Lost Dutchman Goldmine

Peter, you seem to be confusing the Bush and Hunt Highways.

AFAIK the present Bush Highway has been in the same location for at least the last 40 years.

Could it be that Usery Pass Road is/was referred to by some as the Old Bush Highway????

Azmula since you asked for some feedback about how you can improve your writings, and now that I know you are doing a book, here are some of my suggestions. Explain the maps in much more detail, certainly at least the horse map. I can understand how you would want to keep some details to yourself. H...

ESTA BEREDA ES PELIGROZA This trail is dangerous YO BOY 18 LUGARES I go 18 places BUSCA EL MAPA Search the map BUSCA EL COAZON Search the heart In the prior map the misspelling of caballo was significant. What about the misspellings in the above? Namely, an online Spanish to English translator doesn...

I for one have found your posts to be very interesting. I especially enjoyed the history. I cannot say that I have ever read a better organized, logical history of why there could be buried treasure out there somewhere. I guess the realtive silence to date can be attributed to a bunch of factors. Fi...

I stumbled across this webpost today - http://canada.com/national/story.asp?id ... D71A5D7440

Isn't that one of the Stone Maps in the article? If so it kind of makes you wonder how they used it to find treasure in Oklahoma and/or Arkansas.

To recap, this has gone from "getting close", to 6kgs of nuggets and now truckloads. The source was in the Sups, then near the Vulture mine, now it is on the Gila Reservation. I can hardly wait until the ore is coming out by the trainloads from New Mexico. I would like to go down to the st...

I have never seen hikers from the Apache Trail as the ones I am familiar with are smart enough to go to the trailheads. I have been on many night hikes and indeed have hiking friends who mainly hike at night in the summer due to the cooler temperatures. Also, if you are looking for locked government...

Call me skeptical but something doesn't ring true about your posts. You start with a "getting close" comment. You then include a "highest possibility" (not a you found something post) description as to the location(s). You also put forward the proposition that the stone maps are ...

Steve, for your pictures try this link - http://home1.gte.net/ltdan/stones.htm

[quote="Joe Ribaudo"]Wiz, I notice you got no responce to the Four Peaks question. I have heard that clue talked about more then once. I could be wrong on this, but I believe the four peaks in question are: Peters Mt., Browns Peak, Buckhorn Mt. and Sweethart Peak. Joe[/quote] There is yet ...

Joe, you make an interesting point about Ken's motives. I should note however that my family had no extra money to invest in a speculative mining/treasure hunt. Thus, Ken would have been wasting his time if that was his goal. In fact, as far as I know Ken never asked anyone for money or shared his i...

I recently talked briefly with my father about this subject. Here is a summary of his added information. He corrected me and stated that there were FOUR saguaros planted in a row. The fellow that shared this legend with him was Ken Brown. In the base of one of the four saguaros was a stone with a co...

Of course the obvious answer is Superstition Mountain. At least I have heard that one quite a bit. Then again I don't think there is really a single mountain you can point to and say that is Superstition Mountain. Instead I think it is more of a RANGE along the western front of the wilderness called...

FWIW, my $.02 is that that Flatiron ONLY refers to the wedge shaped area that looks like an old cast iron clothes iron. http://www.goldcanyonwebsite.com/SM%20- ... ron-10.jpg

[quote="Joe Ribaudo"]S.C., Walker 12 seems to think they may be found everywhere. [/quote] That is far from the truth. I personally have only seen one place where that is the case. I was simply posting what another fellow claimed to get feedback from the brain trust. It seems this is not a...

S.C. you must have the proverbial brown thumb. People move wild cactus ALL the time both legally and illegally. Through the years; I myself have moved dozens of wild hedgehogs, cholla, prickly pear, etc., around in my yards as well as proprogated from cuttings with a very high success rate (90% or m...

Scott what do you mean by markers? The reason that I ask is my "information", if you could call it that, came many years ago listening to some guy talking to my father. This fellow had a whole story about how he had found and followed 3 (not 5 like others noted, but maybe I am mis-remember...

I have a vague recollection that some group (Spanish?, Mexicans?) planted a series of 3 saguaros in a row as clues leading to a treasure or mine. Does this have any bearing on the LDM, any other treasure/mine in the southwest or is this just another one of these rumor based tales?

Sorry to see you go Joe. I too will miss your posts. Best of luck with your ravine.

[quote="Aurum"] Waltz was surely no scholar of the metric system but by the same token he wouldn't have known the "American mile" from a Monday night footbal game.[/quote] I thought the Arizona Territory came into the Union using the 1sq mile range and township system. Wouldn't a...

Joe you bring up a very good point with this post - "Lets suppose that S.C., LDM, or I were at the Waltz deathbed, and he gives us the correct directions to the mine. Do you think any of us would have failed to find it. Now consider the same information in the mind of Julia Thomas. " Some ...

I am not sure where you are going with this question. Clearly people have made money in mining. Some fall into it backwards by picking up a gold laden rock to throw at a mule. Other knowledgeable people search for years and years and for a variety of reasons they never hit it rich. Personally I am n...

Could be as simple as he wanted to get away from some lightening. I know I have been hiking several times and wished I could crawl under something untill the lightening passed.

Does anybody know where the Magill group camped? I was wondering if they made the hike up everyday. Or, maybe they camped right next to their dig. I guess it is also possible they camped a 1/2 mile or so away on the mountain top in a flater and wetter spot.

"Another item to be found is the trail up the east side of Bluff Springs Magill was to have taken to get to the top. Many have tried to find that and it appears to be a mystery. It could be "washed out" now. Or simply never existed. I bet Magill used what we call the Ely-Anderson Trai...