Everyday I am left to wonder just how much Gold and treasure is still untouched in the states of New Mexico and Arizona. You reconize how many stories consist of gold and valubles to the Lure but how much is truely out there still stays on my mind because of the Lure of the adventure to find it. Stories of gold hidden in caves or valubles buried beneath the ground due to men tortureing men over finding it to claim it. My weeryness catches up with me due to knowing that treasure lies within the mountains of people not knowing it's there. Such gold story I seek is the area of Rio Rico Arizona. There are 7 treasure legends within this gold laden area of wealth that few people know about. Your going to find something if you keep your curiosity in this area because of the gold thats in the mountains and buried somewhere in the ground.
Actually, there is a couple of us old timers that did find it. We grabbed what gold we coild in a day and exited the canyon. We each had about 16 lbs. Of nuggets. Heap big pay day. Never went back, never had too.
Good summary of one of the main accounts. There's a lot more to the search that Adams and others engaged in later after the danger subsided. Quite a few put their stock in this area where Ron spent many, many years: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rw8vH65nxrA.html The Books "Black Range Tales" and "Yaqui Gold and Apache Silver" have a lot of this, and were both written by people of the same time, or close to it.
@@matthewmaxcy1574 DON'T GO!!! That scam is as old as the gold rush. The scammer convinces you he knows where it is and talks you into going out there with him. Once you get out into the middle of nowhere, you wind up dead and all your stuff winds up stolen. If he really knew where it was, why would he show its location to someone he's never met before?
The word “Malpais” has to do with a lava bed and here the rock is red that starts on in the flats and then stares up at a Mesa in a box canyon that has an incline up and zig zags due to water runoff. Becomes slot canyon also at times to enter such a box canyon. - that’s the geology of its location.
It's how it was, Gold used to be found above ground, all gone now. Now you gotta dig for it since the hills have been scoured for the easy pickins. Indigenous people seemed to have boundaries but didn't view the lands as personal property per-se. And Gold obviously viewed quite differently that westerners, risking their lives in the early days and often paying the price.
Oh contraire, we go to this almost exact area 4 times a Year! I take my ruk sack, no detector, no shovel. I fill w/ nuggets laying In the canyons on surface! No digging. I have a 4 mile long underground river and i going swimming this week. We are doing Lidar plotting the whole canyon this weekend.
Also in such a place the Malpais, actually would have cinder cones that form in such geological areas. Malpais = Lava formation. While Cinder Cones form in Such lava places. That’s how this case goes about where they were precisely in New Mexico
The Lost Adam Digging has already been found, I saw a documentary that show the actually flag stone where the cabin sit in the bottom of the Canyon. It was actually just where the cabin sit.
Ok, cool. Then tell us where it is? I have seen a couple people claim to have found it and none claim it is in the same place. One guy is selling tours to the supposed location (for hundreds of $), but he shows none of the gold he claims to have found on the site. Not sure I'm convinced yet.
There's a lost placer deposit in the Oregon desert called the "Blue Bucket diggings.." On the maps in that vicinity, there's a canyon called "Blue Bucket Canyon." That isn't the location of the diggings. Just because the name appears on a map doesn't mean that's the actual location.
1973 I was in Prescott VA a couple weeks with Delbert Light. Exxon station Winslow. He was an Exxon explorer... He found the hearth. It was in New Mexico. Indian showed him. Said there was a pencil eraser size nugget in the hearth still to this day unless someone got grabby... He explained a lot of found treasure. Lady from new Jersey drinking at the wagon wheel Chino valley in the 80s said she had info on the wickenburg stage Robbery... She came in with gold rounds and we never saw her again..
The book I have, Lost Mines and Treasures of Arizona, by W.C. Jameson claims it has been found and that a modern mine exists there. Although I must admit that book has dubious claims that don't add up.
Would 300lbs of gold be about the size of a beach ball? From the warm springs apache village, opposite the chiefs caves is a seasonal creek bed descending to a flat area matching this descrip, at the bottom of that is what looks like a big anthill inside which is a round pool of water plugged by an immersed gold sphere appearing to be about this size. From there on the valley is filled with dirt until terminating at a solid rock vertical wall on the river, and the only approach & descent to the river from the plain to the south is across a great hill of coarse red stones. How much would that much gold be worth today?
I believe I have heard of it. I may have to look up more details on it. I need to put together a couple new lost treausre stories! Thanks for the suggestion
It would be interesting and fun to try to follow the clues and directions from horseback like its still the 1800s. I wonder if anyone has gone about it that way or just looked at maps and tried to approximately predict where they think it should be. Someone else posted that a man already found it and they posted who he is. But it seems he is just trying to sell tours into the supposed canyon and doesn't even show and found gold (just claims he found gold).
