Hello friends,
First I want to thank you Beale for explaining this in more depth. I don't mean to be foolish, but your post has raised more questions for me.
Beale wrote:
The gold stored under Victorio Peaks was stored to be removed by King Solomon's followers and slaves. It was never removed due to a plague that nearly wiped out the Indian and slave population that were helping store and mine the gold.
Now not to try to pick apart this version of events, but the reign of Solomon is believed to be ending around 931, 928, 925 or 922 (no two sources agree on this) but at any rate sometime between 930-ish and 920-ish BC. Is there any evidence of a plague striking the Indian population of New Mexico around this time? I am not aware of any, but we ought to note that Hanta virus is endemic to the region and has a very high fatality rate even with modern antibiotics. Or is a plague that struck in Israel? We know why the fleet of Solomon stopped sailing, during the reign of his successor (and son) Rehoboam the province of Edom revolted successfully, so the Hebrews lost the crucial port city of Ezion-geber, the departure point for Ophir. The ten northern tribes also successfully rebelled at this time and established a separate kingdom they called Israel, while the two tribes remaining loyal (Benjamin and Judah) to the house of David became known as Judaea. This period immediately after the reign of Solomon was a time of great upheaval in Judaea, with the ten tribes rebelling and seceding, the loss of Edom and the crucial port on the Red Sea, and an invasion by the pharaoh of Egypt which ended in Judaea having to pay a substantial war indemnity. However despite all the calamities, there is no record of a plague breaking out in the land there either. I would need to see some kind of verification of a plague occurring in NM around the right time to make this connection work.
To continue, Beale wrote:
Some of these surviving Indians moved and dwelled on the South Platte River, not far from Eleven Mile Indian Reservation. That is where Thomas J. Beall and his fellow trappers ran upon them and like Coronado or Cortez, they believed the tales of immense wealth stored under the mountains. That gold is where the Beale Treasure came from also.
Now we are connecting the Victorio Peak treasure not only with king Solomon's mines but with the Beall (also spelled Beale) treasure as well? I have a difficult time accepting the whole Beall treasure tale, personally, as there seems to be little to verify that any treasure existed in the first place. The time period in which Beall is supposed to have traveled to the southwest and mined a great treasure in silver and gold is well before the great "rushes" that followed, and while there was significant Spanish mining activity, Beall would have had to face great dangers from Apaches, Navajos and other hostile tribes, as well as the Spanish authorities; then have transported his treasure across the country safely. (I say Spanish authorities because Beale is supposed to have obtained his treasure in 1818, and Mexico did not win independence until 1821) Not impossible of course but I would have a much easier time accepting the Beall treasure tale if we had some record of a Beall making application for a mining claim to Spanish authorities or of selling gold or silver etc. Worse yet, most theorists place the origin of the Beale treasure to the NW of Santa Fe New Mexico, which is quite some distance north of Victorio Peak. Victorio Peak lies within the beautiful White Sands desert (and missile range) which was tremendously dangerous in 1818 to any white man. Most sources on the Beall treasure make no mention of any connection to king Solomon, at least none that I have ever found. That does not mean it is impossible, just that I have failed to find any connection here. Why too, should we assume that Beale got his treasure from Victorio Peak? A goodly part of the Beale treasure was in silver, yet there is little silver mentioned in the Victorio Peak treasure. I find this part of the theory difficult to accept, based on my failure to find any connections to support it.
Beale also wrote:
If you will ask, several members on this forum that have access to Presidential Papers that will reveal that the gold taken from Victorio Peaks had been there for thousands of years. It had nothing to do with the Spanish. The Spanish did not even know that it was there. The black Indians, I can not remember their tribe name, but I do have it in my research, passed down the tales of their forefathers and then passed this story to Thomas J. Beall, Jules de Munn and Augustus Chateau. The black Indians of Colorado is a parallel story with the Melungeons of Kentucky. They were brought over to be miners. Most of the blood of the Melungeons and the black Indians have similar characteristics to the Porteguese and along the inner coast lines of the Mediterranean Sea.
Well I don't have access to Presidential papers so cannot verify this portion; I could accept that the Victorio Peak treasure has nothing to do with the Spanish (there are many theories as to the actual origin, including the James gang, Emperor Maximilian, etc) but based on the photos I have seen of treasure removed from the cave or tunnels includes items that certainly do not appear to be "ancient" in terms of thousands of years, more like 100 or 200 or 300 - such as the diamond 'tiara' for instance.
