Strebs
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Has anyone ever looked into this legend? I've seen two different versions of it.
In Apache gold and Yaqui Silver, By Frank Dobie talked about the "Lost boy mine" that shares many similarities. Orphan boy leaves to silver city through the wilderness, finds a waterfall and golden ledge behind the water. a man of "burbank" in silver city befriends the boy and has the ore assayed for 150,000 per ton. The kid writes to his uncle and then goes missing, the uncle meets Captain Cooney 1892 then Cooney picks up the trail finds an abandoned camp but no trail.
Here is the the Turner version of the story.
"Known only as Turner, the prospector discovered a fabulously rich mine somewhere near Sycamore Creek in the Mogollon Mountains. Turner's strike took place in 1883. Later that same year he mysteriously disappeared into the mountains, never to be seen again. At least alive. In 1889, his skeleton was found in Sycamore Canyon.
Michael Cooney became interested in Turner's lost mine during the 1890's. He thought enough of the story to make numerous trips into the mountains in search of the lost mine. In 1914, Cooney made his last attempt to find the mine. He never came back from that trip. The following year, Cooney's body was discovered in Sycamore Canyon." From: The Lost Mine of Sycamore Creek
In Apache gold and Yaqui Silver, By Frank Dobie talked about the "Lost boy mine" that shares many similarities. Orphan boy leaves to silver city through the wilderness, finds a waterfall and golden ledge behind the water. a man of "burbank" in silver city befriends the boy and has the ore assayed for 150,000 per ton. The kid writes to his uncle and then goes missing, the uncle meets Captain Cooney 1892 then Cooney picks up the trail finds an abandoned camp but no trail.
Here is the the Turner version of the story.
"Known only as Turner, the prospector discovered a fabulously rich mine somewhere near Sycamore Creek in the Mogollon Mountains. Turner's strike took place in 1883. Later that same year he mysteriously disappeared into the mountains, never to be seen again. At least alive. In 1889, his skeleton was found in Sycamore Canyon.
Michael Cooney became interested in Turner's lost mine during the 1890's. He thought enough of the story to make numerous trips into the mountains in search of the lost mine. In 1914, Cooney made his last attempt to find the mine. He never came back from that trip. The following year, Cooney's body was discovered in Sycamore Canyon." From: The Lost Mine of Sycamore Creek
