SINCE YOU ASKED - COLORADO LEADS

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

GUNNISON RIVER ... a Crawford man found nearly four gallons of silver dimes here. A mint wagon was carrying 24 bags of dimes to Phoenix and disappeared. Perhaps this relates. source PAGE 43, KEGS OF DIMES IN THE BLACK CANYON OF THE GUNNISON BY R.H. JONES, TRUE WEST, MAY-JUNE 1978
GRAND COUNTY - LULU CITY ... ON 4 JULY 1883 a county seat war killed off four people. Two were killed, two were dying and the sheriff committed suicide. None lived in that town but all lived in the county. source PAGE 30, UNIQUE GHOST TOWNS AND MOUNTAIN SPOTS BY CAROLINE BANCROFT AND DANIEL K. PETERSON (1967)

 

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[Wild Boulder Bill]

SS
I know a little bit more about the dimes that might interest you. There actually were two men who found the dimes. One of them was one of the greatest treasure hunters to ever live in the southwestern united states. I've actually read that that was ten kegs of dimes leaving the Denver mint. I cannot give you a confidence factor on this. I can give you a hundred percent confidence factor on the finding of the dimes. I can tell you mister x was up there for a reason. He wasn't up there hunting and accidentally ran across them.(as so Many of our Colorado treasure tales go). He went back years later to find the rest and it was on a ranch and marked private property. People wonder about why he waited to go back. I can assure you that this was small potatoes to mister x. The most reliable treasure tales in Colorado is in Sydney Moons book " Lost treasures of Colorado." The forest service here has tore down many saloons and put campgrounds on many ghost towns. Even though under the homestead act that was current then this would be private property and should have been sold as delinquent tax land. They put the wilderness areas right in the middle of our comb belt ( I don't believe by any accident) so in my opinion anybody that takes something when no one is watching is nothing but a thief. In my book the worst thief is one that steals the heritage of a state. So though I have no love for the forest service some finds are too big to be hidden no matter what. Which always makes me suspicious of these amazing finds nobody knows about. My crystal ball tells me that in June or July (depending on snow cover) one of Sydney moons lost treasures will be found.

Good Huntin
Wild Boulder

P.S. if you think the dimes are something you should have seen what Mister x was working on when he died.

 

[Siegfried Schlagrule]

Thanks for the update Bill. Looks like I was right when I guessed that they were related. You must be talking about the metrotech man who died in a fire. exanimo, ss