markmar
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Interesting story, thanks for posting it.
Strange how it talks about the Apaches spending a winter to collapse a mountainside over the mine, yet Waltz said when he first came upon the mine years later, Mexicans came out of the shaft. So the mine wasn't covered then. For this to happen, the Mexicans must have cleared the landslide away. A half dozen men with only hand tools? I have my doubts about the Apache landslide story.
Another red flag for me is the story of how the wife's great uncle just happened to be Waltz's partner. And unknown to the family for half a century are letters written by him that provide secret clues to the mine. The only clue they're willing to part with is the revelation that the landmark peak is Weaver's Needle, not Sombrero Butte, like everyone believes (so they claim). Funny how 36 years earlier in 1895, P.C. Bicknell's widely circulated article identified Weaver's Needle as the landmark peak. So I have my doubts about this story, too.
It sure would be nice to know where that "Yellow Medicine spring" is. If anyone has any info on that please post it! The location of a spring full of arsenic should be common knowledge to all who enter those hills.
I believe the Weiser story of being relative with Mrs Howland is somehow true , because the Howlands said after reading Wiser's letters , they found some remarcable clues to the " Teuton's " mine . These clues are related direct to your question about the Yellow Medicine Spring , which is close to the mine . Don't forget they said found there a corral , clue which fit with the region of the two room house across the mine .
If you ever will can to decrypt and found where the Latin stone heart map lies , then for sure you will know where the Yellow spring is , because is written on the map in Latin .