Those “tubs” are called tinajas. Most are hidden high up In rocks and only animals and native Americans know where they are. Many a man has died of thirst within 100 feet of a tinaja and never found it.
"It fascinates me how square some of these sides are, 90 degree cuts..." Virtually all rock at the surface of the Earth is jointed. They form from the rock relaxing after the removal of confining pressure, the weight of overlying rock. Also contributing are freeze-thaw cycles, which alternately expand and contract the rock. Joints will often form at about 90 degrees in all three axes, and share a similar orientation over a large region, aka regional joints.
The pool with the big boulder has a carving in the rock face. Like someone was sitting on the boulder picking at the rock. It has 4 hash marks in it. i have a picture of it i took a few weeks ago
I found some tubs and a mine but it is up near the summit of Four Peaks to the North side of the dirt road and a small creek, off of the dirt road called Old Soldiers road that goes from the I 87 to Roosevelt Lake up the mountain . Probably another 10-15 miles is the top parking lot near the western peak of Four Peaks.
Let's see your samples of gold ore there. Also you said Dutchman may have booby trapped his mine but why would he do that when he tried to help his friends fine it while he was dying
