I only tell the stories as twas told to me, but as to their truth, I know not what they may be.
The story that follows, tells of a cache of seven gold bars recovered at “second water spring,” following clues given in the old Peralta Maps. The story coincides with the late Jonathan Burbridge, a professional dower and treasure hunter, said to have found seven bars of gold in the Superstition Mountains. He died in 1973.
Another talked-about lost treasure is associated with a prep named, Bob Brady. Like Harry France, he too, claimed to have discovered a treasure cave in the rugged Superstition Mountains. The story goes that the cave concealed stacks of gold bars, a gold sunburst, a gold statue of a priest, leather bags containing gold ore and, of all things, a bed made from wood and leather. The cave is thought to have been near Al Morrow’s camp in Needle Canyon.
In the article “Superstition Mountains” by Jim Taylor, he said that his dad, knew a man who had found a cache of Spanish bullion in the Superstitions. He allowed Dad to cut the end off of one of the bars he had found. The bars were made up of a small percentage of gold and silver with a higher percentage of lead and tin. The bars you (buscar) describe (Bob Brady and Harry France found) sound like what Dad described, but again, all I have are accounts from Dad back when his mind was still sharp.
Another mystery in our midst of rainy-day gold seems to have vanished. The baffling strange account happed in 1937, when a 41-year-old disable veteran named, Charles Williams stumbled onto a wealth in (dental) gold hidden in a cave, while seeking shelter from the rain. He too, could not relocate his rainy-day find.
This is another intriguing tale that sounds too good to be true - yet it is familiar with other stories of found and lost treasure in the Superstition Mountains. This extract from a book written by Bob Ward “True Stories of the Superstition Mountains” tells about a man named Ray Diamond, who had arrived from Australia, and was caught in a severe thunderstorm in the Superstition Mountains. He too, claimed to have found gold bars in a cave, and was unable to find it again.
Do you have a story of treasure found in the Superstition Mountains?
buscar
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