White Cliffs Lost Gold Ledge

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White Cliffs Lost Gold Ledge

Lost Treasure UT • Kane County County
Description
Southern Utah lost-ledge legend of a V-shaped cleft in the White Cliffs hiding quartz stalactites laden with gold — found once by Warren Peters in 1891 but never relocated after hostile ranchers tampered with prospectors' guns.
Historical Notes
Prospector George Brankerhoff told a young John Lorenzo Hubbell in 1870 about a cavern near Deer Springs Wash with gold-caked quartz icicles; Hubbell searched for weeks without success. Warren Peters knocked down twenty-inch stalactites in May 1891, sold the gold in Salt Lake City, but could not find the crevice on his return; a cowboy mob drove off a 1892 expedition. Rumor holds the entrance was blasted shut. The area is now largely within protected federal lands where treasure hunting is prohibited.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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