Wilcox Train Robbery Mexican Silver

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Wilcox Train Robbery Mexican Silver

Lost Treasure AZ • Cochise County County
Description
1895 Southern Pacific express robbery in the Dos Cabezas Mountains near Wilcox used 8,000 Mexican silver coins as dynamite ballast; about 1,000 coins blew into the right-of-way and were never recovered.
Historical Notes
Five miles southwest of Wilcox in the Dos Cabezas Mountains, bandits dynamited an express safe using eight sacks of 1,000 Mexican silver coins each as weight. The blast scattered coins across the area. Roughly 7,000 were recovered; treasure hunters still occasionally find stray coins. Separate Wilcox-area legends include Apache caches in Dutch ovens near Mountain Springs and Black Jack Ketchum loot.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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