Castle Gate Payroll Robbery Loot

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Castle Gate Payroll Robbery Loot

Lost Treasure UT • Carbon County County
Description
1897 Carbon County legend of Butch Cassidy and Elza Lay seizing roughly $8,000 in Pleasant Valley Coal Company payroll gold in broad daylight at Castle Gate — loot never recovered and widely believed cached along the Outlaw Trail.
Historical Notes
On April 21, 1897, two cowboys held up the paymaster and guards transferring three payroll bags from the train to the company office in Castle Gate, Price Canyon. Cassidy and Lay cut telegraph lines and fled south toward Robbers Roost before pursuers lost them near Spring Canyon country. Legends of America and regional outlaw histories treat the unrecovered double-eagles as one of Utah's best-documented train-robbery treasure tales.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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