Too much Personal email
Too much Personal email
I've had a LOT of personal email regarding some of my "To the point" postings. <br>A few of them were concerned that I was debunking the whole Legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine. <br> <br>I'll reply to that concern first: <br> <br>Not at all! I sincerely believe that there is a very rich gold deposit out there in them hills, and that Jacob Waltz knew where it was and hauled a lot of rich gold ore away from it. <br>How he came to find it and who he might have tried to tell where it is may never be known even after it is found. <br> <br>Another major concern expressed is if I might be giving away some "Secrets" by exposing some of the commonly believed "Myths" thereby guiding people into the right direction: <br> <br>Well, nothing I can say could ever guide anyone in the right direction. Mainly because I am still trying to figure out the right direction myself! My own method of searching has been reduced to little more than throwing darts at a map and going out to see if it is there! But I enjoy every trip as much as the first! <br> <br>There are 160,000 acres of wilderness out there, and there is no way I will be able to search all of them in my lifetime! I spent the better part of 13 yrs searching on one mountain alone and I am still not sure I have seen all of it! <br> <br>In my opinion, The clues are so vague and scrambled that "NEARLY" every one of those 160,000 acres of Wilderness Area are open for potentially being the right one. And as I said... I will never be able to search them all in my lifetime. <br> <br>I would like to see the Mine found! I would rather that someone else find it, than Die without knowing how close I got to it! <br> <br>If I can prevent a serious searcher from wasting his resources in areas where a lot of people already know the mine ISN'T, He just might wander into an area where he could stumble across something that might lead him to it. <br> <br>I don't know all the answers, but I know a few! ie: The Weaver's Needle area has been gone over pretty good with no results! <br> <br>At this point, I would like to ask all of you folks to stop writing to my personal email box with your questions so I will not have to keep answering the same ones over and over in seperate emails. Besides... If you post them here you may even get some better answers than I could give you. <br> <br>Also... Please do not send me your Theories. I can usually tell within the first three lines what book you have been using for reference by the clues/landmarks used to develope your Theory. <br> <br>Theories are like Belly Buttons. We all have them and so far they have all been proven to be totally useless. <br> <br>BUT... If you have a theory you believe in. Get out there in the mtns and follow it up. <br>If you don't believe in it enough to do that, I am certainly not going to use my resources to follow it up for you! <br> <br>Maybe Ron will soon know for sure what he has found and take this "Monkey" off of all our backs! <br> <br> <br>Good hunting!