$600K gold buried near Monterrey, Mexico

[Tanneyhill]

Anyone know what happened to Attorney Renchart's attempts in the early 1900s to secure an agreement with the Mexican government to allow his client to search & extract a cache of buried gold near Monterrey, Mexico? Apparently, the gold was buried by ex-Confederate US soldiers who turned into bandits in Mexico. They robbed a mine pack train.

The value of that cache would be $63+ million today in just bullion value alone.

Anyone from Monterrey, Mexico here?

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1902-06-09/ed-1/seq-5

 

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[js3bear]

Anyone know what happened to Attorney Renchart's attempts in the early 1900s to secure an agreement with the Mexican government to allow his client to search & extract a cache of buried gold near Monterrey, Mexico? Apparently, the gold was buried by ex-Confederate US soldiers who turned into bandits in Mexico. They robbed a mine pack train.

The value of that cache would be $63+ million today in just bullion value alone.

Anyone from Monterrey, Mexico here?

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1902-06-09/ed-1/seq-5

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Hello! I’m actually from the area and have heard similar stories of that treasure being buried somewhere in the mountains of Monterrey, do you have any more information on this topic?

 

[Mackaydon]

Before you get started, you may wish to consider this:
Monterrey's population in 1900 was 50k; even less in the 1860s. Today's population is over 5 million; seond in US populated cities only to NYC @ 8.5M (Los Angeles at 4.0M). If the treasure still exists, it's probably buried under a street, structure or concrete.
Don in SoCal.
PS: It does make for a good story.

 

[MiddenMonster]

If the treasure still exists, it's probably buried under a street, structure or concrete.

Which means that many, many decades ago some poor, mistreated, peon menial job worker stopped coming to work all of a sudden one day...