Pancho Villa

I do believe that old Pancho hide some caches along both sides of the border but I also think that a lot of it was recovered soon after his death by people close to him. I am very surprised that the KGC conspiracy boys have not tried to tie Poncho to the KGC like every other cache worth more the 37 cents. Am also surprised that the sign and mark bunch have not jumped on this since there are scratches on rocks all along the border.     
1 Whether or not Pancho Villa buried looted wealth in the El Paso area has long been disputed. There have been many stories that are well-documented that during the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa, strongman of Mexico, spent some time in and around El Paso. He is alleged to have attended dances and gone to the Paso Del Norte Hotel for lunch and dinner on a fairly regular basis. There are even stories that after his death, his body was exhumed and his head was cut from his body by Soldiers of Fortune (who were apparently not overly well-stocked in the brains department) who wanted to claim the reward offered by the U.S. Government for ?his head?. According to some versions of the story, his severed head was brought to the Paso Del Norte Hotel by these Soldiers of Fortune who then notified authorities to bring the money as they had Villa?s head. These adventurers were thoroughly disillusioned when told that the reward had been for Villa?s entire body, not just his head and since he was now dead, the reward had been cancelled. Not really knowing what to do with a rotting head, the adventurers eventually buried Pancho Villa?s head on the hotel property and left to conquer other worlds.
2 Many stories have long persisted that he buried one or more treasures on the northern side of the Mexican Border. Some stories insist that at least one treasure and possibly more were buried in the Franklin Mountains. Hundreds of would-be treasure hunters have whiled away days, week, months and even years searching diligently for this hidden wealth. A large number of life-long residents of El Paso, which included a large number of expert treasure hunters, believed these stories to have a factual basis. One of the most persistent stories is about an agent of Villa?s burying a large amount of gold, silver and jewels in the Franklin Mountains.
Because the President of Mexico could not contain Pancho Villa he decided to give him the State of Durango in Mexico and five million pesos a year to keep him appeased and stop his bandit activities. Pancho Villa apparently amassed a fortune over the years, thanks to El Presidente and his own looting and it is said that he hid this fortune in the floor of a cave in the Sierra Madre Mountains in northern Mexico.

This particular fortune is supposed to consist of ?stacks upon stacks of gold bars along with bag after bag of American and Mexican coins? totaling a whopping 90 million dollars. Maybe Pancho Villa was a member of the KGC! Just kidding!

Pancho Villa allegedly took this huge fortune of gold bars and coins into the Sierra Madres on wagons with his trusted officers and some ?peons?. Once the treasure was safely hidden away in the cave Pancho Villa killed everyone in the group and returned back to his camp alone. Just how many officers would he have to shoot before the others caught on to what was going on?

Somebody returned the favor in 1923 when Pancho Villa was assassinated, never able to spend that massive fortune of gold.

It is said that this treasure could be in a cave at the headwaters of the Rio Presidio River near the village of Tepuxtla in Mexico.

A second huge treasure associated with PanchoVilla is supposed to consist of 122 silver bars that were liberated from a train by Pancho and his men. The train was attacked near Chavarria and as they were making their escape they were attacked by government troops at San Andres. Pancho and his men supposedly escaped the government troops during the night but not before burying the silver bars and one of their dead comrades. This all happened ?on the road to Bachiniva?. So somewhere around Bachiniva, Mexico lies an unmarked grave with one set of bones and one hundred and twenty-two silver bars.

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