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Lost Treasure Anthology - TEXAS Treasure Stories Volume-I
(digital downloadable book)
This digital book contains 22 different stories -- over 100+ pages -- all dedicated to
Texas 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.
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Treasure Tales and Treasure Stories About Texas from the Archives of Lost Treasure Magazine
Pancho Villa's Hidden Caches
From State Treasure Tales
By Michael Paul Henson
From page 47 of the December 1984 issue of Lost Treasure magazine.
Copyright ©1984, 1998 Lost Treasure, Inc.
For those interested in searching for the hidden caches of Pancho Villa in Texas, one of these five locations could prove profitable.
In August, 1956, an old Mexican woman was admitted to the Imperial County Hospital in El Centro, Calif., suffering from near prostration. She asked to see the agent in charge of veterans affairs in the area. In her sworn deposition, the woman said her name was Dolores Agilero Vasquez, age 76, and that she had been a colonel in charge of the nurses of Pancho Villa's army from 1913 to 1916. She stated that Villa had buried $1.5 million in five locations in Texas. Here are the treasure locations Col. Dolores Agilero Vasquez named:
1. A cache of undetermined value is buried beneath a headstone in an old cemetery in Corpus Christi.
2. On a ranch near Cinenia are four patches of desert that outline a square. In this square are buried several saddlebags of gold.
3. Near Roma is a lime pit with a cache nearby valued at $500,000.
4. Three or four miles west of Robstown was a slaughterhouse. Nearby is a gully-and here is another cache.
5. Coming into San Antonio from the southwest, the first church with high walls is another treasure site. Money is buried 15 feet west from an orange tree in the church yard.
Why didn't the colonel recover at least some of the treasure for herself?
Her answer was that she was afraid to go near the treasures so long as any of Villa's men remained alive. Thinking she was dying, she wished to will the treasure to America's disabled veterans. As far as can be learned, none of these caches have been found.
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