What about me?
Joe, I consider Matthew a friend. I offered my hand in friendship, he took it, and I am not one to easily dissolve a friendship. With that said, I was not around when all this happened and was not hurt by him or the things that passed thru his, Helen's, and the publishers hands. If I were, I certainly would not use TNet as a means to hound or malign a one time friend. I might work to correct posted errors, intentional or not, but that is where it would end, publicly.
Regarding Peter, I don't know the man. I also don't see where there are people attacking you and I have not been contacted in anyway by anyone on Matthew's behalf. I am also not looking to pull you into an argument or to embarrass you among your circle of friends. I have legitimate questions about the document in Helen's book because of the confusion it caused. You were effected by it and I should think that you would want to know what it is that we are looking at. You obviously don't as you now have shared. I don't know either and Helen is not with us to ask so, that leaves the publisher.
I don't know Tom or Bob and have no reason to question their "honesty". I will say that I have found several errors in Tom's work but, since he is repeating (preserving) narratives as they come to him, errors have to be expected. Corrections should also be expected, if not appreciated.
Hal,
You don't know the personal history involved here. That's to be understood. Nothing wrong with sticking with/by your friends.
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cactusjumper 
Roy,
It's been said here that Dutchman ore has never been offered for sale and never will be. That may be so, but ore purporting to be from Waltz's mine (box under his bed) has been offered for sale. A necklace said to be made with nuggets from the LDM, and with a good source as it's owner, was offered to me. I have it in writing, and believe the price was $25,000. I would have to look up the letter to confirm that price.
Yet ANOTHER misleading statement. Since several people were known to have possession of Dutchman ore, (gold ore which came from beneath Jacob Waltz's bed when he died), no one person can speak for ALL that ore.
In the context which that statement was made, we were talking
specifically of the part of that ore that the "Ring" was made from and only that part of the ore.
The "necklace ore" owned by a lady near Young Arizona, I believe to be authentic Dutchman ore which came from the gold ore James Douglas bought from the Goldman's after they acquired it from Dick Holmes.
That is just my personal opinion.
Matthew K. Roberts
Kraig,
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If the statement I made was "misleading", at least it was not a lie. It was also not purposely misleading, as many people do on forums like this.
The accounts of my own involvement in searching for treasure in the Superstition Mountains and my personal history, back to when I was 13-years old is all true. I did serve in Viet Nam for 1-year. There are some things you just don't lie about, and that is especially true with people you profess to be friends with.
I have often mentioned your name in my posts. Some of them good, some not so much. I was ready to leave this all behind me until you posted your crap over on DUSA.....without the backbone to call me by name, same as here. If you want to keep the fire burning, I will post every bit of evidence about you over on the First Amendment Forum.
It's all the same stuff I sent to you and asked you for an explanation. All of it comes from public records. As I told you, I did not want to believe it at first.
I looked for other explanations. None are out there, and none are forthcoming from you.
I would prefer to just let it rest. You don't need to correct every post of mine, and I don't need to correct yours either.
Joe Ribaudo
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That probably says it all, maybe too much.
Good luck,
Joe Ribaudo
