Re: Jesuit's marks and symbols
.Good evening mi buddy gully. Let's have a bit of coffee while we sit next to the campfire
extra for any that wish to join us. Put that broken leg here next to the fire.
A) Remember the Jesuit actually taught mining in their colleges in Mexico.
B) Many Jesuit adjunctors, not ordained ones, actually ran the mines for many owners in Mexico, as well as the Jesuit ones.
C) While the Jesuits may have been publically prohibited from mining in the new world, they certainly mined in the old. So any prohibition by the order must have been for political reasons. Since the Adjunctors did not take the same vows (?) they were free to work in the society's interest thus allowing the society to say with a straight face " No we never mined". And it is probably true that most of the Mission Jesuits did not.mine.
D) In the second photograph on your websight, the detector is a Gardner 180 - 190 series, about $1,000 then (50's) when a white could be bought for $ 100. It was by far the best in it's day, and still can give a good run for ones money. It could discriminate and ground balance when most of the competition could not. The exception was an induction balance detector. As for usage, it had a fantastically well balanced physical configuration, this along with that 3 ' coil, allowed speedy ground coverage in "clean, open ground, but was useless in heavy brush.
I would like to have one again, that big coil would punch down 16 ft on a refrigerator. I found 8 mule loads of 8 Reales with one.
E) Regarding signs, normally I doubt that they made any that would actually say "dig here". They would be merely a reminder when in the area. Additonal data must have been required. As an example, when I was at el Limon, near Chinapas, Chihuahua, there were a couple of young men camped out near by that kept to themselves. they were polite, but distant.
After a few weeks, we finally did become friends, they then told me that they were Jesuits. (unordained ) and confided that they were looking for a gold mine that had been covered up. However they couldn't find it, even though they had all the details. They asked me to keep looking for them since they had to return to Rome. Naturally I agreed, but unfortunately they never gave me the final details ?? So, without the missing data I did not even try.,. so it is still lost. They have never returned. The mine is still closed.
Don Jose de La Mancha
