Oldergoate, I have to respectfully disagree. The photo I posted is not the best, it tends to lend a slight reddish cast to the matchbox which is not present. ]
This photo of the cover of Helen Corbin's book shows the colors more true. I would not call this a rose quartz.
The reason I asked where this rose quartz description of Waltz's ore came from is the older sources all call it a white quartz. Likewise, the story of the Doc Thorne vein is a white quartz vein.
<Before someone notifies me that Thorne only saw a pile of gold on the ground and no vein, ask your self this, why then would he have bothered to try to find that place again, if that version is the truth?>
There are other dis-similarities between the Wagoner ledge and the Dutchman too, like the importance of Miners Needle to Wagoner. You can not see Miners Needle from the routes taken by Waltz on his trips we know of, and he went well past it. Wagoner also found the ledge un-concealed and never mentioned any trace of anyone having ever mined it before his finding it, which would be odd as most versions of the Dutchman have the mine already existing before he ever lays eyes on it.
The differences stand out to me, but that is just my opinion. I believe there are at least three and possibly four different gold deposits in the area, all of which are or were rich, and all slightly different. I think this helps keep the mines lost too, for the many different "clues" may well apply to one of the four but not to any of the others, and the "clues" have gotten very well mixed by this point in time. Also, I don't think Barry Storm ever interviewed Julia Thomas, and may not have talked to Reiney for that matter.
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