The bars that Noss and his crew removed from Victorio Peak were, in general, crudely formed, indicating the use of primitive smelting processes. However, the business often passes the tax onto the consumer by adding it to the selling price. [1][a] While there have been multiple documented expeditions to the peak, no gold has been officially recorded as being recovered from the site. Only four districts have each yielded more than 100,000 oz of placer gold production: Elizabethtown-Baldy (DIS019), Hillsboro (DIS197), Old Placers (DIS187), and New Placers (DIS186). In a deeper cavern, Doc found what he thought was a stack of worthless iron bars. Gold also concentrates above cemented gravels and clay layers within gravel deposits, which constrain downward migration of gold particles. Bill Shriver, before his death, told this writer that he had a copy of a transcribed order from Lyndon Johnson describing in detail how the president wanted a military escort to handle the supply of gold taken out of Victorio Peak and taken to his ranch. In a four-page confidential report entitled Field Examination of Noss Mining Claims, Hembrillo District, Herkenhoff recorded a description: Dr. The higher gold values occur near the base of alluvial gravel deposits where the gold is trapped by natural processes such as riffles in the river bottom, fractures within the bedrock, along bedding or foliation planes, and/or structures that are transverse to the river flow. The future economic potential will depend upon the discovery of large-volume, medium-grade deposits that can be mined by bulk-mining methods. The caverns are located in and around Victorio Peak, in a remote, rugged section of south-central New Mexico. In September 1961, Berlett and Fiege swore to the specifics of their discovery in detailed affidavits provided to federal officials. The soldiers, Airman First Class Thomas Berlett and Captain Leonard V. Fiege said they had found approximately 100 gold bars weighing between 40 and 80 pounds each in a small cavern. Seeking out the Seven Cities of Gold, Onate was said to have been a cruel man, brutally subjugating the Indians to do his bidding by beating and torturing them. Because of this natural concentration, some placers are richer in gold than the original lode deposits. Meanwhile, Noss's mining claims (for talc as a disguise) expired in 1948, and Mrs. Noss renewed them in her name. After much searching, he finally found a small iron bar to carry back through the narrow passageway. There were thousands of them, covered with old, dusty buffalo hides. In 1979, Babe died without ever finding the treasure. CNN Almost four decades ago, a gold bar was found on land that used to be Aztec ruins in Mexico. The 1.93-kilogram. It is estimated that 662,000 oz of gold have been produced from placer deposits throughout New Mexico from 1828 to 1991. November 16, 2015. These materials, including tape-recorded sessions wherein Lyndon Johnson discussed the disposition of some of the gold bars on his ranch, disappeared from Holmes office at the time of his death in February 1977. The slightest movement stirred up a cloud. The secret stash of a gold mine owner? A priest named LaRue at Durango in northern Mexico was looking after the soldier who told the priest . Topic at Watergate Hearings. However, disputing the military claim, New Mexico officials stated that they leased only the lands surface to the military. Native gold and electrum occurs with quartz, magnetite, ilmenite, amphiboles, pyroxenes, pyrite, zircon, garnet, rutile, and a variety of other heavy minerals. Representative Harold Runnels, a Democrat whose district includes the White Sands range, has proposed a joint Federalstate search for the treasure. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Within just a few days, Doc and Babe were back at the site with ropes and flashlights. Becoming desperate for cash, Doc and a man named Joseph Andregg transported gold bars, coins, jewels, and artifacts into Arizona, selling them on the black market. The family declines to discuss the incident. He stood guard while McDonald and the other man descended into a large cavern, returning with a crudely formed gold bar roughly 2 1/2 inches wide by 7 inches long. Reportedly, he amassed a treasure of gold, silver, and jewels before being ordered back to Mexico City in 1607. This was shortly before a much-publicized expedition, entitled Operation Goldfinder, took place at the site in March 1977. Many years later, a man named Milton Ernest Doc Noss spent some time exploring Victorio Peak while on a deer hunt. A third story asserts that Geronimo hid, Apache booty in the area. We took 90 bars stacked by a mine shaft at Victorio Peak and reburied them 10 in a pile scattered throughout the basin with the exception of 30 bars that we buried in a grassy flat near the road we came out on.. The soldiers, Airman First Class Thomas Berlett and Captain Leonard V. Fiege said they had found approximately 100 gold bars weighing between 40 and 