Just to be clear here, I did not state that the father Charles La Rue in France circa 1687-1712 IS the same one associated with the lost La Rue mine and treasure, I merely asked if it were possible. The dates would be wrong and it appears that Charles La Rue spent his career in France; however there are still other La Rue's, and the French connection would be the correct route to investigate. The point was that there IS an historical father La Rue, though a Jesuit which raises yet more questions.
One other version of the story has it that the padre's name was La CRUZ and not La Rue, as a side point.
lA rUE IS MY fORTE'
SO i'LL HELP HERE
lA RUE AS STATED MEANS THE STRETT
MANY ORPHANED STREET KIDS IN FRANCE WERE TAKEN TO CONVENTS
IF THEY DID NOT KNOW THEIR NAMES
THEY WERE GIVEN THE lA rUE ( THE STREET ) NAME .
THERE WRE THOUSANDS OF PRIEST PADRES
PIMPS OF THEW CHURCH BY THAT NAME
lA rUE OF THE oRGAN mOUNTAINS WAS pHILLIPE lA rUE
HE WAS ACTIVE IN THE oRGANS FROM 1797 UNTIL HIS MURDER IN 1813 AT THE VAVE NEAR dRIPPING SPRINGS
( AND MY PC SUFFERS CAPS LOCK SYNDROMN , SORRY )
he was buried right out in front of the cave on your left as you enter Dripping Springs,,, buried head down toward hell by his Tormentor garcia I believ was the name of the capt that killed him .
His bars did not have La Rue enscribed on them
His Bars have a strike Mark and thats all .
he had a stone cabin by mine house spring ( not the mine house which stands there today )
He had a cave on the south wall of Filmore canyon
In Soledad he had another Cave on the ridge straight out from Issachs Cabin
and In Rucker Canyon there is a Dug out under a huge Boulder that was also used by him on that side when he visited his men and the mines there
To the north of pine spring is where that cave is .
To my Knowledge
His caches , of one I know to have been pilfered
perhaps another I found pilfered was his as well .
His roam was in the Organs and not elsewhere .
Father Kino lost one of his bells that was swent from Arizona to Santa Fe , it was found grading a road on white sands soem decades ago
as for4 Kino himself visiting the area of Southern New mexico , I cannot say that actually happened .
supposedly other Kino artifacts wer found at Victorio peak
like a Gold Cross
but the Noss group are well known to manufacture evidence and running scams just as Doc did
so that's out as a valid artifact from the peak .
Noss bars with la rue engraved are fake La Rue Bars.
an no excuse for that am I convinced with .
he was a scam artist
as for saving Willie
I doubt that even more .
as for all the Ova and Letha stories
I know for a fact that they both told many lies .
strange thing about some people in that area
they seem to suffer a very special mental disorder that I have
incounted no where else
they believe their own lies
and imaginations run way too wild .
that is just some people there
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