Ben Sublett and Guadalupe Peak thread

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[LUE-Hawn]

I have read the link posted, which says the wagon train was headed west from fort worth to el paso, when i find it i will post a newspaper article i have from monahans in which a judge found the wagon train and a bunch of houshold goods,mineing tools made in san francisco ca, and the bolt of blue clothe and also some wooley mamoth bones which he plastered back together, he displayed this stuff along with territorial photographs, newspaper articles, and indian artifacts in a museum of sorts in the town of monahans run by him and his wife, after he died nobody took care of the museum and the stuff was distributed to austin, and a museum in alpine texas, and some going to the headquarters at the sand hills state park where they are on display, the park rangers are weary of people talking about the lost wagon train, if you go by the judges landmarks it should lie just north of monahans about 4 miles and right on or just outside the park boundries, if the other article which is posted here is correct it should be on the east side of the sand hills, i dont beleive an ordinary wagon train could make it throgh those hills, do a little hikeing there and you will know what i am talking about. elmer kelton the great western novelist was raised on the east side of the sandhils and his father stumbled across the old wagon train, as did many people over the years, he said as did others that the wagons although scorched were still intact he also found bones of what he said was a large prehistoric bird. any way best i remember researchers think they figured out which wagon train this was and it left yuma sometime in the 1860's carrying people back east who had struck it rich in the california goldfields, some say 9,000 pounds of the yellow stuff, the judge found the train in the early 1900's more to come

Hello All,

The area where the wagon train is as dry as my arm pit and probably smells just as bad. In all seriousness if there is anything there. I figure it would have been found by now given the approximate location and the number of trees around what appears to be the existing spring. The best time to look would be late winter early spring.

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[BirdmanA1]

There are several threads on t-net about this mine, and some postings by direct desendants of ben sublett, you should read them all quite a lot of info.
there is a well known treasure hunter - auther who says he has found it and it is two miles from a hiway, other people say it is in the rustler hills near rustler springs, i have spent alot of time in this country and just does not look like gold country, just to much kaliche and limestone, but several miles west after going into the delaware river valley you start running into ferrous and sandstone formations and can recover a little gold in the creeks and streams.if you travle north on hiway 285 out of pecos and go west at the town of orla on 652 this road intersects 180 at the texas new mexico border, about five mile before you get to this intersection there is a road that goes south called university road on this road you will pass many landmarks that come up in the stories about the sublett mine-delaware spring-burro spring-the chimneys this road splits many time and goes all over that beautiful desert never leaving sight of the guadalupes you can make your way into the apache mountains where there is some gold and silver.
one thing is for sure ben was getting gold from somewhere west of odessa but was never gone long enough to make it to the guadalupes and back, maybe he found it in the guadalupes and moved it closer,the banker who disposed of bens gold had him followed ben camped at a well known crossing of the pecos river the next morning the follower couldnt find old ben and after trying all day to pick his trail back up learned from a sheepherder that ben was already on his way back to odessa, when the follower arrived ben had already disposed of another load of gold, after this ben always brought hard money back with him saying that he had found a jewler to give him a fair price for his gold. some say ben found the lost wagon train of the monahans sand hills, but thats another story, stay in touch i have more

Hey BigScott did the treasure hunter that said he found the mine 2 miles from a highway mention he found anything? So i been exploring the mountains But i think im close. And im 2 miles from the closest highway. The mine i found looks blocked from rocks that fell off the cliff.