Peralta Mine Found? 

The true gold is the history there. Thank yall for bringing it to us. Im jealous though, due to health reasons I can only see it through your lens. Sure is beautiful country even though its rugged. It just goes to show how tough those old timers were. Thanks again for these vids

I live for y’all a videos! Some much knowledge on history. I just love them all!!!

I found the Peralta mine after watching this video 3 years ago after matching up the cactus behind them. I have videos but just have never posted them. There was a small waterfall running over the cliff in front of the pit area. My first time in Arizona with 2 other friends. We found it on our last day.

Love your series so educational

I've hiked up on the butte and have actually hiked about 3/4 of the way around its upper perimeter. Apparently I didn't travel across the area where the mine is located. I can attest to your comments that it is indeed a very grueling hike. The Catclaw and cacti are ferocious, rattlesnakes are present, and the talus slope is very difficult to get a good footing on. Coming down is just as challenging. Heed Larry and Charlie's warning. Enjoy the video, but don't get overzealous and attempt the climb unless you are very experienced at a sustained 60 degree ascent.

Couple of those areas look pretty snakey. Even with careful checking, you have my admiration for your endurance and bravery.

Charlie,if you go to the top of Hardt tank road and walk north about 300 yards. On the east side is a ledge that overlooks the valley. I sat there and counted no less than 13 hearts one day. That's why I believe that to be the valley of the hearts. Now also up there is a stack of three rocks near the edge which when photographed at the right time of year/ day can be seen the image of an old man sitting down waiting for something. I can show you Don Miguel Peraltas face carved out of a rock outcropping near peacock springs. That can only be seen at dusk in the winter.

Very interesting video. Love the history👍

Lots of history shared. Thks

Great episode. I'd love to visit that site just to say I did it.

i really like these history type stories,,,old mining history is a favorite of mine,

Theres a cool mine up a natural ramp on the mountain about 500 feet up near Don's Camp off of Peralta Road. Its not a vertical mine and you can walk into the mountainside very far back. It has an area in it that curves off to the left that is very sketchy and appears to have a vertical shaft that drops hundreds of feet to the bottom. Very cool mine that Ive visited 5 times.

An unbelievable video of a lost mine loved the video.

Wow cool stuff. I hope yall go back and actually find a way in the hole if your able to do safely. These gold in those hills. Come and get me. Come and get me...

Very appreciative of all your hard work that you do to bring us such great video’s. You can see the scratches, and blood on your shirts. Thank you for taking us along with you, and thanks for the memories. Take care

Love it!

Incredible Arizona History! Great Video!

very interesting stuff

When’s the next video coming! Really liking this series! I have watched every video so far!!

You guys are warriors!

I have hiked that area several times, but have not been to the cave. I love the yellow rock formation that looks like a building with windows. Nice for photographing.

Thanks for the video. The Ldm is Directly above you

Amazing

Amazing. Thank you.

The story is actually the gold. It’s a great story.

very interesting, cannot wait to see more and cannot wait to talk again

Great video.

WOW!

Love this series, next winter, I want to visit the area.

I decided to search for this location, and I consider my self an experienced hiker, he’s not kidding it’s very rough. One of the thickest thicket of spikes I have ever climbed through. I believe I found the mine, but I couldn’t get close enough to the shaft because bees have overtaken the entrance.

Nice Video!

I love this video. Are used to live in Arizona in globe so heard lots of stories about lost Dutchman and Peralta mine. The guys I really wish you didn’t repeat yourself so much about the Spanish Peralta mine and continued on the rest of the story. But thanks for the video

I love this channel

Awesome episode!!!

Charlie I see you're in Hewitt canyon. I know that area quite well. I found the horse in the same vicinity but a little west of there.

Thats cool!

Larry is no spring chicken anymore. He is one tuff guy to adventure that now.

thats exiting. i would love to get my teacher to do something on this

One thing Charlie didn't mention.. If you go,, Don't vandalize or Disrespect the area..

Did My Granddad find The Lost Dutchman Mine? My granddad was a famous Southern California cowboy named Walt Whitlock. He was born in 1885 and died in 1960. In around 1905 to about 1910, He and his cousin, Steve Helm went on a hunting expedition to the Colorado 4 corners area. They jerked all their meat and were on their way to back to San Diego County when they encountered a sand storm. They rode up into the Superstition Mountains, down the Salt River, looking for shelter. Around dark, on a narrow cliff-side trail, south of the river, they found what they thought was a cave. It was barely large enough for them & their horses. When it became light the next morning they realized that this wasn't a cave, but a shallow, horizontal mine shaft, about 20 feet deep and 15, or so, feet wide. by about 6 feet tall. In the back of the tunnel they could see a vein of gold the width of the tunnel & 2 feet thick. They took their hunting knives & dug out some of the gold. Then they drew a crude map of the area with the idea of coming back later to stake a claim. They actually went back several times, but weren't able to locate the mine. They claimed the topography looked totally different. They even rode up the river, & down the same canyon as they had that evening, they even found the correct trail, but it stopped before they got to where they believed the minewas located. In fact the last time they were there, they had to back their horse up about 100 yards just to get back to the main trail, but the mine wasn't to be found. Sometime during the Great Depression my Granddad misplaced his "Dutchman" map. After his death in 1960 I went through his belongings looking for it, but it was just as lost as the Dutchman's mine. About 15 years ago I took a interest in trying to figure out where this mine was really at. So I began searching for it on the Internet, I download every "Dutchman" map I could find, about 60 to be exact. After pouring over all this information, as well as lots of old Dutchman stories, I decided that the Dutchman had probably found an existing Spanish mine, possibly dug by the Peralta party, before they were massacred. I began to compare all of these maps and discovered that all of the ones which were of a good enough quality to be of any use, seemed to have a couple of features in common, that being a triangle looking place at the conjunction of 2 canyons, just south of the Salt River. When the Google satellite view came out, it made this task much easier, so I began to search Google maps for these features, and I believe I've been successful. I've found a place at the end of La Barge Canyon which seems to match the listed topography, as well as my Granddad's "Ghost Trail. It appears to be in a large rock slide, which I believe is the reason Granddad couldn't find it again. It appears the whole face of the cliff slide away in one large slide, completely wiping out the trail for several hundred yards, & covering part of the entrance. The entrance is still viable, but is now just a slot, instead of the 6 foot tall, 15 foot wide rectangular opening my Granddad described, it's now just a 15 foot by about 3 foot high slot, with the bottom of the mine forming the top of the slide. The area in question is just above the top of La Barge Canyon. It appears there is a trail up the top of the ridge, above the mine. I believe this is what Granddad referred to as the "Main Trail". It appears the trail to the mine actually crossed the main trail, but slide has wiped most of it out, for what looks like several hundred yard. The correct area is just about in the middle of this map. www.google.com/maps/@33.5150089,-111.4253742,2403m/data=!3m1!1e3

