Homar,
I believe Chuck Kenworthy is just such a case. He made his money in the movies and then in real estate. Despite his claims, I don't believe there is any documentation that he ever made a dime from found treasure........other than his books. I would like to see one "authenticated" find that was not a self generated story. Most of his claims were treasures that he could not recover for one reason or another.
It's more than possible that I have just not found such evidence for his treasure "finds", so the above is just my opinion based on what I could find.
Take care,
Joe
Sorry I missed this for so long, but what would you expect from someone who finds a treasure? A newspaper article on it? While that does happen, it is more likely (and more often) the person or group that makes the find, that actually makes the fact a public knowledge. Self-publicized, so to speak. This does not make it false. In fact even a newspaper article announcing a great treasure found, is almost always only printed because the person or group who found it, personally contacted the newspaper or news media.
I see a lot of posts tossed around saying that there are few or no facts concerning the Lost Dutchman mine, not sure what the motive is on this but I see a common misperception also getting repeated too, that there is more money in selling the books about the treasure, than in finding the mine. Most treasure books are self-published, for most publishers are not interested in them at all. The reason for this is that there is a very limited market for such books, only treasure hunters and a small percentage of the public interested in it, are the whole market. Most treasure authors do not make a lot of money on their treasure books, so this idea that treasure authors are perpetuating the legend for their huge profits in book sales is completely false. There may be some treasure authors doing this very thing, thinking they will make millions on the book they write, but I ask such authors to look at any list of the best sellers for the past century, and see how many treasure books you find on it, and not counting Treasure Island which was pure fiction and presented as such.
There certainly are facts concerning the lost Dutchman's mine too; the famous match box is a fact for one, there was a real Jacob Waltz for another, his friends certainly went searching for that mine is yet another. While it may be true that a great deal of nonsense and BS has gotten blended in to the story, it is wrong to dismiss the lost mine simply because so many people have been spreading the BS for one reason or another. This does not excuse those guilty of such fabrications, and it is wise to keep in mind that many of the early treasure authors were not cross-checking the county courthouse records, they were simply repeating what information they had gathered, often by just asking people and writing down their answers. May not fit the level of scientific evidence which some folks seem to demand, but it also is not nothing either. Remember, a man may be convicted and executed on the word of two people, with little else to prove the case.
Good luck and good hunting amigos, I hope you find the treasures that you seek. Oh and if I found the LDM, you can count on me to ..................................
Oroblanco
PS if this whole Lost Dutchman mine story is BS, why do we have Dutch-hunters rendezvous each year, to get together and talk about a
non-existant mine?
