However, three men showed up in 1949 with a map that Cody had supposedly drawn for them. The three scoured the area looking for the lost ledge, but they too, were unable to find the rich vein of gold. Today, the legend continues. The lost ledge is said to be somewhere in the hills south of Gabbs.
28-10-2015· Although they had a map to them, yet they could not locate the gold ledge. The tale of the Lost Gold Ledge continues even to today. The ledge which is said to be located somewhere around the hilly areas towards the south of Gabbs, perhaps awaits a fortunate prospector to relocate it someday again. Next: The Rich Mineral Discovery at Goldfield, Nevada
19-01-2015· Doc Thorne's Lost Gold Mine: Next to the Lost Dutchman's Gold, the most talked about and searched for treasure in Arizona over the last century remains Doc Thorne's gold. One searcher claimed to have found veins of gold in a narrow canyon …
The three scoured the area looking for the lost ledge, but they too were unable to find the rich vein of gold. Today, the legend continues. The lost ledge is said to be somewhere in the hills south of Gabbs. Perhaps, you will be the lucky prospector to find it again. © Kathy Weiser/Legends of America, updated July 2020. Also See: Nevada Mining Tales
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08-12-2014· Doc Thorne's Lost Gold Mine: Next to the Lost Dutchman's Gold, the most talked about and searched for treasure in Arizona over the last century remains Doc Thorne's gold. One searcher claimed to have found veins of gold in a narrow canyon …
10-08-2016· "Cave of the Golden Sands" (left) and "Death Valley Gold" (right) are two of John D. Mitchell's lost mine stories published in "Desert Magazine" during 1940 and 1951. Each incorporate varying storylines woven into Earl P. Dorr's legend.
18-04-2017· Lost mines often recall tales like that of Lost Dutchman's Mine, coded maps and the wild west. New England is the last place anyone would expect find a gold mine. But surprisingly the northeastern states did have a short-lived boom in prospecting and gold mining. So far, over 20 lost and forgotten gold mines have been found in New England ...
06-08-2016· In 1923, on a visit to Palm Springs, Ellen strikes up a friendship with Zaddie Bunker and her husband Ed. The Bunkers tell her the local tale of the long lost gold mine of Fig Tree John. In that ...
20-08-2012· It has been estimated, by knowledgeable people, that there is enough information in Arizona concerning what we call treasure and ghost towns to fill half-a-dozen books. Arizona also had more than its share of blood and thunder daysthe stuff of which treasure legends are born. Hostile Indians raided its ranches and mining camps, carrying away…
The real treasure in the mine lies above the pool of water behind the waterfall. Accessing the ledge behind the pool, either by jumping from a nearby ledge or using Whirlwind Sprint, reveals a short passage ending in an alcove containing three gold ore veins.
Lost Cement Gold Mine of Mammoth Mountain, California . The two miners who had allegedly found the lost ledge were killed by the Indians before they were able to tell of its location. Though the "cement" outcropping was never found, the many prospectors who flooded the eastern Sierra region did find gold, ...
10-07-2015· He insisted the gold was real until his dying day in the late 1880s or possibly the early 1890s. A man by the name of George Montgomery was a believer in Charles Breyfogle's lost mine and discovered gold north of Pahrump in January of 1891. He started up a mining operation there known as the Johnnie Mine and in a short time over 100 miners ...
11-09-2010· Wagoner's Lost Gold Mine. The brooding Superstition Mountains of Arizona have drawn more treasure hunters than any other site in the USA. The great majority are hunting for the infamous Lost Dutchman mine of Jacob Waltz or the legendary Peralta mines, which have proven exceedingly difficult to find. Several people have apparently vanished in ...
16-05-2020· Clark was searching for a mine which had been discovered in 1929, a find known locally by the old timers as "The Lost Doukhobor Ledge." Roy Clark, like so many others before and since, was unsuccessful in his long quest although he and a select …
Old Lost Mines, Ghost Towns & Graveyards. If you like stories about old lost gold mines, lost and buried treasures or old ghost towns, you've come to the right place. There are hundreds, or maybe even thousands of these kind of fables and tales about old mines and towns that sprung up out of nowhere.
11-09-2010· Wagoner did mention that he concealed the mine, like Jacob Waltz did with his more famous gold vein, but did leave some kind of markers as a clue in case he ever did need to find it again – he planted a circle of trees around the vein. The mine is located somewhere east of Miner's Needle in the broken hills, and Wagoner even drew a map for the stage driver to help him find the mine so that …
San Antonio, Texas, June 18 - A rich discovery of gold and silver is reported from Burnett county near the Pack Saddle mountains. The vein is four feet wide and consists of rich decomposed ore, strained with iron. Traces of an old Mexican mine and furnaces were found, and it is thought that these are the Lost San Saba mines.
This is the story of William Price and his lost gold mine. Claim 00010: This is the story of a gold mine worked by Spanish explorers during the 18th century. Claim 00011: While hunting, Bud Barkley found a rich ledge of gold on or near the Hobart estate.
19-02-2018· De Soto and his men searched for the gold briefly, and then he set his sights on moving West. Two years later he died on the banks of the Mississippi River in what is now Ferriday, Louisiana. The location of the rich vein of gold attached to this legend has never been discovered. The legend of South Carolina's lost gold mine remains a mystery ...
The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine (also known by similar names) is, according to legend, a rich gold mine hidden in the southwestern United States.The location is generally believed to be in the Superstition Mountains, near Apache Junction, east of Phoenix, Arizona.There have been many stories about how to find the mine, and each year people search for the mine.
19-02-2018· In the 1500s, the native americans in what is now South Carolina discovered a rich vein of gold. It's location is now a mystery, even though it was reportedly the sight of a gold mining town in the 1800s. That town has disappeared and the only record of …
More Oregon Treasures Just Waiting to Be Found. Coos County – According to legend, some forty thousand dollars in gold bars were buried by miners during an Indian attack halfway between Sugar Loaf Mountain and Coquille. Clackamas County – In the area of Government Camp at the base of Mount Hood, a cache of stolen treasure is said to be buried.
16-05-2020· Clark was searching for a mine which had been discovered in 1929, a find known locally by the old timers as "The Lost Doukhobor Ledge." Roy Clark, like so many others before and since, was unsuccessful in his long quest although he and a select handful of Northport pioneers, were convinced that it did, in fact, exist.
06-02-2020· This abandoned mine exploration takes us to the Gold Ledge Mine, a California gold mine. After a Jeep ride, we hike up a rugged mine road to the mine which i...
The Comstock Lode is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the ia Range in ia City, Nevada (then western Utah Territory), which was the first major discovery of silver ore in the United States and named after American miner Henry Comstock.. After the discovery was made public in 1859, it sparked a silver rush of prospectors to the area ...
29-06-2009· Interesting enough the Lost Dutchman mine brought the three of us together again some twenty-eight years later in the spring of 2009. Peter contacted me in January of that year about a lost gold ledge located in the Eagle Mountains of West Texas near the …