80 pounds each in a small cavern. In 1937, the peak was miles from nowhere. That while visiting Foss, a man we both knew, E.M. Guthrie, drove in to the station in a late model Ford Thunderbird. This treasure was only the beginning. According to the security guard, Johnson and Connally headed a team which brought in sophisticated excavation equipment to remove gold from the peak, the most modern Ive ever seen, he said. Among those who attested to the accessibility of the peaks treasure was Lynn Porter, a businessman now residing in San Diego, California. He remained steadfast in his belief that the treasure remained, according to family members. In the summer of 1961, upon the advice of the Director of the Mint, Major General John Shinkle of White Sands allowed Captain Fiege, Captain Orby Swanner, Major Kelly, and Colonel Gorman to work the claim. Dozens of people claim a piece of the actionthat is, gold bars and treasure said to be hidden on the missile range, and worth from a few million dollars to $1.5billion. But in a dispute over the treasure in 1949, the business partner, Charlie Ryan, shot Mr. Noss to death. On the night of March 4, 1949, I went with Doc Noss and dug up 20 bars of gold at a windmill in the desert east of Hatch, New Mexico, and reburied them in the basin where Victorio Peak is. Fearing a Federal swindle at the time, Noss returned to Victoria Peak, carrying out gold bars and hiding them, Mrs. Guthrie said. Acquitted on grounds of selfdefense, Mr. Ryan testified that Doc had promised him 51 bars of gold in return for his $27,000 investment. In addition, Victorio Peak lay on land owned by the state of New Mexico, and removal of gold without permission of the state violated New Mexico law.4. But the matter would not rest. The Victorio Peak treasure (also seen in print as the Treasure of Victorio Peak or Treasure of San Andres) describes a cache of gold reportedly found inside Victorio Peak in 1937 in southern New Mexico . Though the military confirmed that Swanner had served at White Sands during this time, they claimed there were no documents to support an investigation into the mine nor the removal of the gold bars. As Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH . One group of claimants took the flashlight and provided the photo as evidence that they knew the location of the treasure. In 1972, F. Lee Bailey became involved in the dispute, representing some 50 clients, including Babe Noss, the Fiege group, Violet Noss Yancy, Expeditions Unlimited (a Florida-based treasure hunting group), and many others. Each skeleton had its hands bound behind it to a large wooden stake driven into the ground. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. In 1963, the Gaddis Mining Company of Denver, Colorado, obtained permission to work the site under a contract with the Denver Mint and the Museum of New Mexico. Yet that is exactly what happened to Milton "Doc" Noss, a traveling doctor who discovered an extensive cave network laden with gold and historical artifacts or so he claimed. His wife and his two school-age children had also abruptly left. Hiring a mining engineer S.E. At the same time, he concentrated on the gold coins and bars. The gold concentrates by gravity in incised stream valleys and alluvial fans in deeply weathered highlands. Beyond the Hembrillo Basin is a hundred-mile stretch of desert known as the Jornada del Muerto. Additionally, the actual land where Victorio Peak is located was not owned by the State of New Mexico but rather by a man named Roy Henderson, who had leased it to the Army. They also were given and passed lie detector tests. However, the Army placed a two-week time limit on the group, and they had hardly started before they were forced to leave, without finding anything. Following 1937 Story of Buried Gold, Family Searches New Mexico's Sands, https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/29/us/following-1937-story-of-buried-gold-family-searches-new-mexico-s-sands.html. Joe Andregg, an electrician from Santa Fe, New Mexico, reflected on the days when he worked with Doc Noss in the late 1930s. A source interviewed in Mexico stated that it was common knowledge in the towns of Jimenez and Camargo that Johnsons 110,000-acre ranch in Chihuahua served as a storage area for a very large amount of gold flown in by a four-engine, propeller-driven aircraft in the late 1960s. American and foreign car makers have rented land at the installation to test new air bags. For three months beginning on June 20, 1963, the group used various techniques to search the area; however, they failed to turn up anything. A deal with a man named Charlie Ryan went south, and Noss was gunned down. Doc returned with a gold bar, presented it to his wife, Babe, and the couple soon dedicated their lives to exploring Victorio Peak, living in a tent at the base of the mountain in search of treasure. However, the expert won the argument. In the meantime, Mrs. Noss said her spies, illegally visited the peak and found military