Seven Cabins Outlaw Diggins — Lincoln County

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Seven Cabins Outlaw Diggins — Lincoln County

Lost Treasure NM • Lincoln County County
Description
Capitan Mountains legend of outlaw treasure diggings at Seven Cabins — a remote hideout west of Roswell where strangers in a Model T unearthed a mysterious object in the early 1900s.
Historical Notes
Guy Crandall's "Was It Buried Treasure? — Seven Cabins Diggins Still a Mystery," republished by the Roswell Daily Record in 2019, describes strangers who borrowed a wagon at Spindle, dug near pine trees at the abandoned cabin row, and hauled away a tarp-covered object. McFarland kin later found fresh holes and an iron kettle. Rumor held Seven Cabins was an outlaw gang hideout deserted when Dan McFarland arrived in the Capitans in the 1880s. TreasureNet hunters from Roswell have sought partners to metal-detect the site high in the Capitan Mountains roughly fifty miles west of town. Related statewide entry: "Capitan Mountains Aztec Treasure" documents a separate cave-hoard tradition in the same range. Coordinates approximate the Seven Cabins site in the Capitan Mountains of Lincoln County.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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