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SDCFIA,
I agree with you in part. Traditionally, dore bars are thought of as mostly gold or silver. As you said, typically 50% - 90% pure. Many of the people I know use the term dore for any unrefined bar of metal.
Lots of peripheral info that says the bar that was assayed is not representative of all the bars in VP (or Caballos). Tony Jolley could not have bought a ranch and left his son the money he did with ten bars like the one assayed. There are also several people that gave testimonials after Doc was murdered as to EXACTLY what the bars they got from Doc were. GOLD.
Mike
The assay you posted appears in The Gold House Book 1 - the H&H report dated 2/4/1939. Another assay was completed two weeks later (2/18/1939). The second assay showed essentially the same values as the first. Good ore, but only about $100 gold value in the 40-pound ingots (at 35$/oz gold). They were copper bars with three ounces of contained gold.
From what John Clarence has provided, it does seem that these values were representative of the bars Noss had - bars I suspect came from the Caballos. Hearsay aside (possibly from duped bullion buyers not wanting to admit they had been swindled?), there is no hard evidence that proves Noss possessed "gold bars". As I mentioned earlier, these assay reports are strong circumstantial evidence explaining why the Feds never busted Noss for possessing gold bullion and why he was often accused of selling "fake gold bars". In addition, it offers an explanation why Douthit lived fairly frugally when he arrived in CA and why he needed to return to NM so often - the bars he and Doc had access to had value, but not great value.
As far as Jolley is concerned, I agree he helped Noss bury quite a number of these bars the night before Doc was killed, and then came back years later to retrieve some of them. He probably thought they were "gold bars", just like Charley Ryan did. Now we have a sensible explanation why Doc wanted to back out of the Ryan deal - his bars were mostly copper, not gold. Ryan wasn't having any more of Noss's BS and we know what happened. I do believe that Jolley hauled off some valuable metal which he undoubtedly sold, as he says he did. However, "Buying a ranch" can range anywhere from the Ponderosa to ten acres in the desert.
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Listen carefully to what Jolley says ...
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Jolley said that Doc had shown Ryan where 51 of the bars were hidden. Ryan said he would pay Doc after he took possession of the bars, but Doc heard <cut>
Here is what Doc told both Tony Jolley and Ova:
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Several people got solid gold bars from Doc. Sheriff Wesley White of Sonora, Texas loaned Doc a large chunk of cash and was repaid with a bar of solid gold.
SDCFIA, your claims just keep getting shot down.
Mike
Round and round we go. Its so odd how some feel their repeating of unsupported hearsay is in some way more valid than when they claim others are doing so. If you ask others for proof to support their position, where is the proof you have to support your position? If you want to cling to the idea Noss was a con man and was killed for it by Ryan, you will need a lot more than an assay report from a dore bar Noss supposedly owned. A very rational explanation has been offered to explain why he had fake bars, but its rejected as if just engaging in that rejection represents evidence of some kind. Hold yourself to the same standards of proof you seek to hold others.
<img src="http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1123964"/> see this ? it's a valid artifact , can I prove it ? Nope , it was confiscated . am I conning you ? nope . just that simple , if Doc had valid bars , Secret service agent Hirst would have bagged them up for the Gov.t . think not ? fine , all it would take for anyone to know for sure , is find a valid treasure . You'll get the answer fast . I did .