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Two Saddles Treasure
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The Two Saddles Treasure (also known as the Trinidad Treasure) is one of Washington State’s most enduring lost-gold legends. In 1876, the Welch family returned from months of successful gold prospecting in Canada, reportedly carrying an enormous fortune in gold. Fearing theft while traveling through Central Washington, the family is believed to have buried the treasure somewhere along their route. Despite decades of searching, shifting stories, and modern obstacles, including areas later flooded by dam construction, the gold has never been found. Whether fact, folklore, or a blend of both, the Two Saddles Treasure remains a tantalizing mystery of the Old West.
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Introduction to Mysteries and Mayhem in the Pacific Northwest
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Reflecting on Podcasting and New Year's Resolutions
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Welcome. I don't even know what episode this is. What episode is this? Oh my gosh, don't ask me that.
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Having so much fun, they're all blurring together. Counting is hard. We're past 10. I've ran out of fingers.
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We are not math geniuses here. an autoer So we just got done with the New Year's. Do you have any New Year's resolutions?
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not really. I'm not very good at New Year's resolutions, but I do have like a couple of goals and things that I like. Yeah. Goals for this year. Yeah. I like to frame it as goals too. Cause I feel like New Year's resolution, i'm automatically this isn't going work.
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which is not good, but think my big one this year is budget. I think everything's getting so expensive. I gotta, yeah, I really got to start sticking to my budget a little bit more.
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Absolutely. Yeah. I have i don't know, more fitness-y goals. i I decided that for my 30th birthday, I want to run a marathon. So I'm going start training for that.
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That's like soon, isn't it? Yeah. Well, it'll be 29 next month. So I'm going to give myself a year to get into running. I've kind of run, but not much.
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Why did i feel like? I seem older. You seem older, but you also read newspapers at seven years old. So that makes sense. No, first I didn't realize I was so much older than you.
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Yeah. Yeah. You're ancient. Almost 10 years older than you pretty much. Yeah. That's great. Seven. Whatever. doesn't matter That's exciting though. What marathon are you going to do?
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I was actually looking that up this morning trying to get a better time frame. So the Seattle Marathon is in November, which is a little late in the year and a little cold if I'm being honest. So I was looking for some a couple a little bit earlier. There's one up Whidbey, I think, that you run over the Deception Pass Bridge, which I thought would be really sick.
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That'd be really pretty. Yeah. pretty done So it's not like just pavement and buildings. It's actually fresh air. You're not breathing. Yeah. Yeah. yeah that that That could be a good one. There's also a couple of other ones around that are still on the table, but we shall see.
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My grandpa did a half marathon at like 79 at the Portland half marathon. And he averaged... Like 13, he was walking and he averaged 13 minute miles.
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Isn't that fast? What? That's a fast walk. Oh my gosh. Yeah. He's also six, five or something crazy. Six, three, six, four, six, five, something like that. So he's got long legs, but still that's so fast. And at 70, over that's. Yeah.
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So cool. That's pretty speedy. That's what really cool. Yeah. Nice. Good for him. I'm excited for you, though. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I'll keep you all updated on how it goes.
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Well, speaking of trails and things and routes, I have a treasure hunt, which is kind of like... falling rough wait just before we get started can i give a little shout out of course our our youngest fan my little nephew simon he's listening to our podcast i love it hi simon he is a month old he's sleeping through it our our voices and our stories just soothe him right to sleep our dulcet tones
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hi yeah Oh, I, do you have any more pictures? I do have more pictures. send them to you. You'll send them on way. He's such a cutie. No. But hi, Simon. Hi,
The Tale of the Two Saddles Treasure
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Simon. i What a cutie. Oh, I was a month old listener.
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Yes. I'm so excited. I feel like we need to send him a onesie. my gosh. Yes, we do. Absolutely. All right. Well, welcome to the club. Simon, you're our youngest moss goblin because I've decided to call you all that.
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Yeah, I'm so excited. Okay. well Let's talk about some treasures, shall we? Yes, we shall. okay I will say this is back in the Wild West. So i don't I think I had a flight of fancy for a little bit where I decided to write this as if I was a Wild West writer. So there's a lot rootin' tootin' and tooutten and saddle up partner, but I'm going to try to skip over that. But if it does come out, I apologize, everyone. this is I took it too far. And I understand that I took a too far.
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yes Jesse, the true artiste of us. Literally the first line I wrote was, so saddle up partners and lend it here for this tale of the two saddles. My cowboy hat.
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Where's your hat? You should. You need that Miller Lite baby. Yeah.
