Fort Mohave Treasure Hunting Arizona San Bernardino Hacienda box canyon Bronco Canyon Cochise County

The site of Fort Mohave near Mohave Springs and around 20 miles due east of Lake Havasu City in Mohave County, is said to play host to a sizable gold nugget cache. Fort Mohave was burned down in 1861, to deny Confederate forces control of the fort. It was then rebuilt in 1863, and the new Fort Mohave served until the year 1890. The gold cache is said to be buried underneath the ruins of a carpenter shop on the north side of the fort. On the east side of Bronco Canyon, some 30 miles to the northeast of Fort McDowell in Maricopa County, it is said that around $75,000 worth of gold nuggets are buried. This treasure was said to have been buried by two miners in 1891, under a rock shaped like a toadstool close to a small spring. They were unable to find their buried treasure again. The Lost Treasure of Telegraph Pass is said to have been buried in the vicinity of Telegraph Pass in the year 1870, in a flat campground whose distinctive feature was a small butte to its east. This campground was said to be below Montezuma’s Head, somewhere on the southern end of the Estrella mountain range in Yavapai County. Buried here is about $50,000 in gold and jewelry. Close to Montezuma’s Head, there is another reported buried treasure, which supposedly contains up to $2 million in gold bars. Due west of Santa Rosa Wash, between the town of Santa Rosa and the city of Casa Grande, there is said to be a buried cache of some one thousand rifles and pistols, hidden by Native Americans in 1880. This places it in the Papago Indian Reservation in Pima County. In a cave on the east side of the Estrella mountain range and to the south of Butterfly Peak, there is said to be a deep box canyon that runs east to west. This canyon lies somewhere midway between Butterfly Peak and Montezuma’s Head. A cache of 30 bags of gold nuggets and 50 solid gold bars is reported to be hidden here. The legendary Sunlit Cave Treasure has been sought after by many treasure hunters. This tremendous cache is said to contain tons upon tons of Spanish gold bullion. The cave of which the legends tell is supposedly 15 to 20 miles due south of Ehrenberg in Yuma County, on the Arizona side of the Colorado River. Close to the Rancho de los Yumas, around 40 miles due north of Yuma City in Yuma County, it is said that a number of chests full of gold were buried on the Colorado River’s east bank. This treasure was said to have been hidden by a prospector named William Rood in 1875. In 1897, around $1,000 worth of twenty-dollar gold pieces were found in the vicinity, but the main treasure had never been found. The Lost Laguna Treasure is said to be located close to the modern-day Laguna Dam, between the Laguna Mountains in Mohave County and the Colorado River. According to legend, a band of Native Americans ambushed a group of miners, and threw their bodies into a gorge in the hills near present-day Laguna Dam, along with the gold they mined. This gold is said to consist of 50 pounds of gold nuggets. Around Yuma Crossing, close to present-day Yuma City, there is said to be $80,000 in gold and silver coins buried on the east banks of the Colorado River. This treasure was supposedly buried by a man named Lincoln in the 1850s. Along an old trail between Cochise County and Wilcox, around $60,000 of gold bullion is alleged to have been buried by the Alvord gang in the late 1800s. In the mountains north of Tucson, Arizona, there is reported to be a gold mine that was buried under collapsed earth and wooden logs. It is said that the mine was once staffed by a priest and some Native Americans. The only distinguishing characteristic of it was its iron door. No one has been able to find it since the collapse. Another point of interest in the Superstition Mountains was said to have been discovered in the 1840s. A Spaniard, along with his two sons, unearthed valuable ore near a place that was known to some as Weaver's Needle, named for its sharp peak. The Spaniard would dub this newl