Posted on 09/09/2009 10:14:03 AM PDT by Nikas777
Luv stories like this- fiction or true. A good read.
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For those of you with whetted appetites and muscles yet unwizened, whip out those compasses and the Tom-Toms and scout around here:
http://www.goldrushmining.net/hidden_treasures_of.htm
Good stuff. The human psyche craves spirit quests and grail hunts.
About two years ago we visited the area to see the southern parts we had missed on previous trips to Arizona. We stayed in Bisbee but drove extensively in the area south of that town from east to west. We traveled from just east of Douglas to Nogales sticking close to the border. Douglas is like going back 50 years or so.
I was looking to see what the minutemen were all about. We saw lots of evidence of illegals including one major BP bust west of Coranado National Monument and twenty or so running across the hiway and up a draw just west of Nogales.
I don’t like the area nearly as much as the north and Navajo/Hopi country. It does have stark desert beauty however.
So it seems.
Thx.
In 'real life' I really don't talk about these topics with many people but I love reading about them so I find posting them and discussing them is really cool - even if it is to debunk the story - still cool. Even of these stories are aspects of our imagination it still is illuminating because it tells us how the mind sometimes sees reality.
It is approachable on many levels this way.
My father-in-law has a claim on a mine in the Huachuca Mountains south of Sierra Vista. The mine is from the 1600’s. Not very extensive; it goes back about 150 feet, but interesting that people were actually mining in the area that long ago.
That’s super cool. You need to buy a bright red pick up lettered “Universal Mining Ltd, Perth AU” Then drive it in and out for a week or so to attract attention. .
I’ve heard a gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.
You still have miners out there - they can earn enough from gold dust to earn a livable income or to supplement retirement income. Not an easy life. And amongst the 24/7 miners out there that are insane with the gold bug they have in their heads secret maps to mines only they know about according to the lore.
There’s supposedly treasure on the north side of the Huachuca inside the perimeter of Fort Huachuca. The place is dotted with test holes. There’s even a story about a soldier who stopped to go to the bathroom on the side of the road leading to Tombstone, who fell down a shaft and died; didn’t see it in the dark.
An awesome story!
...And a hug when your toe gets stubbed, a dab at the nose when times get hard, a warm, moist breath on the back of the neck as the lazy sun raises her head from night’s long dark cushion.
High among the rugged terrain bordering Mexico, my brother Chuck and I discovered a location where time itself is altered... I was 23; Chuck was 26.Just now telling us about it. Must have lost track of time... ;') Thanks Nikas777.
Juan turns to Pedro: "Amigo, did I tell you about the time that I hijacked a plane from Cancun to Mexico City?"
-PJ
Well, I like Tucson because it is not a yuppified as the Phoenix area and we have dear friends in the Sabino Canyon area so we keep coming back every year, finally bought a house there and hope to sell in WA and make it permanent. Tucson is a big small town and still blue collar in a way Scottsdale could never be. I do like northern AZ but way to rural for me. I would never wander around near the Nogales border and our friends have a friend who has a ranch on the border and the illegals steal cows, and anything not nailed down, not to mention bathrooming on his property.
I feel similarly.
Fun story. Thanks for posting.
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