Diamonds in yer own back yard....

[Anonymous]

It turns out there may be buried treasure not 6 miles from where I am right now....

After several days of research I at least have a probable area to start searching for what has been estimated to be at least $3500 face value gold coins buried in may 1892...

Other estimates say $15000 or more...

Yes, this is the eleventy-first anniversary of it being buried...

I think it's only fitting that I'm going after robbers loot on such an auspicious anniversary...Bilbo would be proud...

Anyone who says 'Bilbo who?' will be laffed at :lol:

 

[lab rat]

So what are the facts and history of this supposed treasure? (Longitude and latitude may be sent me discretely )

 

[Anonymous]

It's a really great story. In brief, it was a stage coach robery between Old Shasta and Redding along middle creek. There was more gold than could be carried away and most of it was buried. There seems to be several different versions of what was actually in the strong box, but the lowest estimate indicates 200 ozs of dust.

Here are some more facts for a longer version...

Two brothers held up the stage, one stopped the stage while the other covered him from across the road. The lookout was inside the coach because the one passenger wanted to ride up top. The lookout inside the coach shot the only robber he knew of with a shot gun. The shot brothers shotgun went off as he fell, wounding both the driver and the passenger beside him.

The other brother fired several shots into the coach and the stage bolted. The man inside eventually died a couple of hours later.

The brother who wasn't shot thought his brother was dead, so he stripped him of ID and left him. A posse found him the next day, still alive but unwilling to talk.

Agents finally figgered out who he was, and assumed the other robber was his older brother. The older brother was captured a few weeks later.

While the courts were trying to get thew two brothers healthy enuff to stand trial-the older one also being shot as he was being arrested-the good upstanding citizens broke into the jail and lynched them.

The older brother offered to tell the lynch mob where the gold was if they'd let his brother go, but since it was gold belonging to Wells Fargo, nobody cared that much about it.

There is a lot more to the story, but this is the nutz and bolts of who-what-where-why.

The location of the robbery is public knowledge, so all that remains is deciding how far he could have carried the gold before he decided to bury it, and in what direction. The terrain is pretty ruff around there, so even with a metal detector it's gonna be a job finding it. But hey, the fun is in the search

 

[coinshooter]

Hey lab rat, are you sure your suzuki samari could travel that far from so cal?

 

[diggummup]

Just lookin over old posts.The stage coach robbery that anonymous was referring to was committed by the Ruggles brothers in 1892.It is documented but, all the luck in the world trying to find it.LOL.I wish I was over there in Ca.,I prefer to look for goldcaches in the dirt versus the ocean.