Lost Dutchman Goldmine

well said aurium but i think maybe you have gone somewhat overboard in your comments.i dont think there any "squabbles" or ridicule for that matter.surely an injection of humour isnt a bad thing on any forum i dont think any personal attack on tracey was intended and if tracey suspects tha...

yes jose there was inddeed a band involved in this episode-well not exactly a band but by all accounts the royal philharmonic orchestra which has a recording studio at the foot of weavers needle. and the cougar involved in the story was of course not a cougar at all but a member of the bluff springs...

and the band played waltzing matilda?

hi just a few casual observations. ive followed the legend for over 35 years from a distance.i t began with a moth eaten copy of thunder golds gold followed almost immediately by elys work and a multitude of books newsclippings articles thereafter thro the years.little by little -bit by bit my confi...

ok thanks mr davis for your reply.
don

thanks s c while im not trying to labour the point,but being a cynic as i am as regards most things im just wondering if this jacob waltz is THE jacob waltz of popular legend as opposed to A jacob waltz and whether that has been definitely ascertained or not.bearing in mind that there are still peop...

hello mr davis ive been advised to contact you as the best chance of obtaining an answer to a question i have . so here goes. was there ever any court case involving leroy purnell and jack keenan regardin disputed ownership of a map relating to mine in superstitions in the 1940s as stated by barry s...

hi. i think i first read the reference to waltz sending money order/bank draft w/e to said sister or sister in law in glovers book.maybe its been mentioned in previous works somewhere but if so i havent seen it. theres been a couple of references on here also.so does anyone know the situation?is it ...

The term mile comes from the Latin mille for one thousand paces. It was the distance of 1,000 steps taken by a soldier. After the fall of Rome the term stayed in use, but gradually lost its meaning of 1,000 steps (or about 5,000 feet). Excellent post, Rosebud. But I'm having trouble with the above:...

hi i was just interested in what the members opinions would be as regarding realistic and i stress realistic expectations would be if placed magically at the entrance to the "the dutchman". taking into consideration the exaggerations that inevitably attach themselves to any legend through ...

just a thought-bearing in mind that most of the books published are pure essence of b.s none the less for that i assume magill found something there were too many people around whpo agreed he found "something". now if we assume fer the sake of the argument that this "something" w...

hi again.ive read wthe replies with interest. i am merely following this legend from the other side of the atlantic and have never visited the superstitions let alone actively searched in the mountains.whereas all of you have and are obviously better qualified to comment etc.i just wondered why it s...

hi the so called hidden trail that winds its way up bluff springs mountain as described by sims ely and supposedly constructed by the peraltas to transport their gold. how much significance is there to that claim? was it a carefully constructed trail? or merely a trail? i assume that at least the tr...

i second that emotion wiz-in fact while the content was somewhat different from first book i think it was a case of same s--- but different cover. but im surprised that corbin has supposedly recieved journalistic awards from the italian version of west point lol. they must give these awards away fre...

thanks ldm ill follow your advice and see what transpires.it could be interesting

ok wiz joe that was fair comment- no problem. but i wasnt suggesting any of you were idiots,my las post was just a parody. by the way -and this goin on a different tack- but some time previously in the archived postings i noticed a contributor mention barry storms comment that keenan and purnell wer...

ok no disrespect peter who knows your views may be right(i doubt it but they might)

let me see now er the ark in an historical context hmmmm well i think in a roundabout kind of way i mean sort of -in a manner of speaking-you know what peter? i dont care wether it exists or not - whether it be nestled on the top of mount ararat-deep in king davids sepulchre- or deep in the heart of...

gee- what did i say? gulp! just a few comments on last few posts - i didnt expect to get so much reaction but im here so ill rely lol as regarding throwing out certain works by certain writers i.e storm -corbin- glover and to a lesser extent ely-that might not be such a bad thing. the ark and the ho...

well sc is there a holy grail?funnily enough the holy grail could be compared with the lost dutchman in a kinda way. because the holy grail is many different things to many different people-so i guess yeah there is to some people dependin on what they visualize the holy grail as being.the holy grail...

ok peter i admit ive done no "digging" lol but im not dismissing two soldiers story but just really find it "odd" that people believe it wholrheartedly and with out any reservations when theres so little evidence to support it. ok you can quote me the various "testimonies&qu...

Wiz wrote:

don wrote:(as if anybody who found the mine would advertise detailed directions to it anyway)

They didn'

t. That's the whole problem!

they didnt? hmmmmm the waterfall ? trick in the trail?(trick in the trail my ass lol) maybe they told this to ely etc thro a medium? ok im kidding (i think)

hey im sorry if i sound churlish but gee to me it seems theres an awful lot of conjecture and supposition there. i meam listening or reading the legends of dearing /soldiers etc is fine but then going on to treat the whole story/stories as fact' including the directions the soldiers and dearing gave...

thanks for your reply. pretty impressive stuff at first glance. but mostly these are accounts from 20 yrs after the event and more.and again you would have thought that somebody would have recalled the year when this happened. that in itself would suggest to me that the sources quoted are merely rep...

is there any evidence the two soldiers ever existed?apart from the statements of mason that is. i find it curious that while theyre trail directions are remembered - the amount of gold they supposedly recovered is remembered- even what they were wearing is rembered. but minor points such as their na...