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Is this the same site someone claimed was a church right off Peralta road?
Reavis ranch is above iron mountain.
Barks ranch is around Peralta road.
Visited the site today. I don't know what it was but it was a nice size. Had some cut stone work. View attachment 1223426View attachment 1223427View attachment 1223428
The Pious Fund
"The missions founded by the Pious Fund were named after saints, martyrs, and notable Christian characters, rather than the living donors.
Padre Salvatierra and Padre Kino were very good business men. They accumulated a vast sum of money for investment in this Pious Fund to establish missions. They made good investments and were able to collect an average of five percent interest throughout the long period during which the fund was used. Practically all of the lower Jesuit missions in Lower California, Sonora, and Arizona were established out of this trust fund. The fund was honestly and efficiently administered by the Jesuits up to the time of their expulsion in 1767, after which it was also efficiently administered by the Franciscans who succeeded the Jesuits. This sizable Pious Fund had a history. It was still intact in 1822 when Mexico gained her independence. The dictator Santa Ana borrowed a portion of it with evident design."
AZR 1933
Might be worth finding the correct location.
Hal,
I'm not at home right now, but I believe it was the King of Spain who took over the administration of the Pious Fund when he expelled the Jesuits. The practical running of the fund in Mexico was given to the Franciscans and the Dominicans. I could, of course, be wrong.
Good luck,
Joe
Its one source and you could easily be correct.
Still, if a mission is ever found in or around the Superstitions its omission from the known maps will have to be explained.
Seems logical that it would have been built with money from this Pious Fund.
More of a mystery if it wasn't.
Most of what we write about here is speculative.
Which is why clarity is greatly appreciated.
Its obvious that Frank is not standing at the same site.
Frank is at the correct site, just a different camera angle
The camera was facing west not north like the old photo. I was at the correct site Tom K escorted me to the location
The camera was facing west not north like the old photo. I was at the correct site Tom K escorted me to the location