and washing away ranches and adobes as the wall of water rushed down the Santa Clara River to the Pacific Ocean. An estimated $200,000 in gold coins was said to be hidden by a miner/rancher who lived in the lower portion of the canyon. When he died, his sons found gold coins hidden in various places around the old adobe that was their father's home. It is said that there was much more treasure hidden than found, and all was washed away in the flood of 1928."
"Gold coins continue to be found occasionally on the Santa Clara River, said to be fragments of a treasure lost in San Francisquito Canyon during California's second greatest disaster in state history. The San Francis Dam, about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, broke in 1928, drowning more than 500 and washing away ranches and adobes as the wall of water rushed down the Santa Clara River to the Pacific Ocean. An estimated $200,000 in gold coins was said to be hidden by a miner/rancher who lived in the lower portion of the canyon. When he died, his sons found gold coins hidden in various places around the old adobe that was their father's home. It is said that there was much more treasure hidden than found, and all was washed away in the flood of 1928."
