Lost Treasure Anthology - ARIZONA Treasure Stories Volume-I (digital downloadable book) This digital book contains 16 different stories -- over 100+ pages -- all dedicated to Arizona Treasures! Anthology: This Anthology is a collection of published stories, by multiple authors, in a book format. It was compiled from the Archives of one or more of our six publications: Lost Treasure – Treasure Cache – Treasure Facts – Treasure World – True Treasure – Rockhound.

Treasure Tales and Treasure Stories About Arizona from the Archives of Lost Treasure Magazine

Cibola Cave

Q: Is the old Spanish Mine Oceanic being worked and where is the Cibola Cave located in Arizona? C. E. Byrd, Bond, Miss.

A: There is a rumor of a big deal on to work the Oceanic mine.

There are several Cibola Caves in Arizona, but I think you must mean a cave reputed to be the ancient site of the Seven Cities of Cibola, so-called in 1539 by Fray Marcos, who never even saw them. The cities in question are located on a series of red-walled mesas starting south of Lupton, Arizona, and extending southeast into New Mexico. They were inhabited by the Zunis in Coronado's time and were abandoned shortly before the Pueblo Indian Rebellion of 1680. The Zunis hid gold and silver and some sacred church vessels in a cave under the mesa. They have never been retrieved, or so the story goes .

The town of Cibola is 50 miles north of Yuma and the cave, also named Cibola, is directly east in the Trigo Mountains. It is supposed to contain gold nuggets which the Yuma Indians brought out several times in years past.