Ellie Baba said:
The 1900 topo you are referring to was designed to be used with the "Peralta Stone Maps". The stone house is depicted on the map, but the coke ovens are not. There is a reason for this discrepancy. Any other nonessential information was not used as this particular map was designed as a base depository area. If one were to order the 1900 Florence topo you have mentioned they would receive the 1901 revision. The original 1900 has some design flaws that were designed into it on purpose. The 1901 map was a corrected version. There are four other maps that must be used to help interpret the Stone Maps as we found out the hard way. After all was said and done we realized you had to follow the Stone Maps directions and study the hearts and study the maps to solve the puzzle. After all of these years we learned to follow the clues laid out on the ground depicted by the Stone Maps(and I mean years). You have to be very careful as the maps were made to take you on a wild goose chase. Once you have located the area to use the maps they will make perfect sense. Now you can start counting the years. The actual directions to the caches have to be solved in the field by relying on the large shadow monuments. These clues can only be observed twice a year. As I said in another post; you must document your work or it is all in vain.
I use to live in Alaska and I finally decided it was a nice place to visit and I hated the Alaskan State Bird, the mosquito.
Loved the Northern Lights and the bush,
EB
Hi Ellie Baba,
Thanks for the comments. I have not done much analysis of the Stone Maps, but have read several books about them and various interpretations. Interesting reading, but I have found no one or a published source that logically explains how to decipher the symbols and leads to a mine or treasure. Are we sure they are not forgeries and if not, are we sure they lead us to mines or treasure of some kind? Amy Mosier in her book
Treasure Maps of the Superstitions published in 2002 claims that a mentor she calls "the Tin Man" explained to her how to interpret the Stone Maps but does not tell us the details, only bits and pieces to keep the reader engaged. Her book has lots of symbols and photos, but not enough explanation and analysis to suit me. She does discuss a book by Charles A. Kenworthy and includes a copy of what she claims is a copy of Kenworthy's mining claims in LaBarge Canyon: Quo Vadis I through VII. I comment on Kenworthy's book in the next paragraph and have to wonder why Kenworthy did not include that mineral claim information in his own book published in 1997.
One of the most interesting books I have read recently was not about the Stone Maps.
Treasure Secrets of the Lost Dutchman by Charles A. Kenworthy, 1997 included verifiable evidence of his success and conclusions, although some of his analysis is still unconvincing to me mainly because I have no first hand knowledge of Spanish/Mexican/Jesuit or other protocols for making maps, using symbols, and their interpretations. Nevertheless, there is some logic in his methods that I can accept. He provides the locations of key terrain features and the actual location of the LDM (his opinion, no verifiable proof) according to the known clues we all have read about. My trip in 2007 was an effort to verify some of Kenworthy's observations and findings by doing an on site survey. I attempted to contact Kenworthy through his publisher a few years ago and was saddened to hear that he had passed away. If any of the Forum members have read this Kenworthy book, I would be interested in your comments. I'll start a new thread on this book and see if I get any responses.
I sure appreciate the several postings about Alaska - The Great Land. Yep, it gets cold, dark for a while, the bears are BIG, and the mosquitoes are like incoming missiles at times. But we do not have poison ivy, snakes, scorpions, or poisonous spiders. I guess every place has a trade off. We love it here. Fishing, trips to the Bush, the Iditarod, and Northern Lights are just a few of the attractions. So far this Fall, we have had no snow and temps have been around 35 F during the day. Sounds better than many places in "the Lower 48" to me.
There I go again. Sorry for the rambling...
Bill
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