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cactusjumper I will continue now, hardy founded hardyville az in 1864,hardy started a ferry crossing, and a toll road to prescott az,he owned a hotel,freight warehouse,store,a mill for stamping ore ,plus had a steamboat landing .and was very much into mining,he also owned a store in prescott,he was also in the territorial legislature for several terms, while at his store in hardyville, a group of mexican prospectors came to buy supplies,and ask directions,and wanted to cross the river on the ferry.business went on as usual for a couple months,then on one of the ferry crossings one of the mexican prospectors was found in bad shape,hardy took him back across the river and took care of him,while recovering after a week or so ,he told hardy that they were looking for a rich mine the spanish had been working and several of the spanish miners were killed,and the roof of the mine had fallen and killed a couple more,the spanish miners thought it was cursed,so they left and never returned.eventually there was a map handed down through this mexicans family and they decided to go look for it,after several weeks they found it .they moved a lot of dirt and rock,they found several spanish miners remains and buried them,he told hardy once they had cleared the mine they found stacks of gold rich quartz piled up in the mine,but every day they were there, something was not right,and there was strange noises, and at night they could even see things,eventually , his fellow miners all died mysteriously.he told hardy he was just glad to be alive.he had no intentions of ever going back ,and he gave the map to hardy, but warned him not to go there. a few days later the man returned back home,hardy never heard from him again.hardy sent a couple people to look for it, later they were found dead of natural causes on a trail,on one of his trips to prescott he had talked to a miner he knew from california about looking for this mine and wanted to know if he was interested,the miner from prescott came to hardyville and met with hardy,they worked out the details,and hardy sent another person with him.with some pack animals,it was winter so it was the best time to go.about six weeks later the man that hardy sent ,came back alone,told hardy they found the mine and several dead mexican's remains, he said it was a bad area ,he said that what hardy had told them about the mine was true,he said they loaded up what they could carry back on to the pack animals,but they hardly made a differance in what was stacked up,after they left the mine he was in the lead, and the other guy was following with the pack animals. it began to snow,after a couple miles he stopped,waited for the other guy to catch up,but he never did.he back tracked trying to find him, but it started snowing heavy,he give up hunting for the man ,and made his way back to hardy to tell him what happened.hardy and some other guys searched for the man ,but hardy didnt want anyone else to know were the mine was so he kept the men away from were the mine was ,as far as the men knew they were just looking for a lost prospector. after several months hardy and another person made the decisionto go to the mine ,they didnt take but one pack animal,after a week or so they reached the mine,they figured since they only took one pack animal,they would bust what gold they could out of the quartz to be able to carry more gold,he said it was the worst place for a mine he had ever seen,and also remarked about how much tailings there were,he said he would never go back ,the place was just like hell.after that he never did go back ,and more than likely destroyed the map, there's been several stories written about this in the early 1900,s my question is what or where did the man from prescott go with the gold? np
ps. this is the story that i was following when i started noticing markers that related to the stone tablets.
ps. this is the story that i was following when i started noticing markers that related to the stone tablets.
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