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oh man okay i'm not gonna do that i'm gonna try to cut it out but if it comes up because my script is written literally front to back like that i apologize uh but today i'm gonna tell you about two saddles treasure or what's also known as the trinidad treasure have you ever heard i have not heard of this how do you feel about treasure hunts i am super into treasure hunts to i did an escape room recently which i feel like is kind of a treasure hunt and So into it.
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Which one did you do? we did this one. It's, so it's actually, it's super cool. It is, it's like a pixie, a pixie taking over this tavern. Okay. And there's like three escape rooms in this, like,
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You know, like the building. And they're all like part of the same story. Like they all connect. Ooh, that sounds fun. Right? Yeah, it's super cool. And they did such a good job. And i was like, yeah, everything was really awesome.
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Like I was very, very impressed. Where was it at? It was in Kent. Ooh, okay. I'm gonna have to look that one up. Yeah. I feel like like you guys would really like it. I do love mythical creatures and pixies and fairies. I'm all about that life. Yeah.
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Yeah, I actually read my first book of the new year. Already three days in. Nice. Yeah. i powered through this book and it's called, the house on the cerulean sea. And it's kind of like, uh, what are the words for it?
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Like it's got some fairies. It's got some magic. It's kind of, I like, I don't know. I used to be only exclusively like murder mysteries and somehow I've pivoted to, is it science fiction and fairies and like fantasy? Yeah. Fantasy novels. I don't know where this has happened, but I'm fucking into it.
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Yeah. Anyways. Oh, anyways, back to treasure treasure. So Two Saddles Treasure or Trinidad Treasure. So we're going to rewind back to 1876. And this is, you know, still in the wilds of the Washington Territory. It's not officially a state yet.
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Okay. Really rough and tumble. Most people in this, in Washington at the time, were were loggers or there's a huge mining boom right now as well. But at the same time, there's a lot of...
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Native American and American skirmishes because we're trying to force Native Americans and by we, I mean, United States force Native Americans onto reservations. and There's like a lot of kickback. There's also a lot of anger from the Native Americans that white people and Chinese persons that are that are here to mine are destroying the natural beauty of this area because my job and rivers are getting polluted. And there's just a lot of discontent here. But For one family, the Welch family, they had traveled from Portland, Oregon up to Canada at the Fraser River to mine for gold.
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And while there, they were there for five months, they worked super hard and were able to unearth over $85,000 dollars. worth of gold or 200 pounds of gold. Some, there's a little bit of difference, but
Challenges and Failures in Treasure Recovery
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either way they amassed a wealth between 2.5 million and $5 million dollars in today's money.
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Wow. Which is a ton. That's impressive. Yeah. yeah Yeah. And so after, you know, they've made this King's ransom, they decided that I don't, we don't need to to bust our backs anymore. We're done prospecting. We're going head back down to Portland and we're going to make our, our life there. So with their pockets really heavy, the Welch family decided it was time to ride home. They opted out of taking a train because there wasn't one consistent train. It would be really kind of slow moving. And then also they just wanted to to do it as fast as possible. So they decided to hire a Native American guide
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The Welch family, along with two other one one to two other people, depending on the source, decided to head down back to Portland. So from Canada, Fraser River, through what I think they took is the Okanagan Trail. It's not verified, but based on you know where this treasure ends up and where they went to after, I think they took the Okanagan Trail.
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down through the eastern part of Washington at the very bottom they follow the Columbia River down to Vancouver and then crossed across there it was John Welch his wife and then Anna was was the daughter so i huh a hey and this treasure could be yours because it still hasn't been found o Don't tell that.
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Going on the road trip. but New hobby. That's my New Year's resolution, my New Year's goal. Actually, yes. $5 million dollars for sure. So, yes, this group of people decides they they they start out from Fraser, Canada, and and they're working the word damn.
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So the Welch family consists of John, his wife, and and Anna, their daughter. They decide to go from Fraser down the Okanagan Trail and then over to Vancouver, then down into Portland with their treasures. They have two other peoples in this in this group besides the Native American guide. and They think that everything's going well. They start off, everything's going great until they get about around Quincy in eastern Washington. There was also used to be a town called Trinidad back in the day there as well.
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and Yes, it's kind of farther out from where they were, but Trinidad is in the general area. It's now a ghost town, but fun facts. So, tensions were high higher than than normal, and this is again where the reason why I'm stumbling so much is because I wrote, tensions were higher than a rattlesnake in a rabbit hole.