men excavating it. A narrow passage through rocks kept the bulky Porter from following the other two men into the depths of the peak. Another source confirmed the manner and the circumstances of E.M. Guthries death, noting that it was listed as just a natural death, but hed been worked over with a baseball bat. This source said that he had hired a team of experienced investigators to dig into Guthries death and more than 30 other deaths in connection with a massive, continuing cover-up of the removal of gold from Victorio Peak. Case Background research into the enormous wealth contained in the caverns of Victorio Peak revealed many eyewitness reports of the gold. Yet, Doc trusted no one, not even his Babe, disappearing into the desert, hiding pieces of the treasure in places that he never revealed. Now, scientists confirm it was part of a plunder by Spanish conquistador Hernn. After the discovery, Fiege told several people that he had caved in the roof and walls to make it look like the tunnel ended. The Army, which runs the missile range, required the searchers to put up $150,000 to cover the cost of environmental assessments, as well as increased security forces. However, Noss demanded to see the money before revealing the new hiding place. The horde of an Apache chief? [3] Noss was ultimately killed by an associate, Charley Ryan, in 1949 after Ryan accused Noss of fraud and Noss threatened to kill Ryan and his family. Estimates vary on the number of bars removed, ranging up to 350 or so. That three or four weeks later Frank Foss told me that E.M. had called him and said he was in Central America. Lost Treasures, Recent Posts. Exploring further, he found even more skeletons stacked in a small enclosure, much like a burial chamber. [7], Theories abound on the origins of the alleged treasure, including that it was pilfered from Mexico during the reign of the Austrian puppet Emperor Maximilian, or through collusion between Pancho Villa and Germany prior to World War I.[8]. Where they the plunder of Spanish conquistadores who had conquered the Aztecs? Possession of gold was against the law at the time, and the men reasoned that the bar would provide evidence to bring about an authorized, legal expedition to remove the vast quantity of gold. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Kathy Weiser-Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2021. Mrs. Noss believes Mr. Bailey's clients to be mili tary officers and perhaps some of her husband's old partners. Noss agreed with Ryan to exchange some of the gold bars for $25,000 to reopen the shaft. Later, Fiege would take a lie detector test, which would allow Fiege back on the missile range. We all dream of stumbling onto a map or riddle that will lead us on an adventure to find a treasure of glittering gold and jewels, but most of those tales only exist in bedtime stories and movies. In 1958, Leonard V. Fiege, then an Air Force captain stationed at nearby Holloman Air: Force Base, and three other men, contended that while deer hunting they found a cave filled with gold bars. In a special act of Congress passed in 1989, the Hembrillo Basin was unlocked for Terry Delonas and the Noss heirs; however, nothing has been found. In the spring of 1938, Doc Noss and Babe went to Santa Fe to establish legal ownership of the find, filing a lease with the State of New Mexico for the entire section of land surrounding Victorio Peak. The buying entity was a Middle Eastern principal, Shriver said. He also found some old letters, the most recent of which was dated 1880. Babe then began a regular correspondence with the military requesting permission to work her claim, but she was always denied. The U.S. Army, which gained control of the area when it was converted to a bombing range during the Second World War, refused her request to bring in an excavation firm and ultimately ordered the Nosses to stay out of the area. As far as I'm concerned, I've got more gold in my upper bridge than is in those mountains., The center of interest is Victoria Peak, a 1,500foot hill in the San Andres Mountains on missile range land about 25 miles northeast of Las Cruces. MEXICO CITY A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar found decades ago in downtown Mexico City reveals it was part of the plunder Spanish conquerors tried to carry away . He bolted from the Mescalero reservation in 1879 and camped near Victoria Peak while plundering the countryside and raiding Wells Fargo stagecoaches. The cast of characters ranges from John W. Dean 3d to Geronimo and the vocabulary is marked by double as a prefixas in doublecross, doubletalk and doubledealing. Gold Bar Found Beneath Mexico City was Loot from Cortes' Aztec Retreat. They insisted they were photographed, finger printed, harassed and not al lowed to go near the search area. On the night of March 4, 1949, I went with Doc Noss and dug up 20 bars of gold at a windmill in the desert east of Hatch, New Mexico, and reburied them in the basin where Victorio Peak