Dear Tracker1;
Where to begin my reply, my friend
Ok, I suppose that it's best to start at the beginning, as with all things:
" Many years before the Peralta's 14, 15, 1600 hundred's. Explorers brought back gold and silver treasures to Spain from the New World. Both raw and hand made items of gold and silver.
The King of Spain and the Catholic church got together and sent hundreds of army troops and priest's to the New World with orders to claim existing mines and search for new."
The plunder of New World treasures lasted for less than a generation, my friend. The very first Conquistadores brought home the riches, while the later ones had to actually work for their share of the New World riches, to include plantations, mining, etc. The King of Spain and the Roman Catholic church neve got together on anything, at any time. The King of Spain REQUESTED that The Society of Jesus send missionaries to the New World to domesticate and convert the natives. The Vatican had nothing to do with either the request or the positive response from the Jesuits.
"Starting in South America and moving North they took over all mines and collected all the treasure's they could fined killing thousands of Indians on the way. The treasure the Priests collected for the church was taken along many carts full. In "Mexico" (((Montezuma's World))), the Priest's collected just token treasures, Montezuma took thousands of his people loaded with treasure and moved north to what is now Arizona. The Priest killed the remaining Aztec's in Mexico before moving on north. Montezuma already knew of the Mountain of gold and had a dwelling there. When reaching there he buried his treasures."
The natives never mined minerals on a serious basis. The gold and silver artifacts which were plundered from the natives in fact came from placer deposits or exposed veins. Please bear in mind that the natives of the Americas were only advanced as far as the copper age, and natives further north were still in the grips of the stone age. This is why there exists so many flint arrowheads, my friend. :-) The natives that could work copper were more technologically advanced and this is plainly evidenced by their massive stone structures, however using copper tools in mining won't get a person very far,very fast. You can try this for yourself. Take a copper chiesel and a copper hammer and go to the side of a granite wall, then start trying to tunnel a 3 foot square opening into it and attempt to tunnel in 10 feet. Take note of how long it takes. :-) Oh, and you won't need a stopwatch either. A calendar is more on the order. And this is why the Spanish colonists got rich from mining in the New World, my friend. They had mastered iron working and it takes iron tools to tunnel through the hardrock formations that gold and silver like to hide in. They simply were in the right place at the right time, with the right tools and technology at hand. And because of this they earned vast sums of money for their efforts.
There exists no documentation or historical evidence that the Aztec advanced North into Arizona. You could look at pre-columbian native Americans as socities with strict boundaries. The Aztec did not control the lands to the North, therefore they would not have ventured to the North, unless they had a substantial warparty and then there would have been a huge battle, of which there should exist phyiscal evidence. No evidence exists, therefore the theory that the Aztecs secreted thier treasures in Arizona is nothing more than a mere legend with a healthy dose of speculation thrown in.
" Spanish troops and Priests came by the thousands, taking over all the mines and making slaves of as many Indians they could. "Including Montezuma and his people."
The Priest berried the church treasure in several places. The Jesuit priest had already decided they would build there own empire . so for many years after the King and Vatican only token payments, the rest was berried for there own use."
Spanish troops may have been sent over by the thousands, but they surely did not send over 1000s of priests, my friend. At the height of the Spanish colonial period, there were an estimated 1,250 European priests residing in the New World, and this includes ALL of the New World, from the tip of Argentina all the way to thw coast of California. That is a lot of territory and very few priests to cover it. Converted native Americans made up the bulk of the priesthood in Latin America during the Spanish colonial period.
"When the King realised he was not getting his fair share he sent troops to gather all the priest and send them back to Spain. some of the priests hid.But the ones sent back were all killed.
The remaining Priests continued working the mines for many years."
You must be referring to the Jesuit expulsion of 1767, my friend. Yes, the Jeusits were sent back to Europe, but not a single Jesuit was executed. And also, every European Jesuit priest who had been sent to the New World colonies was accounted for at the time of their expulsion. To conclude, all European Jesuits priests were accounted for and all were returned to the Vatican States, unharmed. There does not exist a single account of a Jesuit priest ever working a mine in the New World, my friend.
"When the Priests got word of the U.S, Cavalry coming thy buried all the mines.... Over the next few years the Cavalry rounded up the remaining Indians and Priests, sending them to San Carlos Reservation. The priests all died there, over the following years."
First, a mine is just a hole and how does one bury a hole in the ground
It would seem to me that the more a person dug, the larger the hole would grow, thus making the burial of the hole impossible. And, if someone filled a mine in, then there would undoubtedly be evidence of the diggings in the tailling piles. After all, the rock and soil which was removed from the mine shafts had to go SOMEWHERE! The miners didn't simply eat it. So where at the tailling piles? To have mined on the scale which you are implying, the mining operations would have needed to been substantial and if they were substantial then the tailling piles would also have been substantial, my friend. And if the priests all died in San Carlos, where is their burial record?
Your friend;
LAMAR
