Golden Legends Tales of Buried Treasure

This notation features an overview of the Greaterville Placers of Arizona. In 1874, the Greaterville placers were discovered by a guy named  A. Smith. For a number of years they were mined by 3 different companies. Until 1989, the area was privately owned. But then the government swapped land for this 3000 acre area and made it part of the Coronado National Forest. Southeast of Tucson there is a town by the same name, Greaterville. The town lies 9 miles north of Sonoita at the foot of the Santa Rita Mountains. The gulches that exist there encompass 72 square miles. There are 15 gulches that have produced flake and nuggets. It is the richest placer gold in southern Arizona. The bedrock has ups and downs that form natural riffles where the gold is trapped. I have worked such areas and have found that clay frequently is deposited in these areas also along with gravel. The origin of the gold is higher up in the Santa Ritas. The  Yuba, St. Louis and Quebec mines are at ...

Old gold pan I found in a thrift store in Morro Bay, California.

This is my collection of gold photos. https://www.pinterest.com/juan32/gold/

First, let me say that this book has been panned. The two folks who cared to write reviews of the book gave it one star. That is like saying forget it to the public. Now, I bought the book on Amazon and I enjoyed it. It was definitely not a one star book. If you are a Southwest enthusiast, from Arizona in particular, or you have gold fever and believe there are untold places in Arizona and the Southwest which have not belched out evidence of gold to the old prospectors, then I say it is well worth the $3.00 for the read - indeed, it is worth more. I read this in two nights and didn't turn the light out because it was boring. I turned the light out because I had had a big day prospecting, and at nearly 70, age interferes with reading time! I really think this book has been done a disservice. The author, Helen, the wife of former AG of Arizona, Bill Corbin, has written something worth note. As an Arizonan, I favored Bill Corbin. My bias passes to his widow who has written a good...

Some states have seen local extinction, sometimes called extirpation, of black bear from the Midwest to the East. However black bear still live in many U.S. states, Canadian provinces, and Mexico to the extent that they are not classified an endangered species anymore. Black bear are also found in wooded areas in Arizona. The often big, lumbering black bears seem to locate themselves south of the Colorado River in Arizona. Various guiding services in Arizona provide guided hunts for black bear during specified hunting dates. All possible dates are as follows (see, http://www.azgfd.gov/regs/springregs.pdf for restrictions during this period): 2015 SPRING BEAR DATES: March 20 - April 30. A hunt in the spring can be had only by permit through a bonus or draw point system. The hunt in the fall requires the purchase of tags (over-the-counter) which do not specify a particular legal hunting area. That is, if you want to take a bear in the fall, a non-...

The United States purchased from Mexico in 1848 and 1853 areas of what is currently known as Arizona. This is when appreciable efforts to mine where made. Spanish and Mexican miners had minded for silver.Placer gold was brought to  churches by Indian who had converted.  These contributions to the church were from dry gravels and sands in selected areas of the Arizona desert. The areas after 1853 that were accessible to miners where in Tucson and Tubac in the southern part of Arizona. when the civil war began circa 1861, it was no longer safe to mine. Add in the threat from Apache raids and mining was halted until post civil war. See  http://www.westernmininghistory.com/articles/37945/page1

A friend exclaimed, "There’s a lot of gold in those hills." I fired back, "That’s a lot of bullion."         If it was, I'd take it. www.freepik.com