is. Ova Noss, Leonard Fiege and others dont listen when they are told to shut up and they pay the price. Some believe that Doc Noss found the Casa del Cueva de Oro, Spanish for the House of the Golden Cave. Mr. Bryan, The Albuquerque Tribune writer, said he had gone through a chunk of Mr. Johnson's memorabilia recently and found both the censored and uncensored drafts of the report. When Maxmillian heard of the plot to assassinate him, he moved his gold and treasures out of Mexico. By completing a chemical analysis and determining the particle morphology of placer gold collected from these districts using an electron microprobe, patterns in the chemical signatures from each location can be used to examine chemical variability (1) within the individual placer gold particles, (2) within the same district and (3) among different districts. In 1939, he hired a mining engineer to try to open a wider passage into Victorio Peak, but the attempt was disastrous and there was a massive cave-in. According to Atkins son, John, Holmes possessed key materials which were being used to press the Army into allowing Atkins and Holmes access to Victorio Peak. Doc attempted illegally to sell his gold for nine years, but it wasnt easy finding buyers. Four major groups of claimants accuse the oothers of trying to cheat them out of it. He did, only to find that in the short, three-day interim the major had been whisked away, transferred to the Pentagon. Noss divorced her, charging desertion. Under the direction of Mr. Delonas, the searchers have been analyzing their findings in a temporary office at Las Cruces, about 25 miles south of Victoria Peak. If the treasure was real, Noss had poor timing. The night before his death, perhaps sensing that a business deal was going sour, Doc enlisted the aid of a cowboy named Tony Jolley to shuffle the locations of various stashes of the bars. Many Noss family members and friends believe that the military exploited Babes claim and that the treasure is now gone. A jury ruled that Mr. Ryan had acted in self-defense. They dug under it, and Berlett and Fiege moved past it for another 100 to 125 feet, coming eventually to what Berlett described as a small cavern, approximately eight feet wide by 10 or 12 feet long. After the death of Doc Noss, Ova and her family continued efforts to regain access to the big treasure room. White Sands Missile Range, Legends, Ghosts, Myths and Mysteries Main Page, Byways & Historic Trails Great Drives in America, Soldiers and Officers in American History, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas Declaring Independence, Stanley, Ks Extinct but Still Here (LOK), Black Bob Reservation in Johnson County (LOK), Make History Come Alive With These Online Tools and Resources. [5] The partnership conducted unsuccessful searches until March 1996, when the Army suspended their access. Sensing a double-cross by Ryan, Doc dug up the gold that was to be used in the exchange and reburied it in a place where Ryan was unaware. Ryan was charged with murder but was later acquitted. On the walls were drawings, some painted and others chiseled, that appeared to have been made by Indians. 7 Louisiana Ghost Towns Hidden Deep in the Bayou. A new scientific analysis of a large gold bar found decades ago in downtown Mexico City has confirmed it was part of the plunder Spanish conquistadors abandoned as they beat a temporary. However, White Sands issued an edict expressly forbidding them to return to the base. The Victorio Peak treasure (also seen in print as the Treasure of Victorio Peak or Treasure of San Andres) describes a cache of gold reportedly found inside Victorio Peak in 1937 in southern New Mexico. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victorio_Peak_treasure&oldid=1133710645, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 15 January 2023, at 04:22. Only four districts have each yielded more than 100,000 oz of placer gold production: Elizabethtown-Baldy (DIS019), Hillsboro (DIS197), Old Placers (DIS187), and New Placers (DIS186). Patterson, Don Breech, Edgar F. Foreman, Leo D. OConnell, Eppie Montoya and B.D. In 1981, a worker in Mexico City found a gold bar just north of Alameda Centralthe oldest public park in the Americasduring the construction of a bank. Rare Gold Nuggets. Another concerns renegades who robbed the Monterey Mint in 1743 and were in turn attacked by Apaches. Sam Scott, for example, a retired airline pilot, was warned in 1977 to keep clear of anything regarding Victorio Peak for at least five years under pain of having his home firebombed and his wife and daughter killed. We are a research and service division of: Placer gold deposits were an important source of gold in New Mexico prior to 1902, but placer production after 1902 has been minor. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Others speculate that the treasure could be the missing wealth of Emperor Maxmillian, who served as Mexicos emperor in the 1860s. 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