Lost Dutchman Goldmine

The time I spent at the rendezvous was great and I was treated well by everyone. I got to see the faces of some of those who post on this site, names I tend to forget just about as soon as I hear them which has always been a problem for me. I got to see reproductions of the stone maps which only lef...

Great pictures of arrastras. In a lot of years roaming in the mountains and desert I have never found an old arrastras, some of you seem to have lady luck's favor more than me. From the vegetation there is a large difference in the elevations of the arrastras. From what I have read arrastras were ge...

I hesitate to add my name to those who will attend because I said I would last year but did not make it. I would like to see everone in person and to check which ones of you have cloven hoofs a pointed tail and horns. Seroiusly, I would like to hear the opinions and ideas of the bunch. I may only ge...

AMEN The people of Arizona have the right of recall for any elected office holder so why do we put up with the existing situation? I have to believe that the Joe Blows of this state love their party more than their country. In this up-coming election why do we not have a taxpayer revolt and only vot...

Wwhat I have believed for years is that the stone maps were found in the fifties and were not found on Forest Service land but on State land with the possibility of being on private property. In the early sixties an article published in the Frontier Times (I believe) showing that the priest map as p...

Mr Buscar what you have said is part of what has bothered me about minning in the Superstitions. If the ore was as rich as claimed it would most likely be hand graded and only the cream would be skimmed off for casting into bars, plates, fingers or what you wished. This would not require that much w...

I think that what I am objecting to the most is the term "pot hunter" as much of the knowledge of ancient Arizona has come from pot hunters. I have taken park rangers and showed them sites that they should check but to my knowledge nothing was done. I know of more sites but I am not sure t...

In the forties and fifties pot hunting was done as a recrectional pursuit, were we wrong? Willams Army Airforce Base is built over a huge farming area that went from the Superstitions to the Gila River with many villages. There was an irrigation pond on Snokie that had a canal that only the top of m...

Mr. Ribaudo and/or other members I am not claiming to have a great knowledge of BLM rules but I do have a passing understanding of the ones that apply to my partner's and my claim. Several years ago the BLM rep. that we had worked with for a length of time retired and was replaced by one that we did...

My partner and I have a claim near Wickenburg and we pay a yearly maintenance fee of $125.00. We do not have to do assement work and only have to follow BLM rules, sometime not logical nor consistant, to keep the claim. Having never been in the position of having anyone file over us I believe that s...

Back to name calling? There has been a lot of info in the posts lately and I have enjoyed this as my main interest is in the history of the area. Due to my age and condition I do not think that I would find one of the lost mines (unless it was in a few hundred feet of a roadway) so I am not a seeker...

Having no dogs in this fight (no theories as to what happened to Mr. Ruth) but as an older person with an artificial hip for some 30 some years I do have some observations. Knun posted portions of Mr. Ruth's letter and to me it was very clear as to its meaning. After riding a mount for 6 miles in my...

In 4-28-06 Bill711 posted a note about treasure hunters finding gold bars. He thought this was in Texas but the articles that I read were about a group of older men who had found gold bars near Tucson. They found a number of bars and same empty holes were you could guess that bars had been removed. ...

In the posts leading up to last years LDM get together there were mentions of a "scraping" near the Buttes Dam location. Is there a picture or a drawing of the scraping that could be posted on the LDM site?

Thanks Jim Hamrick

Mr. Buck That is a question I would like to have answered myself. I thought a date had been set but I can't find the post that detailed this if there was one. All of the back and forths over this meeting has left me with a suspicion that this is a contrived leg pulling agenda so I don't know whether...

Today I took a tour of the Apache Junction area via Google Earth and was amazed at the encroachment of civilization as I think of it as it was in the mid forties and fifities. The time is near when all that was so fine is lost for ever. There are two old sayings that contradict each other, "gol...

I would like to attend this years "Dutch Hunters Rendezvious" if only for a few hours. I was unable to make last years meet because I was recovering from a left leg rebuild. As I feel uncomfortable partaking in food or drink unless I have contributed, so a reasonable charge would be fine w...

If you wish to see some strange things (over) in the Superstitions look at the albums that were available a week ago(I can't find the way to pull up past albums) and see if you can spot the anomalous "things" in the pictures. "Watch the skys". This comment has nothing to do with ...

It is near impossible to prove a legend unless you find papers in the mine that were written by Jacob. Thank about this, I have seen figures reputed to be production quantities from mines in Goldfield but where are any production amounts for the other "mines" in the Superstitions. Even in ...

Welcome to you, armchairhuntress, from the ones of us who do our exploring via the computer. I believe that you are asking some of the right questions. The Superstitions start about 2 miles from McDowel Mt. If you go by maps that I have seen. The whole range south of the river was to Picket Post was...

Mr. Ribaudo you are again right in interpreting my clumsy writting. I did not mean to say or imply that where my daughter works hires illegals it is that the influx of illegals in that area of Oklahoma has depressed wages. Please note that I did not say they worked for less than the minimum wage. Wi...

Mr. Brannan. I must backup Mr. Riboudo's post on 5-18. I see nowhere that states that you are not an American. What I believe Mr. Riboudo was saying is that you seem to be a globalist and think that there should be no boundaries. Your linage is impressive and I mean that in a positive way. I have th...

Bill 711 I am not sure that I completly agree with with what you are saying but we should take care of this nation before any other. I believe that one should take care of his family first, his neigbor second then his nation before we take on supporting the rest of the world. I do not want to take y...

I said that I would not post any more political comments but I an going back on my word. This in response to Don's post of 5-5-06. Don I am a registered democrat and have been since the days of L.B.J. My assessment of the current adminstration is that it is further to the left than Kennedy's. To say...

Bill I agree with much of what you say. We have, in my opinion, lost the country you and I was born and have allowed an alien goverment (read as a shadow goverment) to take over. What country are leaving to our grandkids? I puzzle in my mind as to the reason that this should be. The children of our ...