Jamesspade2
Tenderfoot
Back in the 1860's, after or towards the end of the Civil War, a Confederate Soldier abandoned his unit, and took a wagon full of gold, and headed towards the Western Expanse of the United States. In 1871, he arrived in the what is now Quincy Lakes area, a mecca of freshwater lakes just up a mile from the Columbia River. The game was plentiful, and the land was farmable, and he built a homestead underneath a cliff face that sheltered him from the hot sun in the Summer days.
Fast forward to the 1950's, and an old Indian recalls a tale of an old man, with gold coins of mass multitude, who lived and died in the Quincy Lakes area. He tells of the old man, before he died, taking some horses ladened with full bags, and heading north about a mile and a half, and climbing the cliff walls there. The old man died, and was buried by the Indian's Father.
Fast forward to the 1980's. A guy buys up the whole area of the far reaches of the Quincy Lakes (some 1800 acres) and has walked out with a MD every day since the early 80's.
Late fall of 2005, I was out walking around the Lakes area, walking my dogs, and I stumbled across an old homestead. After research, I found this to be the site of the homestead of the old Confederate Soldier. I started researching the area, and I have found what appears to be the the cliff that the old man went to when he delivered the bags.
I went down last summer a few times to walk the area, and I started trying to find away up the cliff wall to the area at which he supposedly hid the gold. Early this year, I was finally successful in finding away to scale the heights, and I found out that.......it's gonna take along time to study the geological damages. I did find an old canteen, and a few other items, but, to this date, no gold. I have eliminated it down to a 400 foot tall by 1 mile long by 500 feet wide rock structure. There is numerous caves. Anyways, here's a picture of the general area that I've narrowed my search to. Sorry about the pics. They were taken by a camera phone.
Fast forward to the 1950's, and an old Indian recalls a tale of an old man, with gold coins of mass multitude, who lived and died in the Quincy Lakes area. He tells of the old man, before he died, taking some horses ladened with full bags, and heading north about a mile and a half, and climbing the cliff walls there. The old man died, and was buried by the Indian's Father.
Fast forward to the 1980's. A guy buys up the whole area of the far reaches of the Quincy Lakes (some 1800 acres) and has walked out with a MD every day since the early 80's.
Late fall of 2005, I was out walking around the Lakes area, walking my dogs, and I stumbled across an old homestead. After research, I found this to be the site of the homestead of the old Confederate Soldier. I started researching the area, and I have found what appears to be the the cliff that the old man went to when he delivered the bags.
I went down last summer a few times to walk the area, and I started trying to find away up the cliff wall to the area at which he supposedly hid the gold. Early this year, I was finally successful in finding away to scale the heights, and I found out that.......it's gonna take along time to study the geological damages. I did find an old canteen, and a few other items, but, to this date, no gold. I have eliminated it down to a 400 foot tall by 1 mile long by 500 feet wide rock structure. There is numerous caves. Anyways, here's a picture of the general area that I've narrowed my search to. Sorry about the pics. They were taken by a camera phone.
