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by oroblanco
Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:27 pm
Forum: Lost Mines and Buried Treasure
Topic: Lost Arch Mine in the Turtle Mts, Ca
Replies: 28
Views: 145841

Re: Lost Arch Mine in the Turtle Mts, Ca

I will leave that decision to you amigo - though he seems like the right kind on all counts, he may well snore like a buzz-saw!
Roy
by oroblanco
Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:26 pm
Forum: The Lost Dutchman Mine
Topic: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM
Replies: 878
Views: 2360469

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM

Jim Hatt wrote That is your prerogative Roy, but it does not justify trying to force your beliefs on everyone else. Tell them what you think, and offer them the benefit of whatever experience you may have. Then let do their own thing, while you wander off to do your thing. A double edged sword if ev...
by oroblanco
Sat Jun 05, 2010 9:02 pm
Forum: The Lost Dutchman Mine
Topic: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM
Replies: 878
Views: 2360469

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM

PS - danged near forgot, but I do have very different standards for a lost treasure story, and a treasure map especially one that is in the public availability. There are dozens of them in circulation, and so far as I know, none have proved to lead to treasures - YET. That can change at any time, bu...
by oroblanco
Sat Jun 05, 2010 8:24 pm
Forum: The Lost Dutchman Mine
Topic: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM
Replies: 878
Views: 2360469

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM

Jim Hatt wrote What we are concerned with is what he told them during that last two months of his life! My God Roy... It seems that you will go any extreme to find something to disagree about. When is the last time you took a vacation? BETH!!!!!!! I think Roy needs a little more TLC than he has been...
by oroblanco
Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:48 pm
Forum: The Lost Dutchman Mine
Topic: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM
Replies: 878
Views: 2360469

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM

Hola amigos, Jim Hatt wrote, in reply to our mutual amigo Ashton, As written in Sims Ely's book "The Lost Dutchman Mine" (The only author who ever interviewed people who got their information directly from Jacob Waltz). Waltz was only at the Mine (LDM) 3 times. Once with the Peraltas (That...
by oroblanco
Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:37 pm
Forum: The Lost Dutchman Mine
Topic: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM
Replies: 878
Views: 2360469

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM

Ashton wrote
The question regarding the Holmes manuscript is just who was doing the conning?
Good question! We are all guessing for the answer to that one.
Oroblanco
by oroblanco
Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:44 pm
Forum: The Lost Dutchman Mine
Topic: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM
Replies: 878
Views: 2360469

Re: GENERAL DISCUSSION - Anything related to the LDM

Welcome to DesertUSA AshtonPage ! :mrgreen: The story of Waltz coming in to Florence to hire a carpenter to build him a device originates in the "Pioneer Interviews" which were done by writers working for the WPA during the Depression years, in order to get their stories before they all p...
by oroblanco
Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:57 pm
Forum: Rock Hounding & Lapidary
Topic: Agates
Replies: 11
Views: 27588

Re: Agates

Search 'n' rescue, she is still trying to help the folks who are still looking to find Jesse Capen from over 1000 miles away in any way she can. I hope that guy turns up in some casino in Vegas having a wild party, though he might have to take some lumps for faking a disappearance at least he would ...
by oroblanco
Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:57 pm
Forum: Rock Hounding & Lapidary
Topic: Agates
Replies: 11
Views: 27588

Re: Agates

Wow - cool pix amigo, great work, and I am NEVER going to make it as a rockhound - those look like pretty ordinary rocks to me and I would never have even picked one up. Keep up the great work amigo! :mrgreen:
Roy
by oroblanco
Mon May 31, 2010 8:18 pm
Forum: General Desert Information
Topic: Chiricahua mountains Memorial Weekend....
Replies: 4
Views: 10099

Re: Chiricahua mountains Memorial Weekend....

Hola amigo - LOVE the photos, sorry to hear about the frigging fire (pardon me language) hopefully either nature or the firefighters will get it under control and OUT soon. I love the Chiricahuas, really some of "God's country" and your pix darn near make a fellow start feeling homesick. Roy