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MYSTERY GOLD
by Oren Arnold
SUPERSTITIONS
Danger rode with the Spaniard Don Miguel Peralta when he first
worked a fabulously rich gold mine in Superstition Mountain, almost
100 years ago. Death overtook him when Apache Indians massacred
his entire cavalcade. Then the mine lay idle for 30 years until Jacob
Walz the Dutchman found it, and murdered eight men to keep it exclu-
sively his. He took out fortunes in gleaming nuggets, died suddenly
without telling anybody its location.
Thus for half a century the Lost Dutchman Mine has been a strange
mystery lure in awesome, ominous old Superstition Mountain. Indians say
the curse of the Thunder Gods threatens white
men who come searching. In truth, many a
paleface has met death there, unexplained. Men
go into the rugged canyons and just disap-
pear. Months later, their skeletons may be
found. One such was Adolf Ruth, lone pros-
pector who thought he had an accurate map.
He disappeared, and six months later his
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skull was found (see photo) with a bullet hole
in the temple. Who killed him? Nobody knows.
The Lost Dutchman Mine today is as great
a fascination as ever. Beware, lest you too
succumb to the lure of hidden treasure, in
Arizona's mysterious old Superstition Moun-
tain.
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