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Where did I even come up with that sentence? I'm not quite sure. So that's cool. so know It's like a fever dream. thank you were just You were in it. I was too committed. Okay, so Chief Moses of the Columbia tribes was like standing firm against the government, refusing to go to the Yakima reservation. And actually, Chief Moses was rallying with other...
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tribes at the time, which was the Wendachi, Okanagan, Mathau, Shillan, and all and six other plateau tribes. They banded together at this point. And this is when they really started to fight back. And this is why all of the tension was growing is because they were, they were pissed off that we were taking their land and forcing them somewhere else. And they were pissed off that, you know, settlers were coming in and and stripping their land of the minerals that they could be using.
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you So by the time the Welch's hit the Trinidad Bar, which is near Quincy, along the Columbia River, the region was super dangerous and anyone carrying gold, particularly prospectors, was
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were not in a good light, particularly because the Native American tribes blamed some Chinese miners for the death of Chief Moses's brother. And in 1875, a war party of Native Americans slaughtered more than 300
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prospectors. Oh, wow. in attack in In an attack that kind of sent shivers throughout the entire territory, especially if you're a prospector and you have money and you're coming through. So seeing the peril that was ahead of them, the Welch's family and Native American guide decided, you know,
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we need to do something pretty drastic or we're all going to lose our lives. So they decided, or the guide asked John Welch to bury his gold somewhere that he could come back and get it at a later time. Because right now they were, they could tell that there was Native American activity in the area and they were running across some things that were pretty brutal, like some killed horses. They could tell there was like a war here soon or there was something had happened in the immediate area. And if they were caught with gold or like a lot of money, they would be impacted as well.
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Gotcha. John decided to take the advice of the guide and bury the gold and valuables just off the trail. So he saddled up two of his pack horses with all of their supplies and treasures and rode to a steep basalt cliff overlooking the Columbia River.
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It's estimated that that was about eight miles south of Quincy. Okay. There he dug two holes. In the first hole went two saddles, aka two saddles treasure.
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So in this first hole, he's got two saddles. He's got his daughter's hairbrush, some combs, ribbons, a rosewood block box with personal papers and other keepsakes. And then he marked this particular section with a stone monument.
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Okay. Then after walking a short distance from there, some say that it's 20 paces in some direction. They're not quite sure, but that is where he put the gold itself.
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So this is where like $2.5 million dollars was actually placed. Gotcha. My question though, that I have, why did you bury your daughter's hairbrush? Was it like, was there something very special? Like, was it made out of gold? Was it made out of some other precious metal?
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was just super sentimental, like family heirloom. It must have been because, but then ribbons as well. Like why? I feel like that's, I don't know if I would, I wasn't there. So i don't know. So in the second spot, he buried the gold and then he returned or Before he returned, he made a a rough map, a rough sketch of what this area looked like and where the two different holes were so that he could come back and get his treasure. And then he rides back into camp. That must have been the worst ride back.
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Yeah. I could not imagine leaving all of my money and everything yeah in some holes. Yeah. And I'm not even sure where I'm at. Like there's a generalized area of Quincy, but he doesn't for sure know where this is at, where they are. Yeah. Well, I but i imagine like at that point at that time too, there weren't as many land, like specific landmarks.
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Yes. Because I mean, that's, that area is pretty like rural today. and it's, yeah, like I imagine your landmark is like, An interesting rock, a cool tree maybe, but like there's not a ton of like like rivers or creeks or like, i don't know, very distinct things.
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Yes. And he, where he buried it, it's just, he's saying there was a basalt cliff and there was a cave and there was like a stream feeding from this cave. And I'm like, that is miles and miles of the Columbia river. I'm not really sure I could pinpoint that on a map.
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Yeah. So he draws a crude map and then he, he goes back to camp. soon after that he arrived back to camp the guide vanishes never to be seen again he just leaves and that night a war party struck the welch family and then the two companions that they had essentially had they were hiding in this cliff side essentially from these warriors for three days until they they left and when the family finally emerged
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they thought that the Native Americans were gone, but they were not. They were just waiting down the road for them to continue on. So they were captured by these warriors. But after rifling through their packs, they found, hey these aren't prospectors. They don't have any gold. They don't have anything of monetary value.
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And they're traveling with a woman and and a child. So we'll let you go, which is actually pretty unusual of the time. Yeah. People that were came into contact, you know, there was no mercy. To which I kind of say, like, I kind of understand. i
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Forcing someone into a land and then stripping all their recess resources from
Anna Welch's Legendary Search
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them. And we were probably, no, for sure, white people were awful. yeah I mean, tears, all that. So, I mean, i I understand, but they got really lucky. They were allowed to continue.
