Still, my suspicion is that it was done during a flurry of stone marking about 1900 (well documented BTW) or earlier by a Spanish surveyor.
So, why would the Spanish surveyor write in Hebrew? Well, maybe he was a Hebrew. He wasn't in Spain. By 1600s open persecution of the Jews in Spain had slacked off, and there were tens of thousands of Moranos whose families kept up the knowledge of Hebrew IN SECRET.
Out there in the middle of nowhere in a small group there were NO SECRETS.
if you look through the pictures of American Indian pictoglyphs and shamen's symbols found in that same region you'll notice the same lack of wear.
BTW, we know of a fellow who was a chuck wagon cook back in the good old days (early 1900s) who wandered all over the Southwest with his uncle and brother ~ chasing cows, etc.
He wrote Japanese characters all over the place ~ kind of like 'Hiro Was Here" ~ in 1942 or thereabouts these characters were discovered, gathered up, and shipped to Army intelligence for evaluation since the finders feared Japanese invasion from Mexico. They ended up at Fort Snelling where his new son inlaw recognized the work!
Archaeologists have also discovered Japanese characters carved into rocks in the Southwest near Zuni territory. They are much older!
The Mormons started Migrating to California in 1848 and it’s conceivable one might have stopped to carve this on the rock.
Problem is, it ain’t Hebrew or even some forgotten language.
I tried to find this script in Gloria Farley’s book In Plain Sight: Olde World Records in Ancient America. I looked especially in the back where a number of ancient scripts, particularly from Dr. Barry Fell are shown. The most similarity was to Iberian alphabets, but even there, only a few elements were the same. There was no similarity to Aramaic or Phoenician script. Nor was there to north African scripts, Celtic or Rune scripts. A repeated element on the stone was a V lying on its side with a slash running across it. I did not see that anywhere.