The Right Stuff...

 

I just felt like rambling this morning so please forgive me and if YOU TAKE offense, it isn't intended and should you CHOOSE to do so, please... just put it back as it wasn't yours to take... ;-)

I am looking for JUST one or two individuals with the right stuff... for the Project below... first published Novermber 16^th 2022.

The Right Stuff:

• Financially stable, Able to financially support your own efforts, take care of your family FIRST! … thought I'd put that one right up front... In addition....

• Able to Invest at least $5000 as I am not giving these things away any longer only to find the intended party does not have what it takes.... this will also give the interested party a sense of ownership in the project and motive to stick with the project, the number should be in reality much higher... and let's be honest here... I just need the damned money, my efforts to avoid this by doing my best to work my job just isn't working out... You could not compensate me enough for what I have put into this one as well as others... but I didn't do it for the money, I did it for the history and the joy of it... oh... and my need to know!

  I am getting tired of “excusists” yes... I made that word up... (those who create excuses as to why it isn't there any more so why continue looking huh?” There is NO GARANTEE that you will find it! I think this happens so that they can in their own good conscience pat themselves on the back and walk away thinking/shitting themselves in that they have done everything possible when in fact, they simply do not have what it takes... keep in mind I have projects I am still working on from near 30 years ago.

• Physically Capable, I don't think we need to elaborate...

• Skepticism is a must, however it can easily be overdone, none would admit it, but if you truly are a narcissist, this isn't for you... you are not superior and nether am I!

• Persistence! IF we reach a point where in WE have exhausted all possibilities, I WILL NOT leave you hanging, I have plenty of other projects just as exciting... I will participate, as so should you, as much as I am able... hint... I am getting older, and the older I get the less I give a shit...

• Perspective... WITH Common Sense... the ability to see clearly and from different points, the ability to see through a line of bullshit even if it is covered with gold dust...

• MUST NOT be roped to a job, I am sorry but this is critical, some have enough freedom in their job to make it possible, but I encourage you. IF you DO NOT have this kind of freedom, DON”T do it, your family is much more important than trying to burn the candle at each end... If you CANNOT throw $5000 out into the street and never give it a second thought like I think could with $5 dollars... or leave your job for a week at a time with out it affecting you financial stability... this might not be for you...

• IF POSSIBLE, involve your family...

• Have NO expectations... if you are so wrapped up in the idea of Gold GOLD GOLD! To where you can't sleep, then please stay away from me... all I want is a home for my family and paid for, I am tired of being ousted and removed from a home due to greed GREED GREED!

• Get your head straight! Why do you want to do this? Hell I still ask myself why I do this.... Know yourself, is there real intent here? What is your motive? Is it pure? I warn you, the lust for Gold GOLD GOLD! Is a curse! I have seen it ruin lives, some of which were at one time, friends...

I'm sure I could add many other things that I am sure we will talk about, but I list these things just for starters... don't be butt hurt If I do not choose you, my reasons could be many... Like some... I'm not asking you to invest $5000 just so you can go up on the mountain with no direction or foundation and look around for something that isn't there with others who fell for the same line of bullshit

The short of it is... I am looking... for now... one man/woman, humble, confident, capable, with common sense, perspective, with real intent. And who knows and recognizes their maker and understands where their success came from..

And please... you are always welcome to your beliefs and views but... leave the Kenworthy crap at home, or where it really belongs, in the garbage...

It will start with an email, tell me about yourself and why you? Why do you want to?... If I find what I am looking for in your letter, we will arrange for a phone call... and go from there...

Daniel (Tuscoro@gmail.com)

 Originally Posted Nov 16th 2022

The Arolla le Sampora Gold Cache 1850

"hondo"

The following story has been written before, but with slightly different details that quite frankly don’t matter.

I have said many times before, that I do not chase after story book tales, this story in the past has been dubbed as the Black Bull mine. The story never really interested me until one of four copied maps was given to my friend by a Navajo/Apache Indian who one day showed up at work with the maps, telling my friend he wanted him to have them and that the original maps were taken from the dead Spaniards of the past when his grandfathers had killed them as they passed through the 4 corners area long ago. 

