I've never heard the story, but there's still placer gold to being found in those mountains. Some treasure stories are just more of a local legend. There's a few not so widely known treasure stories like that here in the Rockies and may of began by some small local news paper editor. They did quite a few little stories like that back when everyone got their news in that way. I remember the local news paper in Salida, Colorado called the Nountainair and they had a story about two miners working the Cache Creek gravels and separated the gold in an amalgam of mercury and putting it all in glass bottle flasks. The story went with one of the miners headed to Salida for supplies. Meanwhile the other miner left behind started feeling sick and got worse, so he decided he needed to see a doctor, so he stashed all his mining gear and hid two sizable glass flasks filled with the accumulated gold mercury amalgam. As the sick miner headed down the Arkansas River to a hospital in Salida he ran into his partner returning with the supplies. The sickly miner told his partner where he hid the equipment, but not to worry about the gold, because it's hid where neither fire or water will harm it. Well the sick miner made it to the hospital okay, but in a short while he dies of what I think the story went of a ruptured spleen. The dead miner could never tell his partner where he stashed all the gold they worked all season to gather and that its still out there to be found.
