- I hope this is the same as the Lost Adams "Diggings"
- St. Johns herald and Apache news. [volume] (St. Johns, Apache Co., Ariz.), 13 July 1916.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...t=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=9
In my opinion that is the Lost Adams Diggings ("Diggin's"). Technically, of course, it was never a mine. It was, at best, a prospect. A glory hole that may have been rapidly cleaned out.
It would be interesting to search the March 1916 issues of the Gallup Independent.
Good luck to all,
The Old Bookaroo
Very Long Full Page Article on the Addams Diggings
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...ings&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...ings&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
sdcfia:
Yes, the Byerts pamphlet is still available. I reprinted it some years ago because copies were unobtainable at the time. Ed Bartholomew ("Jesse Rascoe") wrote me and said he didn't think it existed - that J. Frank Dobie had just made it up. Obviously, that was a rare time when Ed was mistaken. It's a very important piece of the legend. It's not, of course, the whole story. But then, what is?
Good luck to all,
The Old Bookaroo
No...I can't remember the title....It's in the Silver city library.....there were actually 2 different references in 2 different books about Adams coming to the Reserve area and looking for the mine.
The guy must have had a terrible sense of direction....
The value - $300,000 - and the allegation that it is a "hidden treasure" seem to indicate that it is something else. The "Adams Diggings" has almost always been described as a placer gold deposit. But ... who knows? Captain Jones seemed to think he did.