(An old Spanish gold bar or "dore.")
(Note: This post is out of sequence due to a Blogger publishing glitch. Sorry for any confusion. Jim)
In this, Part 3 of this series of posts, Al Hainey continues with his waybill to the possible location of lost Spanish gold in Utah's Henry Mountains
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In this, Part 3 of this series of posts, Al Hainey continues with his waybill to the possible location of lost Spanish gold in Utah's Henry Mountains
:"3 Concretions Split in Half"
"Well, after 'Pancho' read all that Spanish writing we sat down to talk things over. 'Pancho' said that one thing we needed to look for was a sign that was different or unusual. The old writing in the hidden cave said this sign would be 3 round concretions split in half like apples."
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"Next thing we needed to do was use those 3 halved objects like a surveyor's scope. If we lined those 3 'splits' up and sighted through 'em just right they would point the way to the old Spanish mine."
(Note: Al Hainey never provided additional details on just exactly what those '3 concretions' split in half were. Deformed hillocks? Cracked boulders? Or some other sort of natural formation? This omission on Hainey's part is disconcerting, to say the least .J.R.)
An Old Smelter
"I'll make a longer story shorter by saying that me and 'Pancho' found that landmark mentioned in the old Spanish cave writings. Sure as can be, when you lined 'em up and looked through 'em just right they pointed to a bench on one of the smaller peaks of the Henrys right near a natural spring."
We was pretty excited by that time and made our way over to that area as quick as we could. When we got there right away we found an old smelter
....there was no mistaking just what it was. Hell, right away I was thinkin' we was rich men and I pounded old 'Pancho' on the back till I like to broke it!"
....there was no mistaking just what it was. Hell, right away I was thinkin' we was rich men and I pounded old 'Pancho' on the back till I like to broke it!""Nada"
"Right away we started searchin' high and low for the old mine tunnel itself and any outcroppings or veins carrying gold. Well we kept on searchin,' first for days, then weeks, then a month or longer but we found nothin.' No metal slag, no pretty quartz 
with gold shot through it, nada."
with gold shot through it, nada.""'Pancho, well he got pretty disgusted with the bad hand we'd been dealt, and one morning he up and quit on me sayin' he was tired and hungry and figgered he'd be better off tryin' to make a few dollars herdin' sheep in the flatlands below."
A Handful of Rusty Rocks
"I stayed on a few more weeks until the supplies run out and then I packed up too. But before I left I made one more search around the old smelter and picked up a few rocks layin' around it that were sort of rusty lookin'."
Don't exactly know why those rocks caught my eye...they wasn't pretty like jewelry quartz and a feller couldn't see no gold
in them. But I picked up a handful and carried them down the mountain so's I could get 'em fire assayed one day when I was flush again."
in them. But I picked up a handful and carried them down the mountain so's I could get 'em fire assayed one day when I was flush again."(Note: Many gold ores exhibit a rusty or reddish-orange appearance to the naked eye, typically a sign of strong iron or iron sulphide oxidation and mineralization. J.R.)
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That's it for this round. I'll present the conclusion to this intriguing treasure tale of lost gold in a subsequent post.
Good hunting!
If you liked this post, you may want to read: "Gold Detector Reviews: Garrett's 'Infinium LS' (Part 1)"
(c) J.R. 2010
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