Also, the two soldiers described going through a cave or hole between two peaks on the trail before they found the mine. This sounds like Waltz's description of there being a "trick" to finding the mine, and that you had to go through a hole to get to it. Now, from the junction of the Salt and Verde Rivers, the camp being on the northeast junction, which way would "up the Salt" be? Later, as he describes being taken to the mine by the indians, he says that on the way back to where they had left the horses, they didn't blindfold him right away, and that "we walked through a hole or cave" and that it had a lot of old Mexican mining tools in it, and that horses could not go through. He replied by pointing up the Salt River. After observing small parties of indians bringing in quantities of gold, he asked one of the chiefs where they got the gold.
Thorne says he was taken to an Apache village at the junction of the Salt and Verde Rivers. Thorne, the story seems to give several use clues to directions and locations. Now, is it conceivable that there were several pit mines in the Superstitions that were worked by Peralta, and that the stories that refer to only one pit are about a different mine, or that (less plausible) the pits were far enough apart that some finders never saw the second one? Then, under Tom Weedin And The Walker Map, Weiser tells Doctor Walker that the mine has a "tunnel and two pits". I think you and I corresponded on the subject of two pits versus one pit awhile back. Second, under the title Monumented Trail And Cut Timber, there is a statement that Helena and Rhiney told Bark that there were two pits at the mine about 75 feet deep and a like distance across the top. Is the location of the board house known, and is the location of the trail Waltz was talking about known today? When he gets to the part where Waltz is going to take them to the mine, but says he can only go as far as the board house because of his health, he says he thinks he can show them the trail over the mountain looking from the house. First is Rhiney's relating of the Waltz story to Bark. I came across a few things I'd like to ask about. Since I'm being a "watcher" here at the library (that is, I'm assigned to watch contractors working in the stacks, so they don't steal any books (ha-ha)), I have plenty of time to sit and read. I am currently engaged in going over the Bark Notes you sent me and making notations of things of interest.
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