Lost Dutchman Goldmine

Waltz’s cave and mine described by Julia Thomas “In a gulch in the Superstition Mountains, the location of which is described by certain landmarks, there is a two-room house in the mouth of a cave on the side of the slope near the gulch. Just across the gulch, about 200, yards opposite this house in...

“Them there is the cave Waltz used to claim he stayed while back there that would be on Malapais Mountain, facing La Barge. He claimed he could see Weavers Needle and Miners Needle from his cave and water his mule by the old water hole that would be the permanent pot hole down below in Peters Canyon...

“Petrarch claimed he only went (Waltz) back there 2 or 3 times being afraid to get caught by the Apaches, and I don’t think he ever seriously looked for the mine since he had all that loose gold, but he probably figured it was some where around there. Dick Holmes told Tex Barkeley he left 6-7 bags b...

From Gassler’s notes “She also told me of the evening before Ruth’s disappearance, she said it was a drizzly day that evening when Ruth came in to the ranch wearing a trenchcoat, (Tex was in Phoenix shipping cattle) and told her to tell her husband not to worry or hurry about him as he had found 2 g...

I have known the location of Gassler’s camp for many years, and have been there a number of times.

buscar

From Walter Gassler’s 1983 manuscript, “The Lost Peralta-Dutchman Mine” Tex told me that he actually tracked Ruth to the grove and found him there dead. He claimed that he and one of his cow-hands (whose name I will not mention here he probably passed on too by now) wrapped the body in a tarp and bu...

“When I told Epifanio I was going to quit looking for the mine and leave it, he said don’t go, keep looking up there, you will find it. Did he know? Tex told me he knew where it was, he used to be a muleskinner for the Silver King, but he said he would never tell, he had that Indian believe it was b...

"Then there came a time in the 40’s when I told Tex I just could not afford to keep this up any longer. By this time, I had married, had two small children, and worked for a while till I got ahead a little, then take off and go back into the mountains. I had lost my car, was behind usually on r...

Another difficult question: Who or what gave the impersonator the idea, that Kollenborn had Walter Gassler’s notes?

buscar

A Strange Twist of Events Note: This information comes from a couple of sources. Due to Copyright material by the writers, the exact wording has been changed except for a brief quote at the end of this article. Remember , I am only the messenger, so please do not kill the courier. One strange event ...

On page 4-B, Apache Sentinel Wednesday, January 23, 1980, is a short description that tells about numerous items said to have been found at the bottom of a 25-foot mine shaft in the Goldfield Mountains in 1971, northwest of Chiquita Sombrero. The items belonging to Das Luca, a Frenchman included wer...

Joe is correct in saying: "If you edit your post prior to receiving a reply, the edit will not be recorded. " When I edited my post above, and resubmitted it before there was a reply, it showed no edit. When I edited my post after Joe posted a reply, it showed that my post was edited. Befo...

I do not recall Jesse Feldman saying, they cannot change things.

What he did say:

“In the LDM Discussions no one has the authority to delete posts except the one that wrote the post.”

In the LDM Discussions all members have the authority to Edit/Delete their own post .

Buscar

The word bogus is first recorded in American usage in the 1820s, referring to a machine for producing counterfeit money; its modern uses seem to have developed from there. Its ultimate origins remain unclear, but one suggestion is that it comes from tantrabogus, a word reportedly in use in New Engla...

Old Jake’s Gold by buscar This clever and humorous poem is sure to delight around the flickering campfire and all through the night The campfire crackles with each story told of the far fetched tale of the Dutchman’s gold It’s all up-to-date a comprehensive guide so grab your mule and let us ride Wa...

IF If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can get going without pep pills, If you can start the day without The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine Prospecting Forum, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you ca...

Sounds great! But we’ll have to wait until December 21st at 4 o’clock in the afternoon so that we both can find the same shadow (spot) under Weavers Needle. Do you like sandwiches with limburger cheese?

buscar

A high school teacher living next door previously mentioned, that the earth revolves around the sun once every twenty-four hours, and a shadow (from a peak) falling on a certain spot one day, would change the following 24 hours, and fall somewhere else. He stated, that a 4 o’clock shadow to fall ( m...

The words “El Sombrero” appear to be a code intended to draw attention to the peak in that it resembles the crown of (El Sombrero) the wide-brimmed hat. Therefore, the coded message is a sign with specific meaning perhaps the headdress (crown) symbolizing royalty . And so, the person or persons conn...

El Sombrero Please do not tar and feather me. I wish only to start a thread, where we all can work together in helping explain four of the maps that are reproductions made by Tom Kollenborn. Here is my rendition to the unexplained. “El” meaning “the“ and “Sombrero” meaning “wide-brimmed hat.” In eac...

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The LDM Team: a game of luck that goes hand-in-hand following the Code of Conduct To whatever degree, it doesn’t seem likely that many of the discussions on this forum offer any chance (rediscovering the LDM) based solely on distribution of events or outcomes. Where there is no team effort to achiev...

Posted by late49er Sat Feb 12, 2005 4:02 pm Post subject: Sims Ely and the Lost Dutchman Mine Recently I was in Downieville, California and came across a hardback book by a gentlemen named Sims Ely. The book and a number of letters from the Pheonix area were being sold at a yard sale by an elderly l...

Randy, Go to the top of the page and click HOME then click Member Archive . Under buscar, you will see a clue to one of the rich gold mines in the Superstition Mountains; three boulders each shaped like a teepee or sombrero laid out in a semicircle. According to Walter Gassler, Tex Barkley tried to ...

Teddy had it so right! Not Kennedy, but Roosevelt! Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907. "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact ...