Other New Mexico Treasures Just Waiting to be Found

Caballo Mountains – Also called Horse Mountains, the peaks are located thirty-five miles north of Las Cruces. Gold bars, silver and jewels were reportedly buried by a spring under the big rocks of Cabello Canyon.  The buried cache was said to have been stolen from the Chihauhua-Spanish by the Indians during the Indian uprisings.  Having no need for the treasure, the Indians carted the goods by horses and mules to the hiding spot after their murderous raids.

Capitan Mountains - A huge store of Aztec Indian treasure in gold bars and rich ore, said to total some $25 million, is located in the Capitan Mountains, possibly in a cave or cavern. 

Cimarron - While traveling along the Santa Fe Trail to Independence, Missouri a group of freighters were attacked just three days into their trip.  The freighters were carrying 25 bags of gold coins worth about $150,000. Seeing the imminent attack the men buried the gold somewhere between Ute Park and Cimarron, New Mexico in Colfax County. Only one of the men escaped the attack to tell the story, but severely wounded, he died just a few days later. The dying man said that the cache was buried in an area with three large rocks, one of which was “half as large as a house.”

Colfax County - Point of Rocks - In 1851 two pioneers were said to have buried $40,000 in gold coins near a campsite on the old Santa Fe Trail and near the Point of Rocks.  The Point of Rocks in Colfax County is on private land, about 8 miles north and 2 miles east of a roadside park on US Highway 56. This landmark was a popular campsite with a nearby spring. There was considerable violence at this site, including the killing of the White Family in 1849. There are graves sites at the point that the money was supposedly buried.