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Because the Warriors didn't see them as an immediate threat. So obviously Welch is pretty desperate to reclaim his fortune because he's got nothing. Like everything he has are in these two holes. And so when he gets back to Oregon, he doesn't have anything to even buy a house. So on the way back through the Okanagan Trail, they actually go through Fort Vancouver. and He went up to the the base commander and was like, hey, can you please take me, have a guided escort go back to where I buried my treasure? I will compensate you for this. I just, I need that money.
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But the officer in charge, however... said he didn't have the soldiers to accommodate his requests and they were just spread too, too thin. And then with all of the conflicts in that particular area, he wasn't willing to, you know, put other lives at risk. So he he said no.
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And so the Welsh family just had to keep it moving. Oh my gosh. Wouldn't that be awful? Yeah. I would, my stomach would be in knots. Oh my God. It's like kind of twofold. Cause like,
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He also had to know that like if he had still had that treasure on him, like him and his family would have died, you know? 100%. And then it – yeah. But then you're like, now I'm destitute. When I get back to Oregon, I've got nothing.
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Yeah. And I spent a significant portion of my life digging for this this treasure essentially. Yes. So they just, they, since the, the areas in total disarray, they decided to just continue on to Portland and try to eke out a living.
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So the years are rolling by and by 1903, John Welch decides, hey, I need to go back north and I need to find my treasure. I'm tired of living paycheck to paycheck. I have all this money. I need to go find this. So by this time, it's 1903. The plateau is calmer. Washington is officially a state now. But again, two decades has passed at this point. The land is probably significantly changed. Yeah.
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Canyons have shifted, rivers have new paths, particularly because of all the mining that's going on, and the familiar landmarks that he remembered are gone.
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Oh no. And so he goes to Trinidad at the time in 1904 and he recruits, he goes to a hotel and he recruits the hotel owner's son to be like their guide because apparently he has a lot of knowledge of the area. And so the son who was only 14, which is crazy. Yeah. Yeah.
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leads them to a generalized area of what Mr. Welch was describing. So he's like, I need to find a canyon that's on a basalt cliff. It's right by the Columbia river. And it's in this general area.
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There's a cave there and there's a nearby stream that feeds into the Columbia river here. And that is where my treasure is, is stored. And so they scour the countryside for six weeks.
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Six weeks. Wow. Wow. wow They're unable to find it.
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So, yeah. So i think did could they find the area that looks similar and just not find the treasure? or could they just not find the area at all? They couldn't find the area at all. So they decided to just go essentially from where they thought the start was and then just scour everything and like keep a map of everywhere they've searched through this cliff. But still six weeks into it, they didn't find anything. And now it's like becoming winter. It's a little too cold.
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He has to leave. So he goes back to Portland without... Anything. But then he keeps coming back. Every year he comes back for three more years to try to find this treasure.
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Wow. Still not able to find it. Then unfortunately he dies. Oh. and But he passes his treasure map off to his daughter Anna.
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And Anna, undaunted as as this Anna, know spent years searching for this as well. So she would go every year. She would go for four to six weeks at a time, scouring all of the canyons for these two saddles that her father buried. She's specifically looking for the hole with the two saddles in it because she says, from there, I'll be able to count out 20 paces and find the actual treasure. So she's still sticking to this 20 paces.
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But again, she dug tirelessly, hunted for marked graves, rock piles, and signs that her father had left behind that he told her about. In fact, she went back so many times that town folk in Trinidad at the time in Quincy, like she became like a running joke.
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Like there was lots of whispers about her, lots of scoffs. If you were hired as one of her guides, they'd be like, oh, you're on a fool's errand. You're just going to take this poor lady's money and and get nothing in return. Like became a huge, huge joke and saying that she was just running after some fool's gold.
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And then unfortunately, six years, after six years, she was just exhausted by searching for this this treasure and she decided to just lay it to rest and she passed away in Portland in 1929. The treasure still not found.
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Oh my gosh. So everyone thought, you know, this was the end of it, especially those in Trinidad. They're like, it became a myth, a legend, some lore. But then six years after she passed away, two trappers were prowling the basalt bluffs and stumbled upon a cave.
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And they decided to set up a coyote snare in this cave. And... left. When they came back, they did in fact catch a coyote. And while he was trying, while this coyote was trying to get out of the snare, he dug really deep into this canyon.
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And when he dug, they looked and they saw a bit of leather and they were kind of confused what this leather was. And so they decided to uncover it more. And beneath the dirt, they uncovered a so A first saddle, then a second saddle.
