Victorio Peak and afterthought
May 10, 1998 at 09:13:17
There's a newsletter in Hatch, NM, which spends a lot of copy space trying to rebuild the fires of imagination where Victorio Peak is concerned. Evidently Gene Ballinger really believes all the tales and current wisdom.... Gene's a man who also believes the early celts visited inland new mexico and left markers all around here.
I'd like to believe it all myself, though it's difficult. If all that gold was hidden in Victorio Peak it would have had to come from somewhere, and Doc Noss described more gold by a lot than has ever been produced in New Mexico, much less lost.
Sometimes you have to look at the man. Doc Noss lived in Clovis NM during the late '40s and early '50s. I grew up during that time in Portales, 20 miles away. There weren't so many people in that country those days that everyone didn't know everyone else, at least by reputation.
Doc Noss's treasure wasn't discussed much, but his honest was. I hate to disparage a dead man, but his lingering tales are his own.
The fact was, Doc Noss was considered to be a man who, when faced by the choice of telling the truth or telling a lie (completely outside the context of the treasure) he'd always choose a lie.
You can't depend on a liar always lying, and the Victorio Peak treasure might have been there, might have been discovered by him, but it seems a bit flimsy.
Too bad the government is also so bad about lying when they could as easily tell the truth. Everything from flying saucers, kennedy assignations, Oklahoma tragedies, and Victorio Peak would die down if we didn't already know that a statement by our elected and appointed officials is worth about what the treasure of Victorio Peak is today, except for those who have a vested interest in stirring the matter up again.
Unfortunately, some of the people deepest in the flurry to stir the pot and cause Victirio Peak again are themselves pretty questionable, and one has done a fair amount of prison time as a r
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