You're right deducer - I haven't posted enough to remember that there is a function called ignore that works well - sometimes I'm just having a bad day and see a couple posts that just annoy the heck out of me. Sorry bout that.
Who's this Reed's guy, where are the pic's if any.
Thanks Sir. Babymick1
- quote from Thomas Glover's book "Treasure Tales of the Superstitions."The mine itself was a shaft about 30 to 40 feet deep and about 6 feet across. This last visit they found the mine covered over, and dug it out to get at the gold. Interestingly the gold ore was called placer ore as they would take chunks of it and soak it over night. The next day they could fairly easily break it apart and pick out the gold.
Babymick1 - there are lots of references to John Reed and his and his father's possible knowledge of Waltz's mine floating around on this forum and others. It's too long a story for me to post so if you're interested you'll have to do some digging, but on his supposed last trip to the mine site when he was 12 years old (somewhere in the time frame of 1884) this is the description he gave...
- quote from Thomas Glover's book "Treasure Tales of the Superstitions."
John Reed himself eventually got into contact with the Ely's as well as Bark and Erwin Ruth - and eventually even came out and attempted (maybe) to find the mine site with Clay Worst. Some people claim Reed didn't know anything but was trying to horn in on finding the mine - other suspect he knew more than he was letting on - or even misleading people and used Clay to try to search the mountains so he could go back at a later time on his own and dig out the gold, etc... Nobody really knows.
Anyways - I just thought your picture looked like ore that I would imagine fits the description Reed gave.
I see a cigar case in Franks future with that ore...