Loke said:
@Elle Baba,
Sorry, but I am not familiar with your 'Rose Interpretation'. Obviously it has to do with recognizing certain features from an IR-photo, but other than that I am completely blank. Tried to google for it as well - but short of trying to go through 5000-odd hits was just a tad too much.
Could you please explain it to me?
Per
Jim Rose was one of NASA's pioneers when IR imagery was in its infancy. Jim Rose later became a very successful oil and gas geologist and later became involved in precious metals exploration using IR imagery to verify fault and vein systems. He also used IR Imagery to locate a number of Mayan cities hidden in the jungles of Brazil and Belize for the University of Florida.
The site was first discovered in the late 1960’s or mid 1970’s and at the time no one had any idea what the site (I will need to find Walter’s original claim papers) really represented. Walter had recently read about the Peralta Stone Maps in the 1964 issue of Life Magazine and soon his curiosity got the better of him and he started asking folks about that darned heart.
Joe, do you remember the old Mom and Pop Antique Store located north and west of Florence Junction befor they built the bypass? The old timers would sit on the front porch playing checkers and telling old legends about lost gold and buried treasure. I wish that I would have spent some time just listening to them. They always teased us about finding the Dutchman's gold and for a few bucks they would tell us where it was hid!
Eventually Walter Stobbe discovered the site after asking a number of old prospectors if they had ever found or had heard about a heart in the desert. One of the old timers spoke up and said that he had never seen one…, but actually had found three! The old timer explained that Walter would have to grab his camping gear and go into the desert, to a specific area and wait for a good thunderstorm to roll through and drench the area. A day or two later a pair of bright green hearts magically appeared where none had existed before just as the old timer had explained. It was later verified by a botanist that the grass was some type of a variety of Canadian Rye. It had been planted long ago within the borders of the hearts and had never been able to reproduce outside of the borders of the hearts. No one has ever been able to see the hearts until a good rain has passed over the area and one can see them from 14 miles away.
Back to Jim Rose: We had located his website online and had read his resume. We knew he was our man. We contacted him and explained that we would like to have an IR Interpretation performed to determine if the area may contain precious metals. We told him this site covered an area of over ten square miles. Jim told us his price and we sent him a wire straight to his account in Dallas, TX.
About three days later after midnight my phone was ringing off the hook. I picked up the receiver and said hell-o. All of a sudden Jim was ranting and raving asking me what the hell was going on and what kind of a trick was I playing on him as he had done hundreds of IR Interpretations and had never seen anything like this before. I told him that we were sorry about not putting all of our cards on the table.
To make a long story short Jim Rose became a partner and worked with us for a number of years until cancer took him away from us, he was 81 when he passed about three years ago. He was a genius, a graduate of Texas A & M I believe. I will post his resume one of these days.
We miss him dearly; which reminds me of a story that took place a few years back. Jim usually drove his Ford Explorer when we ventured into the desert. This one evening we were in his Lincoln Town Car driving down a dirt road heading for the diversion dam located east of Florence on the Gila (heel-ah) River. We had decided to check out an outcropping that could tell us about the geology relating to precious metals, we were looking for clues. This was later in the evening and we could hardly see it was so dang dark. We had just eaten at the L & B Mexican Restaurant and I drank at least four or five glasses of iced tea. I told my son that I had to take a leak and walked behind the Lincoln and did my thing. I could see Jim due to the lights coming from Florence. Jim was about fifty, sixty feet away looking at his samples and mumbling to himself. My boy and I were remarking to one another how bright the stars were in God’s heavens. It wasn’t long and all of a sudden we heard Jim state that he just could not understand why these two rocks he was examining were wet and still dripping with water. My son cried out that I had just taken a leak in the area where he was standing. He looked at us through his coke bottled glasses (that made his eyes look bigger due to the magnification) and he told us that he was just getting ready to lick those rocks and we all fell to the ground as we were laughing so hard. He was always upbeat, funny and gettin’ after it, and he loved working with Mother Nature.
It was about this time that we realized that the Peralta Stone Maps were connected to the area. We had found a number of horses located on the site north of the river all of them within a mile of each other. The horse pastured on the north side of the river just like the stone tablets had indicated; one on the Finger of God, one was placed on the hill side and the other was found on the ground located by IR.
There are more stories concerning Jim Rose relating to a number of discoveries he had made and how he solved some secrets related to the site and the Stone Maps.
Time to get to bed!
Ellie B
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