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The outlaws Three Fingered Jack and Joaquin Murrieta buried astrongbox containing 250 pounds of gold nuggets worth$140,000 on the banks of the Feather River, a few miles S ofParadise. This hoard was never recovered.The outlaw JoaquinMurrieta is credited with burying over $250,000 in loot before hewas killed in 1853. In one of his forays, he robbed a stagecoachof several hundred of pounds of gold nuggets which he buriedin a canyon a few miles S of Paradise along the Feather Riverwhere, according to Wells Fargo officals, it remains to this day.Most of the treasure stolen by Murrieta and his gang was cachedin the area of their robberies, primarily in Shasta and CalaverasCounties. Much has yet to be found.

$150,000 worth of gold nuggets weighing 250 pounds, alongwith valuables and cash stolen from stagecoach passengers,was buried on the muddy banks of the Feather River near therobbery and massacre site, 5 miles S of paradise.

The Langley family operated a paying gold mine at (GT)Cherokee in the 1860's in the Cherokee Hills. In their workingsthey found a sizeable quanity of raw diamonds and hadaccumulated quite a large amount of gold dust and nuggets. TheLangley's hid 2 saddlebags filled with their raw gold and

diamonds about 1/2 hour's horseback ride upthe creek abovetheir camp for safekeeping. The family was attacked by banditsand the brother who hid the treasure was killed. Not knowingexactly where the cache was made, the family never recoveredthe treasure. The remains of an arrastre and a wash-out dammark the location of the old Langley campsite today.Charles B. Sterling was a rancher and miner in 1849. He buried$5,000 in gold dust contained in a gin bottle in the banks of a

slough near French Crossing on Butte Creek for safekeepingwhile he took a wagonload of produce into the mountains wherehe panned for gold. His stay was longer than usual and when hereturned he found that a fire had swept the area and obliteratedhis landmarks. He searched for, but never found, his bottle ofgold

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In 1849, Granville Swift settled at Bidwells Bar and hired a largenumber of Indians to mine his property. The mined gold wasplaced in earthen jars and buried somewhere on the property. Heonce made the remark that he had hidden so many jars that hecould not remember either the exact number, or their locations.Swift died in 1864. All sorts of mysterious holes appeared on hisland and around his old stone cabin. A few of his jars werefound, but the majority of seekers came, dug and departedempty-handed. An unknown number of gold-filled jars still awaitrecovery.

A retired, highly-successful prospector converted all of his goldinto gold coins and settled at Yankee Hill where he buried hishoard in the corner of the house. He accidently knocked over anoil lamp and the house burned to the ground. A neighbor tried tohelp the badly injured man, but he refused medical attention but,instead, asked for help to dig up his money. The neighborassisted in uncovering a tub full of coins, then went for help.When the neighbor returned, the old man was dead and the tubmissing, presumably reburied somewhere in the area during hisabsence. It has yet to be found

Pioneer Peter Lassen became a very wealthy landowner andrancher in the 1820's and amassed thousands of acres along theS bank of Deer Creek. He is known to have buried his coins and

dust in iron pots on his property near his home, at theconfluence of Deer Creek and the Sacremento River at Vina oralong the Lassen Trail which follows Deer Creek. Lassen waskilled by Piute Indians at the age of 30 and his treasure hoardwas never found