Don Joaquin’s Lost Gold
Greg Hawk • August 12, 2021
Don Joaquin’s Lost Gold was one of the treasure stories that I read in John D. Mitchell’s book, “Lost Mines & Buried Treasures Along the Old Frontier.”
In it he tells the story of a Spaniard, named Don Joaquin Campos from Guadalajara, and his crew that were mining in the Sierra Estrella Mountains around 1840. As Mitchell tells the story a rider came into Don Joaquin’s camp where he had a stone house and mines telling him that the U.S. Army was coming and taking over all the mines. Don Joaquin quickly loaded up all his burros with 1,500 lbs. of gold bars and nuggets and headed out of the mountains. The load was too heavy to move fast so he buried all the gold in the back of an old cave thinking he would come back some day to retrieve it. Mitchell goes on to say that the gold is still buried somewhere in a cave in the Sierra Estrella Mountains even today. The mountains are located just southwest of present-day Phoenix.
In this video I bring up other stories written about the same old rock house and mine that Mitchell talked about. Each story is a little different and I will show and tell you about the research I have done trying to get to the truth of the story. The question remains as to who built the rock house and when?
In the video I will give you some directions and coordinates to get to the trailhead and old rock house. We will also hike up the canyon to show you the rock house, the mine shaft and what looks to be an old, stacked stone corral.
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