The Lost Dutchmen Mine and the Peg Leg Pete Mine

Harold Cohn

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"One who searches for what is not lost is a fool": ! The book "THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE and PEG LEG PETE MINE" may lead one to the forgoing conclusion in regards to the Lost Dutchman Mine. However, after over five years of research and writing this writer can state that his conclusions are not fact nor fiction, just supposition. However, the book is designed to allow the reader to answer the forgoing questions about fact or fiction about the Lost Dutchman Mine. In regards to the Peg Leg Pete Mine (a supposition essay) the reader is allowed to answer the question about factor fiction for themselves. This writer's first journey into the past began when he wrote "THE EL MONTE PARK HISTORY" when he was working at El Monte Park (Lakeside, California). as a Park Ranger After, thirteen months of research and writing the completed work (THE EL MONTE PARK HISTORY) contained twelve pages. Years later in an abandoned pump house (8'x16') located in El Monte Park; Artist/Muralist Mona and Ranger Harold Cohn created the "THE EL MONTE OAKS MUSEUM" by Mona Mills, Artist/ Muralist painting murals on the interior walls of the abandoned pump based on the book "the EL MONTE PARK HISTORY". I addition the second article this write saw published was titled: 'THE GOLDEN ONION" which appeared un the November/December issue of "GOLD PROSPECTOR MAGAZINE". Years later, Ranger Cohn took a one day course offered by Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, California titled: "INDIANS of the Desert". The course was a driving/walking tour of ancient Native American site in the Anza-Borrego Stte Park (California). Lowell and Diana Lindsay of Sunbelt Books were the instructors. it was during this tour this writer saw his first pictograph (example of Native American rock art). Diana Lindsay was giving a supposition explanation of the pictograph to the group (30-35) people. The pictograph measured *'8x12". First she said the meaning of the pictograph could be spiritual. Next she stated the pictograph could be about fertility. Then one of the group hollered out: "ITS GRAFFITI!". Then it was like a black curtain dropped. The people disappeared. There was just this writer and this writer and the pictograph. I shouted out: "THE DAMNED THING IS A MAP!' I returned to the real world at this point. I was welcomed the group\s laughter which continued the rest of the day and all of the next day for the class titled: "PIONEER'S of the DESERT: Years later I was taking a creative writing course titled: "ARTICLES WRITING". As with all creative writing, if you turned your three assignment you automatically received your "A" for the class. I had a bad case if writer's block , I was it trouble! I stuck! Then said to myself write about that pictograph you saw in the desert. As with all creative assignments every one in the class receives a copy of the article the writer has written as the writer reads it aloud. After the writer is finished the writer's work open to comments by the class. After I finished reading my article, 'THE STONE SPOKE: a classmate, "A LITTLE OLD LADY" screamed: "YOU CAN'T DO THAT I answered: MADAMN, I JUST DID! Years later and years of research and writing I wrote the e-book titled" THE STONE SPOKE". The forgoing book contains a series of supposition essay of Native American rock and related subjects. It is available barnes&noble.com.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Southwest
• State
• United States
• History
• Local

