That said, I have to respectfully disagree with Brewer’s allegation that all lost mine stories are KGC in origin, fabricated in order to establish some sort of geographic matrix for KGC hidden wealth. This idea, while intriguing and plausible to some degree, just doesn’t make sense to me as stated. The question I always come to is: why? If it’s all a secret Southern conspiracy, engineered and organized by brilliant minds with links to the world’s most powerful people, then why not keep it all within the “family”? Why go to the trouble of making up all these bogus lost mine stories for the local rubes to go looking for? Doesn’t this draw attention to the stash areas? Seems to me you’d want to keep these areas unknown, not known. What’s the point here? Again…why?

Same goes for Spanish mines/caches. Many people believe in the existence of Spanish mines/caches – in fact, there’s a pretty good probability that several of these alleged sites have been located and recovered over the years (IMO). I’ve got some information myself that’s pretty compelling. If the KGC (Jesse James, et al.) had such an extensive network of caches throughout the southwest, why not be mum on the subject? Why draw attention to these areas by attaching a “Spanish mine” tag to them? If my buddies and me had a series of secret money/gold stashes, the last thing we’d do is send people out looking for them. What’s the point? This just doesn’t make any sense to me. Am I missing something? If so, I’d like to be set straight.