The Lost Dutchmen Mine and the Peg Leg Pete Mine

By Harold Cohn

"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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Release date: Sep 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781478729549

Harold Cohn

Harold Cohn is a published poet, writer and has been writing creatively for over twenty-five years. The author is a Disabled Vietnam Combat Vet and retired Park Ranger.

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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