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• Publié par: Outskirts Press
• Date de parution: 14 septembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781478729549
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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The Lost Dutchmen Mine and the Peg Leg Pete Mine
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ONLY A FOOL SEARCHES FOR WHAT IS NOT LOST!
—Harold Cohn
Preface
As a writer, I could start this book of suppositional essays with: It was a dark stormy night. However, it was a cool sunny day in San Diego, California, in the winter of 1960. I had graduated from Navy boot camp at Great Lakes, Illinois. I was now attending shipfitter “A” School at the Naval Training Center, San Diego, California.
It was a Saturday between paydays. I was broke! I did not have any money to go to town. So I went to the base library instead. While at the library, I picked up a Popular Mechanics magazine. I read a story about the Lost Dutchman Gold. After reading the story, I said to myself: “Someday, I am going find that gold mine.
Fifty-six years later I am writing this book. The following suppositional essays in this book will be determined to be fact, fiction, or the ramblings of a CRAZY OLD MAN by the reader.
Three or four years ago, I took my grandson (a Native American) to the Anza-Borrego State Park in California (in the desert) to show him a pictograph (Native American rock art) I was going write a suppositional interpretation about. While traveling down the trail to the pictograph site, I jumped from one rock to another; I came down wrong and dislocated the ball of my right foot.
The result of the accident was surgery and three to four months is a wheelchair. The wheelchair became my prison, and I was doing the time. Note: the hardest thing in the world to do is nothing! I had a lot of time to do the following.
Then I got lucky! I was surfing the WEB on when an accident laid me up for four months and found the website: desertusa.com. That website is an online magazine about the desert. The first article I read was about the Peralta Stones and the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. The article was the start of an adventure into the past and this book of suppositional essays that has lasted years.
Note: Only a fool would look for something that is not lost. This essay is beginning written so the Superstition Mountains no longer claim the lives of fools.
Table of Contents
A. THE LOST DUTCHMAN GOLD MINE
CHAPTER ONE: NATIVE AMERICANS
CHAPTER TWO: PERALTA STONES
CHAPTER THREE: THE CIRCLESTONE RUIN, ARIZONA
CHAPTER FOUR: PERALTA MINERS’ ROUTE TO THE LOST DUTCHMAN GOLD MINE MAP
CHAPTER FIVE: PERALTA MASSACRE
CHAPTER SIX: PERALTA LOCATOR MAP
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE LOST DUTCHMAN GOLD MINE/THE JULIA THOMAS MAP
CHAPTER EIGHT: DIRECTIONS TO THE LOST DUTCHMAN GOLD MINE GIVEN TO REINEY RIENHART BY JACOB WALTZ
CHAPTER NINE: THE BARK’S-ELY MAP DRAWN BY TOM WEEDEN
CHAPTER TEN: THE JACOB WEISER/DR. WALKER STORY
CHAPTER ELEVEN: JOHN PIPPS STORY
CHAPTER TWELVE: TWO SOLDIERS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: JACOB WEISER STORY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: JACOB WALTZ’S DEATH
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: DICK HOLMES TIME OF POSSESSION OF THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: JOE DEERING DIRECTIONS TO THE LOST DUTCHMAN GOLD MINE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: “ADOLPH RUTH’S DIRECTIONS TO THE LOST DUTCHMAN MINE”
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: DACITE CLIFFS MINE/LOST DUTCHMAN MINE CLOSURE ORDER
CHAPTER NINETEEN: IN CONCLUSION
CHAPTER TWENTY: ADDENDUM: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE BURBRIDGE MAP BY HAROLD COHN
B. PEG LEG PETE’S LOST MINE
PEG LEG PETE’S LOST MINE A SUPPOSITIONAL ESSAY
A. THE LOST DUTCHMAN GOLD MINE
CHAPTER ONE
NATIVE AMERICANS
The story of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine begins on a band of fertile desert sand beneath barren drab cliffs. Here grew a desert Eden, a natural food source for Native Americans. Just above this desert Garden of Eden was a vein of white quartz with a band of gold at its center (the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine).
Some of this gold was collected by the Native Americans, and they wore it. However, the Native Americans attached no value to the gold.
The first known gold in the Americas was in the Caribbean. When Columbus first met the natives of the Caribbean, he observed they were wearing gold. He asked them to show him where the source of gold was, and they did. I assume the Jesuit priest of the Peralta party did the same thing with the Native Americans of the Superstition Mountains, and the result was the same, slavery.
CHAPTER TWO
PERALTA STONES
PERALTA STONES (1847) FIND LOST DUTCHMAN GOLD MINE
Does the riddle of the Peralta Stones reveal the location of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona? The reader can make this determination after reading this essay.
To solve the riddle of the Peralta Stones, this writer relied on the research experience obtained by writing suppositional essays about Native American rock art, perseverance, and dumb luck. The research for this essay is based on supposition, the relationship of the symbols on individual stones, and the repetition of symbols between different stones.