As for black Indians, I have no problem with this, except for finding any in New Mexico. There have been reports of black Indians (and there are some today) for centuries, and the old excuse that they must have been "runaway slaves" will not hold water, for the very first European explorers to reach Florida encountered black Indians, and tribes of black Indians were reported in Mexico and South America; for that matter the Olmecs were almost certainly black Africans, not Asiatic type Indians. Recent DNA tests on the Melungeon tribe have shown direct blood relations to Portuguese, which is what Melungeons have been saying since first encountered by Anglos. As far as I know, no black Indians have been found in New Mexico, unless recently arrived.
Beale also wrote:
Why do you think the US Government want the Beale Treasure so badly. It sure isn't because they can not break the cypher code. It is because they don't want anyone to know about where the gold came from at Victorio Peaks. But, mostly they do not want any implications of a link between the Beale Treasure and the stolen gold from Victorio Peaks. They keep two federal agents on duty 24-7 at the Peaks of Otter. Listening trying to find out the whereabouts of the Beale Treasure, then they will quite it away just like the Victorio Peaks gold. They also, US Government, have at least two airplanes that fly over the National Forest out of Lynchburg, once or twice dailey. Maybe nights too, you really can't tell, but I do know they fly in the day time.
Well for the first question, the quick and simple answer is government greed. Any time a large treasure is found, Uncle Sam has his hand out, as do about every government entity that can make a claim against it. I have never heard of any Feds keeping track though, this is new and mysterious.
Beale wrote:
There are also documents stored with the jewelry trunk of the Beale Treasure. These documents have damaging evidence that the US Government do not want the public to know. Especially, what the US Government did to overthrow the Spanish out of the Southwest. All of this will come out when I finish my book, "The lost diaries of Thomas J. Beall." Also, these documents and the Beale Treasure led to the assassination of Presidents, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. Three of our first five Presidents. Maybe even President James Madison? The other three Presidents all died on July 4th. Adams and Jefferson on July 4th, 1827 and James Monroe on July 4th, 1832. James Madison may have been assassinated a few days earlier, maybe opportunity was best earlier, but he was buried on the 4th of July. These assassinations could have been carried out by England which threatened all that signed the DOI with death or it could have been by Spain for expulsion from the Southwest. Surely records in Spain and in Great Britain should shed some light on this? I know the Beale Treasure would.
How do we know that there are documents stored with the Beale treasure? If there are documents stored with this treasure, how can we know what is contained in them? I am quick to suspect our government of many things, but it seems this idea may well be based on speculation or rumor, at least in my opinion. Why would you state that presidents JQ Adams, Jefferson and Monroe were all assassinated? Here is what I found on the deaths of these three presidents:
John Quincy Adams died of a cerebral hemorrhage on February 23, 1848, in the Speaker's Room inside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Jefferson died on the Fourth of July, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the same day as John Adams' death. Thomas Jefferson was deep in debt when he died.
Upon Elizabeth's death, James Monroe moved to live with his daughter Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur in New York City and died there from heart failure and tuberculosis on July 4, 1831, 55 years after the U.S. Declaration of Independence was proclaimed and 5 years after the death of Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
The other president Adams may be whom you were meaning to refer to, here is what I found on his death:
On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Adams died in Quincy, Massachusetts.
It is an odd coincidence that three presidents died on the fourth of July, yet not that odd - in fact to a religious person it might have real meaning. I fail to see any indication that these presidents were assassinated. Like you mentioned, perhaps records in Spain or Britain might shed more light and support for these theories.
Lastly, Beale wrote:
But, to make a long story short, the gold in Victorio Peaks belonged to King Solomon.
That is quite a theory, but without some kind of evidence to support the idea it remains only an interesting and intriguing theory. If you can provide some kinds of evidence to link the Victorio peak treasure with king Solomon (say the finding of the seal of Solomon on some of the gold bars recovered for instance) and/or the Beale treasure, I would sure appreciate if you would share the information. Otherwise what this seems to be is a fascinating theory with elements of conspiracy, foreign intrigue, assassinations and coverup with nothing to make the connections solid. If you can shed more light on this version, Victorio Peak=King Solomons mines=Beale treasure, I would sure love to hear it. Thank you in advance,
Roy ~ Oroblanco