Looking for Lost Dutchman Info

[Lasivian]

I'm trying to find someone with alot of background knowledge on this one to test a theory, thanks.

[Hoser John]

The dutchmans scam was debunked many years ago by modern technology.He was a notorious thief who stole his boss blind as the mine manager.He hid out his ill gotten gains for years.He got caught with his hand in the pie and was unceremoniously fired. He mysteriously started bring "HIS" new found wealth into town from "HIS" mine and hence a legend grew. Thanx to spectrographic analysis it has been proven that the dutchmans ill gotten gains were indeed thievery from his employer.A good analyist can compare ores from hundreds of mines and tell you exactly which came from which mine.Now a growth industry to sell books,maps,and scam folks to invest in looking for the non-existant stash as he drank all that up!!!Tons a au 2 u all-John :shock: :shock:

[Fred]

Or you could try LDMA. The fun is in the hunting and history,no matter where it takes you! Fred

[Lasivian]

Well Hoser John I have to agree with you on the analysis, the superstitions are a terrible place to try and find gold.

However I heard awhile back that someone had made some interesting discoveries about the whole thing by taking a different point of view.

What they did was they took the line in the Dutchman's story of "You can see the needle" which everyone has applied to Weaver's Needle:


and applied it to Picacho Peak Instead:


This site mentions how the 2 have have been confused in the past:
http://www.ajpl.org/superstition/1eedle.htm

After I heard the initial blurb about this it faded into obscurity.

Here are Topo maps of both peaks if anyone wants to look into it. (I won't post them as images here since they're both 5 megs each and will take awhile to load)
http://ice.prohosting.com/icons/images/needletopo.bmp
http://ice.prohosting.com/icons/images/picachotopo.bmp

Anyway, it's just one of those odd bits of curiousity. I doubt i'll ever go to either site even tho I only live 40 miles away.

[Frenchman]

I think the most accurate information on the subject is a book by Helen Corbin, The Bible on the Lost Dutchman Goldmine. Should you decide on venturing out into the hills in search of it, be very carefull about being on other peoples claims, and, the many other dangers that exist Best wishes,Frenchman

[Anonymous]

i have been in the superstitions many times and know alot about the mine....if you have any questions email me...azdave35@hotmail.com

[david]

A little reading

http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/aug/stories/lost1.html

http://www.superstitionmountainmuseum.org/

http://www.lost-dutchman.com/dutchman/dutch.shtml

[Hardpan]

The best recent books on the Lost Dutchman were written By Bob and Helen Corbin. Bob is the former Attorney General of Arizona. Nuff said, Hardpan

[Donna 2]

Read the book "The Shadow of the Sentinel" by Bob Brewer and Warren Gettler and it should answer a lot of questions about the Lost Dutchman.
Regards Donna

[Buck]

I did read the book and I did not think that it had much info on the lost dutchman mine the best one written was by Bob and Helen Cobin they live in az

[boomer]

go to this site, it has good info on this subject. boomer

Quest for Peralta Gold - A Hidden History of Red Mountain - The Sombrero Mines of Jacob Waltz Lore Located in 1988
... Stone Tablets (left) and the Peralta-Ruth Map (right). (Tablet photos provided by Dan Wylde. Peralta-Ruth Map: Superstition Mountain ...
www.sombreromines.com/qfg/Tablets2.htm

[Donna 2]

Re-read the section on Arizona in Bob Brewer's book. If there isn't enough info in there to squelch the lost dutchman mine theory, there never will be. Bob proved to my satisfaction that the dutchman mine was a cover for a huge KGC cache. Regards Donna

[boomer]

i knew that someone would bring the KGC into this. but the group didnot come into being until the civil war. its wild, every treasure story has to deal with the KGC. if you haven't walked the walk no one can say that they know. the ones on the forum that are working on this have walked the walk. a book is just a book and if anyone belives a book has all the answers than they need a new line of work. sorry, its just that some people belive that the KGC did it all. but they do own a piece of the rock and burger king.