Amy luv, there is no need to appologize for something that is not your fault - the newspaper reproduction for the files, their files, is horrible
The Quintera mines Here in Alamos were in production at that time. The owner, Chato Almada, was a French sympathizer and was eventually executed while fleeing. before his execution, he had stocked a cave up in the mt with enough rifles and equipment etc, to equip a company of French sympathizers, I have a general knowledge ot the location of ths cave. Long story here, but very interesting.
Chato & the Quintera mine are famous for his laying a path of silver bars from his home in front of the Church, to the Chursh because a rainstorm haad muddied the street so she could'nt walk to the Church without soiling her wedding gown.
I also have some of her wedding gift of dishes from Le Moine, France, with her name in the porcelin.
The quntera mine is the only mine capable of poducing that amount of silver, but it's production is accounted for.The only conclusion that I can come to is Yes, that was from one of theTayopa mines.
The main depository is still intact since a Jesuit priest was actively looking for something in the area around the turn of the centuy, an area devoid of any Population, when he fell to his death from the Hill of the Cura and no activity has been handed down on a salvage - ex 1500 bars of silver, 650 mule loads of Gold+, etc..- that amount of acivity would certainly have been noticed, so I have reason to believe that it stil intact., and not the bars that were discovered..
The French were involved in Mexico for only a limited time, so they must have taken the maps from the Vatican and gone almost directly to the complex -- and never returned them. Where are they today
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It is beginning to look as if you have found some of the elusive data on Tayopa, I wish that it could have been followed up. sigh.
( I wasnt referring to you, you have done a wonderful job)