PERALTA STONE ONE

DRAWING BY HAROLD COHN
The first stone in the series of Peralta Stones story is the Priest Stone Map. The Peralta Stones story starts with the priest blessing the journey of a shipment of Dacite Cliffs Mine gold to its processing and storage area at Red Mountain.
The story starts with the heart symbol, the Church.
The second symbol is a lower circle within a circle and is the Dacite Cliffs Gold Mine (the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine).
The third symbol is a partial circle formed by a parallel lines symbol, which links the heart symbol to the coffin symbol.
The third coffin symbol represents massacre grounds at the western exit from the Superstition Mountains at the west end of the Fremont Saddle where the Spanish were massacred by the Apaches.
Note: The Lost Dutchman Mine’s gold did not make it to its final destination at the Red Mountain Gold Mine processing and storage site. Additional Note: one Mexican boy, age twelve, survived the massacre.
Shortly after the massacre, a priest at Red Mountain recorded the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine’s location and directions on how to find the gold mine on the Peralta Stones Map. The heart symbol, donut symbol, and the symbols on the Priest Stones Map indicates the secret gold mine will be found and the reopened. The gold lost during the Apache massacre by the miners will be replaced with the crown of Spain.
The heart symbol is the Peralta Heart, which will be found and interpreted. Then the gold mine (the donut) will be found and the gold replaced and returned (the paralleled partial circle lines) to the Church.
The fourth symbol is a horizontal line attached to an upside-down letter “U”; attached to another horizontal line is a knoll. The knoll is Jacob Waltz’s (The Dutchman’s), an abstract vision of a sombrero (a hat) on the Peralta Canyon to Fremont Saddle Trail. This sombrero landmark was the entrance to The Dutchman Gold Mine Trail, as it was known by Jacob Waltz.

A photograph of the sombrero symbol on the trail to the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine via the Peralta Canyon to Fremont Saddle can be viewed at: http://www.protrails.com/gallery/state?superstition-wilderness-the-peralta trail…


DRAWING BY HAROLD COHN
PERALTA STONE TWO

DRAWING BY HAROLD COHN
The second stone of the Peralta Stones is the Horse Stone Map. The first symbol of the Horse Map is a cross located above the word “EL.” This represents the dead of another massacre by the Apache of miners trying to escape from the eastern exit from the Superstition Mountains to the desert.
The next symbol is the stretched letter “S” above the cross. This symbol is Hwy 79. This symbol is followed by the straight line that starts at the edge of the page above the letter “S” symbol and passes through a donut as it travels downward at an angle to where the stretched connects to it.
The point where the letter “S’” symbol connects to the straight line symbol is the FLORENCE Junction. A short distance southwest of the Florence Junction is a wavy line, which is the original route of the S. Apache Trail.
There are two points of interest that are not on the Peralta Horse Map that are described in the article “ Reading the Peralta Stone Maps.” On the front side of the Latin Heart are two Latin words that need to be interjected at this time. They are the Latin terms found in the article “Reading the Peralta Stone Maps,” “Moneta” and Meridies Cacumen.” The word “Moneta” in Latin translates to Smelter or Arista, a place where valuable metals are worked. The phrase “Meridies Cacumen” from Latin to English translates to “highest point to the south.”
The locations of the foregoing terms are Remer, Arizona, and Denoon, Arizona, which are located on the highest point of the area. It also was the location of a silver mine and smelter operation.
Southeast of the junction of Hwy 60 and Hwy 177 on Hwy 177 is the community of Ray, Arizona. Directly west of the community of Ray and in front of the Sleeping Beauty Peak is a geographic formation that looks like a naïve letter “E.” It is assumed this “E” is the letter “E” by the horse’s tail symbol on the Horse Stone Map.




Directly south of the community of Ray, Arizona, on Hwy 177 is the community Sonora, Arizo