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No. Then a box containing personal papers, a rosewood box, a child's hairbrush, ribbons, a long semi-pipe, horse bells, and other keepsakes.
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No way. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that belonged to the Welch's. William, one of the trappers told the Wenatchee Daily World reporter, Webley and I heard much about Miss Tuttle and her exploit explorations in the search of buried gold, but never took any stock in the proposition until we set a trap for a coyote in a cave that had hollowed out the rocks in a pothole about a mile from the river near Samira and thus uncovered the catches of hidden articles.
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So essentially... They were looking in the wrong area. Anna was looking in the wrong area. She was a little too far south. Oh. And so the weird thing is the gold still hasn't been found.
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Really? yes So legends say it has never been surfaced, but it's supposed to be within walking distance of where those two saddles were. She was adamant that it's 20 paces away.
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The guides who helped Anna offered no clues. And the secret essentially of the Welch treasure has faded through the years. The Trinidad Hotel, which was kind of the middle point where everyone left from, burned down.
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And all of the, when it burned down, all of the people that were associated with this treasure hunt was kind of lost to time because there was no, you know, they would mark in their registry book and a title here with guides X, Y, and Z to help look for the treasure. When the hotel burned down, they had no way of knowing who her guide was and to see where they were looking or if they had any insight into the the map of how many paces away and in what direction.
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People did try to look for it, never could find it.
Enduring Mysteries and Listener Engagement
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By 1963, floodwaters from the newly constructed Monopam Dam swallowed much of the land where the treasure might have been.
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they were eventually by 1964 able to locate Van Syke, which was the hotel owner's son that first went out with John and he insisted the treasure laid on the, or when he was talking to John, John was saying, my treasure is buried high on a bluff above the Columbia river. So he thinks that it's still safe from the dam's rise in the river. He thinks that you'll still be able to find this gold.
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And that's where the the mystery ends today. It's still deep in lore in the area, but no one has found this treasure. So do we know exactly where they found the saddles at?
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They have a generalized idea, but there's not like a pin. So to this day, there's not an exact mark of where this is at. And no one's been able to find it. Oh my gosh.
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So I feel like I need to find it. Yes. No. We're going to pause the podcast for a bit. Go treasure hunting. All right. I'm going to become a prospector of sorts. Yes. yeah so as you line yourself Yeah. So if you find yourself roaming some basalt cliffs near box canyons near Quincy, you know, maybe bring a metal detector with you. I don't know. Does gold ping on a metal detector?
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I don't know. Because I feel like maybe i if it would, people be all over there. Oh, yeah. But anyways, so yeah, that's the legend of the Two Settles Treasure. And, you know, you might be able to make yourself a millionaire overnight if you live near Quincy.
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That's amazing. I've never heard of this before, like at all. Isn't it kind of wild? I never heard of it either. But just five million just chilling in the, well, that's like the high end. But either way. What if it's two million?
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Well, even if it's just I don't know, hey, I found this treasure that's been hidden for ages. that's so cool. the notoriety that comes with it. I love it. I know. But I wonder now if you did find it, could you keep that money? Or would it be considered like a national or part of I don't know.
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Would it be like historical claim or something that? I don't know. I feel like i will feel you could auction it off. I feel like you'd have to. Yeah. Anyways, but yeah, so I thought that was super interesting. It immediately made me want, I said, to to buy a metal detector and go find this treasure. Yeah, if it wasn't wintertime, I'd be over there tomorrow.
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Yes, but I would love to hear from people in Quincy or like around Quincy if you if this is this legend is still told or like if people still go and try and find this. Yeah. It's really hard to find information on this particular thing.
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I have some family over there. I might start doing some calling and texting trying to figure out. Hey, I'll need you to look up the archives for the Wendatty Times and let me know where this was found.
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And I'm going to need you to start doing like 20 paces from everywhere and put some posts and I'll be there. Yes. Yes. Can I live with you guys for a couple months while I go find this buried treasure, please? Four to six weeks. It's fine. It's fine.
00:29:28
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00:29:41
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Conclusion and Call to Adventure
00:29:42
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Thank you for the story, Jess. That was really fun. Absolutely. Absolutely. That's it for today's dive into the dark corners of the Pacific Northwest. If you love the stories or shivered a little, be sure to subscribe and follow so you don't miss what's lurking beneath the evergreens next time.
00:29:57
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Thanks for joining us on Beneath the Evergreens. We appreciate you diving into the mysteries with us. Until next time, keep your treasure eyes open. And your doors may be unlocked.
00:30:09
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If there's treasure, we found. yeah I love it. Bye. Bye.