Dutchman and his Gold mine
How
the Spanish Found the
Lost Dutchman Mine
Page 2. Finding Gold
Cec told me the
Spanish worked their way up the canyons until they found out
cropings.
there were 3 or 4 on a black toped
mountain an two or three
others. The Spanish mined the veins, which were chimney
veins. this happened around 1847
At first they got along with the
Indians. Then for some reason
the Indians got mad an attacked the
miners.
Cec said: years ago
an old Indian called Jack,
told the story of what happened to a writer. Jack said he
was twelve years old at the time his people attacked the Spanish
miners. Jack said his people had got along very good with the
miners. but something happened that was not talked about and the Indian
leaders ordered an attack to chase off the Spanish. Jack said:
the battle lasted four days there was more than a hundred
miners. and the last of the miners were killed in front of
Superstition Mountain on the desert. Then the women an children
droped the miners tools into the mines on Black Top, which were about
ninety feet deep, then they made home made cement called gilichie,
poured that in then filled the rest of the vertical shafts with dirt
and gravel. Jack said: there was one mine they did not fill
in, It was so hard to get to, and almost impossible to find, that
the older Indians said leave it open, because we may need gold someday
it's worth alot to white men. A few days after Jack told his
story he was found dead in his hut. he had been poisoned.
The Spanish tell
the same story. according to
the Spanish three or four managed to escape the attack by
hideing. and got back to Mexico. these men said they fought
the Indians an took as much gold as they could with them, some
held up in a cave, they said the cave was where the black top mountain
looks different. they poured some of the gold on the cave floor
an covered it with dirt. Then taking the rest of the gold
with them, they fought til the final battle on the desert outside of
the mountains. Cec said years later a man with a mineral locator
found about twenty five thousand in gold in front of Superstition
Mountain, I think the year the man was suppost to have found the gold
was in the 1960's. about the time I got involved in looking.