Eldo,
Interesting find. Went to check it out on GE and you are saying that the GE image showing the tent canopy is from 2020, but it is actually from 1/2018 according to Google. It does seem to be the most recent image of that area though.
I went back in time to see if it was available to see when the things you are calling tanks might have showed up. They appear to have been there as far back as GE shows . . . 2004 at least. (prior to 2004, there is not enough detail to easily discern if they were there or not).
How did you come upon this if you don't mind me asking?
Idahodutch
Thanks for looking into it....it's a real site and has a lot of history to it. There was a crew that filed years ago for the claim of that specific mine series....but got stopped mining during the ban on mining of the Supes....
So I know that the wagons are older than that because of their design, but it also seems that someone may have been up there picking during the 50s or 60s when this claim was filed with their State Mining and Mineral Dept.
As far as how I found it....this was one of three locations that I found when I first joined TNet.
I literally came onboard here, looked at the Lost Dutchman's section, filed through a few bigger posts with maps and then cross referenced them to the other sites that had stories, to lock in a common theme that all of them had, being the majority of the stories of Jacob Waltz and of the 30 men found there at Massacre Grounds and tracked them back through a trail to a base point, which also crossed over from the trail that Waltz had to have taken from Ft McDowell...the two paths crossed and I figured that would be the approximate area that both were using along the same trail.
From there I used basic logic to find a canyon that he could have taken and looked for clues on the Google Earth images that were posted to see if landmarks matched.....I also made sure to use the Peralta Stones to confirm the movements and find general locations of landmarks to look for.
All in all it took me 35 minutes to walk the line to the first locations.....like a Boss !!
Here's one that amazed me as to the encrypted detail of it's legend......You have to look through the EYE of the needle....an EYE is horizontal, not vertical like Weaver's Needle was
Really sucked when they removed all the pics that Art Brown took as he moved through almost every location in the area documenting the clues without even knowing their meaning.
Here is the area where the base entrance to the hike up was seen to take, around the location where Waltz had mentioned the rockfall changing the area's look, and sitting on top of that ridge is the Eye of the Needle.
Also to note that I had not made the connection to the Beale until I later wanted to make a page on the Peralta Stones, showing their meaning specifically as it related to the terrain.
There were a few markings that were made on the stones that could not be found in AZ.
They were markings made that showed that they used the Peralta Stones to coordinate the burial of their stash in VA using similar looking locations, and they made the Latin Heart as an interchangeable stone to be switched out in VA to coordinate the final steps of their movements to the caches
Although this was discovered by me some months later when I nailed in the locations of the Beale, I still hold the title to the discovery of the Lost Dutchman in an amazing time. Something I am very proud of that encouraged me to continue working in these fields of study, and expanding my resume with one of the best content filled documentaries ever.
Not only do you get the Lost Dutchman, but the 17 other mines of their Perilous Enterprise AND the locations of the Beale in VA, regardless of their status of being empty or not.....it's still one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th and 21st Centuries and it came from dedicated research without just stumbling onto some bones in the outback of the desert.
I am also very familiar with the areas in the Supes having lived in the valley for years and made the effort to explore those areas before, so I know the terrain well.
I went tubing before on the Rio Salado near the base of the climb up, and as a kid my Aunt and Uncle once took us to Goldfield Ghost Town for an evening, so we naturally knew that area was used before for extensive mining operations.
Not like it's a big secret.....I came here to enjoy the thought of "becoming a Treasure Hunter" and voila ....... it happened to be really easy for me to interpret the umpteen maps and other stories about descriptions.
I know that I will never be able to mine the area so I figured that I would share the locations with the rest of the people here as they did a lot of the leg work and to save people from wandering and wasting money, I figured start up a sort of word of mouth tour there.
I want to go to a Lost Dutchman Rendezvous at some point and lead a hike there....maybe this year it will happen, but I would REALLY like to make a show about it all.