UncleMatt
Bronze Member
- Jul 14, 2012
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- Detector(s) used
- Garrett Infinium & Gold Bug II, Bazooka Super Prospector Sluice
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
In Sheepherder Gold, Temple talks about 2 young sheepherders who stumbled onto the cache while going to Pagosa Springs from their sheep camp at the headwaters of the San Juan River. They supposedly went into town with samples of ore they took from the cache. Temple reports that an acquaintance of his did an assay on a sample of the ore, and it produced 1.15 ounces of gold per pound of ore. The pool hall where all the action went down burned down not long after, and I have been unable to find anything in local media about the incident. I also tried to track down the people that Temple said he interacted with while researching the situation, but came up empty. Most had passed away long ago. And attempts to contact the family members of those people did not produce any results. Another dead end.