A Mexican millionaire and government official during the Great Depression of the 1930's, Leon Trabuco imagined himself going down in history as one of the richest men in the world. To make more money than he already had, he decided to buy up tons of gold and cashing in when the price went up. He ended up with 16 tons - gold bars, coins and jewelry that he kept at his foundry in Mexico.
Since gold was more valuable in the U.S., he wanted a place there where he could transport the gold. He would hide it in the United States with hopes of recovering it later as the price approached his desired level. In 1933 Trabuco had Red Mosier, a pilot fly to Farmington, New Mexico. Mosier ended up making 16 flights to Farmington with the gold.
From Farmington, Trabuco planned to ship all the gold by truck to his secret spot. Supposedly, the burial spot was near the Ute and Navajo Indian Reservations in New Mexico. Unfortunately, the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 was enacted. Possession of gold was then illegal thanks to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Talk about a backfire! At this point all of the gold flown in and buried in the desert had no value.
Eventually, Trabuco and his partners all died taking the secret burial spot to their graves. Later a man by the name of Ed Foster is said to have searched for Trabuco’s lost gold for 35 years. Mr. Foster claimed that he found the landing strip that Red Mosier had used to land his airplane with gold shipments on. He also claims he found a Mexican-style home twenty miles west of Mesa Verde.
Foster also claims he found an outcropping of rocks with the words 1933 and "sixteen tons carved into it." I think 1933 may be carved at a number of old Arizona mine sites due to the mining venture was useless at that point. I have seen a different one myself. The outcropping above he called Shrine Rock. He believes that somewhere in between outcropping, landing strip, and Mesa Verde the treasure is buried or maybe possibly hidden in a cave. Anyone who finds it may be very surprised at the value of the hoard.
Here is a super video on the Trabuco treasure (redirect works) -
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