grizzly bare
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Re: GA gold "Waterhouse treasure" possibly on "Rocky Face" mountain.
Amigos, This thread is starting to get awful contentious. Can we go back to the original question of gold on Rocky Face? I(grizzly bare) am a believer in the Waterhose treasure for a couple of reasons. The most important is that I personally tracked down two descendants of the folks who actually walked in the cavern and saw the gold. (Okay, they didn't actually see the gold. What they saw was a stack of copper bars. They took 8 of the smallest bars out of the cavern. That evening they struck one of the bars with a knife and 'skinned' the copper off and revealed the gold underneath. True, no one tried this on the 4200lb. bars in the cavern:they could all be solid copper)
Each family had old journals/letters detailing the find. Yet the two journals differed GREATLY in how to get the last 1/2 mile to the cave entrance. In letters Walter Mullins wrote to his younger brother many years after the find, he talked about an argument the 7 men had when they went back to Rocky Face the second day. One group wanted to go one direction, the rest wanted to go an oposite direction. The party divided and neither group could re-find the cavern. Bill Waterhouse spent 20 years and most of his family's money searching for the treasure. It seems odd to me that a man would lose his family, his own money, and his mom and dad's money if he had not seen something. I can't speak about the other five men, but Waterhouse and Mullins BELIEVED that they had found, and lost, a great treasure.
Amigos, This thread is starting to get awful contentious. Can we go back to the original question of gold on Rocky Face? I(grizzly bare) am a believer in the Waterhose treasure for a couple of reasons. The most important is that I personally tracked down two descendants of the folks who actually walked in the cavern and saw the gold. (Okay, they didn't actually see the gold. What they saw was a stack of copper bars. They took 8 of the smallest bars out of the cavern. That evening they struck one of the bars with a knife and 'skinned' the copper off and revealed the gold underneath. True, no one tried this on the 4200lb. bars in the cavern:they could all be solid copper)
Each family had old journals/letters detailing the find. Yet the two journals differed GREATLY in how to get the last 1/2 mile to the cave entrance. In letters Walter Mullins wrote to his younger brother many years after the find, he talked about an argument the 7 men had when they went back to Rocky Face the second day. One group wanted to go one direction, the rest wanted to go an oposite direction. The party divided and neither group could re-find the cavern. Bill Waterhouse spent 20 years and most of his family's money searching for the treasure. It seems odd to me that a man would lose his family, his own money, and his mom and dad's money if he had not seen something. I can't speak about the other five men, but Waterhouse and Mullins BELIEVED that they had found, and lost, a great treasure.