I took notice of one of the maps known by some as the 1850 Arolla le Sampora Map which just happened to have certain markings that clearly was the location told in the Black bull mine story… if my reckoning is correct. 

The original story went something like this…

Sometime in the early 1900’s Mr. Brinkerhoff a prospector in the Park City area, (It was likely Mr. Clegg of the Park city area), had 4 floating claims in the Weber River area .

One day while prospecting near a Creek and South near an old cattle trail (which by the way is an old Spanish trail), he came across a large “granite” (Likely Basalt) boulder with a cross on it (another source says “Maltese Cross”) with one arm of the cross pointing longer in one direction. The prospector notice a very dim trail breaking off and heading in that direction and so he followed it not to far when he came to a small stream. Crossing the stream and continuing to follow the old trail he came to what seemed to be the end and so he began to look around. As I recall from another source not in the publication which I have not read in many years, he was in some low brush and fell into a hole. It was not a deep hole and he dusted himself off and discovered it was in fact a tunnel of sort. Following it for a short distance it opened up into a large room, then it went into a tunnel again and shortly thereafter into a small room where in he found stacked nicely on the floor, an untold size stack of 10 lb gold bars. 

Me and my baby girl (Now 19) on the old cattle trail

 

Usually the story goes that the finder left and took nothing with him and later could not find it, but this story is different. Mr. Brinkerhoff, or Likely Mr. Clegg, took one of the bars with him and days later he took his son back up with him. It is said his son had a sister named Zula B… this would no doubt be Zula Brinkerhoff whose maiden name was Clegg, which is why I suspect Mr. Clegg and not Brinkerhoff. Taking his son to the site was shortened when walking “the old Cattle Trail” a big black bull stood in their path, if you had ever been on that old trail there is many places where in if you met up with a bull coming down and you going up, there is no where to get out of the way. Several times they tried to get the bull to move but it just wouldn’t budge… Now the last part puzzles me… it is said that because the bull wouldn’t move, he took it as a sign that he was not to go back to retrieve more bars. I personally would have had a hell of a steak dinner that night. Any way, the story melted into oblivion after that until one of the book authors revived it sometime in 1980’s or 90’s. 

Well about 11 years ago and after receiving the 4 copies of old Spanish maps and having time to look things over, I made my way up to this area to see if the details were correct… and we found that Mr. Clegg or Brinkerhoff couldn’t have been so lucky. Long after he was gone, it seems the Arolla map verified certain details. The old cattle trail as it was called is not an old cattle trail, well not originally, I have walked that trail from top to bottom and although it may have been used as an old cattle trail in recent times, it was an old Spanish trail prior. The big boulder is definitely there, but… the cross has been broken off and the rock is not granite but we’ll let that one slide… and there is still to this day what appears to be and old nearly vanished old trail leading off, or at least 10 years ago it was.

 

Examining the markings on the trees along the old trail

 

 

My support team of the day…

 But what sold me on the story was the things on the map, that the Prospector never knew. There was indeed a cache located at that spot and likely is still there. On the map is a swastika with a big dot on the end of one of the legs, my friend never knew what it meant, but he did find an aspen tree many years ago which had the very same character on it as is shown on the map, it doesn’t get any better, and the tree was right where it should be based on what the swastika represents and where it is located on the map. 

I even found the hondo (deep) shaft marked on the map up the canyon, today it is recognized as a “sink hole.”

 Whether a Sinkhole or shaft its still hondo..

 

The long gone Swastika with a big dot, found by Steve Shaffer long ago near the cache site

Steve has recently passed away, and we are going to miss you old friend.

Steve also shared a photo with me of his son posing by an old mill wheel they found not far up the canyon

(Not at liberty to share the photo)

 

A clip of the old map

  

When all this was going on with me, I was just starting to have problems with my knees, however I have been back several times but couldn’t go to far. I have two friends who independently have search the area and some interesting things have been found however no small hole as of yet. One of those friends has since passed away, my most dedicated treasure hunter, Todd Strong, whom I miss dearly. My other friend I believe is still working the area near what he now calls Ruger creek, because somewhere in that drainage is where he lost his Ruger Pistol a few years ago. I am anxious to return to this place, now that I have been knee pain free for about a year or more  thanks to my sweet Amy, one of my greatest blessings.

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