I need to stop watching your videos. I’m ready to move to AZ! Super interesting stuff.

The fact that you guys spent so much time hiking up there to it and then didn't bother going down inside of it was truly disappointing

Seriously, don't be out in the heat of the day, un prepared/ UN provisioned. especially summer time, in that country. If you run out of water, you may never walk back out !!

I wouldn't mind going down that ladder, just as long I am wearing a safety cable. That's a trip that if anyone takes, they have to be really prepared

Absolutely LOVE all the history of the Supes with your videos!! Ive hiked many parts of it over the years & i can just imagine how tough it was to get to the cache!! 0.0 thank you for sharing your adventures! i look forward to more videos & adventures on your channel! how is bayouse? butte spelled?

Thanks for the look , there's far less cactus on this side of the screen.🥺 ( Not a big fan of being a pin cushion )

I hiked up in about 1 hour 15 minutes in august, in case anyone is wondering how long it takes for younger folk. Only took water and a gun, so traveled light.

I been there metal detecting . Way before you guys filmed this episode. I Found a old pistol .... haha just kidding i found nothing only a rusty nail

Is this the mine my Granddad found? Don't think so. but the map looks like it's in the same area. From what I can see by the maps I have there are several Peralta mines. I have a map that shows the Perealta treasure room as being at the base of Weavers Needle.

I hunted LD for 10 years 20 years ago . Im going back to digs with a metal detector. Im old .but smarter

I bet the peralta family descendents have great stories or legends handed down.

and no one goes down to investigate wtf?!

I wonder if there's any more gold there? Or has it been mined out?

thanks for all the wear and tear fellows! cat claw sure does a nasty job on y'all.. you think packin' a marchetta would help with the bushwhacking?

So all the keys match and their is no gold I believe their was cashes and they were found a long time ago.

So, has anyone tried it?

You should have taken a metal detector and also taken some ore samples. Find out if anything is really there.

Any idea what was being mined?

Did they say this was off of Hewitt Canyon Rd.?

I heard 57 or more years ago the same thing. Stay out of the Superstitions. It was good advice then it's good advice now! Jim BCC AZ

any videos coming up soon?? Missing the series!!

how do you think that's Peralta . that's not hand hued lumber .its rough cut lumber .early to late 1800's ...my guess would be later 1880's ---1890's.......see how some of the rungs are longer then others not cut to size . that's most likely wood taken from other locations and used here ..old house or cabin wood ...i don't believe this ladder is older then the 1860's at best ... its to large of a shaft .. a Spanish mine maybe .but with so many people have made changes and added to it ...great video guys ...

What if there was more than one Dutchman mine...he pulled from...otherwords...the abandoned Peralta mines...he must have knew them all... He cleaned out remaining ore at will...

Baloney the Peralta mines as depected on Ruth map was found by a Gorden Randy if you go to the bee line highighway go into the quarry immeatly turn right from the dirt piles you will see red mountain and kind of a saddle next to it there is a achent. Trail marker ..go down the other side and turn around ..it took my breath away ..others know the location but won't tell because of tirism money the house is a big slabe of redstone lying at maybe a 40 degree tilt and the boys is in it ..the upper tunnel was open some animal filled the floor with choia ..the bottom one had fallen shut ..go see it you won't believe ..look it's been a hundred years and thousands hiking Weaver's needle how long before people wise up ..it ain't there

Where did you find your trailhead? You hiked 4 hours in?

Your second trip and you didn't have a machete???

Charlie I want to go lol!! I'd bring my metal detector! Pls. Let me know if in a year or two you'd like to go up there!!

This is the reason the Dutchman's mine never be found 100 years brush can fill in cover so much landscape look totally different in this type of environment. If someone could bring back the Dutchman to life he probably could not find it again.

Not a Spanish mine in my opinion! All my research & reading says this is not Spanish! Just saying. The Spanish always covered or hide their mines in all my reading. No tale-telling tailings either. But what do I know?

Modern searchers don't realize just how tough those old miners were or how they actually lived. Some never took a bath or if they did it was once a month. Their clothes were just as tough to withstand years of abuse. Also, all their food was packed in, maybe a bit of salt but no seasonings to speak of and what small animals they ate along with deer, antelope, bear, porridge or oats. A rifle or gun maybe, both and ammunition for protection. Thanks for your warning to the inquisitive, glory seekers for their bones will be picked over, scattered destroyed with time before anyone finds them...if ever.

Could've been

WTF? No long sleeves? No wide brim hat? No gloves? No knee pads? No Elbow pads? Guys? I know you are the experts but your Personal Protective Gear Sucks!

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