Rosita Creek Ranch Payroll — Duval County

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Rosita Creek Ranch Payroll — Duval County

Lost Treasure TX • Duval County County
Description
Rosita Valley legend of a ranch payroll or specie hoard buried along Rosita Creek near Freer — the watercourse where well-diggers Paul and Joe White settled around 1900.
Historical Notes
Rosita Creek flows through the valley where Freer later rose. Brothers Paul and Joe White settled in the Rosita Creek valley around 1900 to dig water wells for local ranchers; Harry and Arthur Lundell arrived in 1905 and August H. Kramer in 1908. Houston promoter C. W. Hahl marketed the Rosita Valley Rancho in the 1910s, drawing Oklahoma and Kansas settlers. Ranch-payroll and homesteader-cache folklore is common where sheep and cattle empires met dry-country farming. Coordinates approximate Rosita Creek valley west of Freer in Duval County.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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