bigscoop
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- Older blue Excal with full mods, Equinox 800.
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There are still those who believe in the story is true as it is told, that a party of 30 adventurers roamed about the wilds of the west until they happened to stumbled upon a natural source of gold and silver of extremely high grade. I'm not sure why people still wish to believe in this fairy tale portion of the story as science and history and chemistry pretty much erases any possible chance that these men mined and refined gold and silver from the alleged Colorado territories, this being especially true in the comparatively short amount of time offered in the tale.
Jewels. Interesting here that a "precious stone" doesn't become a "jewel" until after it is cut. This term used by the author of the ciphers quickly putting to rest any debates that the alleged "jewels" were possibly in the form of rough stones. So if silver was traded "jewels" in St. Louis then these stones would represent cut precious stones. And since, from all that I have researched, there was nobody in St. Louis at the time with the ability to cut precious stones then only two possibilities can remain. The first being that the jewels were shipped to a St. Louis interest from another location, or, the stones were in the form of smuggled contraband.
You see, science and history pretty much eliminates all chance that the adventure portion of the Beale story is true. And the term "jewels" pretty much assures that these stones did not originate from the region. So if the two deposits were real then where else might they have originated?
Jewels. Interesting here that a "precious stone" doesn't become a "jewel" until after it is cut. This term used by the author of the ciphers quickly putting to rest any debates that the alleged "jewels" were possibly in the form of rough stones. So if silver was traded "jewels" in St. Louis then these stones would represent cut precious stones. And since, from all that I have researched, there was nobody in St. Louis at the time with the ability to cut precious stones then only two possibilities can remain. The first being that the jewels were shipped to a St. Louis interest from another location, or, the stones were in the form of smuggled contraband.
You see, science and history pretty much eliminates all chance that the adventure portion of the Beale story is true. And the term "jewels" pretty much assures that these stones did not originate from the region. So if the two deposits were real then where else might they have originated?
