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THE LOST ADAMS DIGGINGS

The 1998 Search Photos

BOOKS BY JACK PURCELL

Hell Bent For Santa Fe - The Texan Santa Fe Expedition of 1841

Poems of the New Old West

Desert Emergency Survival Basics

Here's the best writer I know:

Read the book that CEOs want you to burn.

 

 


 

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A burned out cabin ruin with an aspen tree growing out of the inside, bear claw marks 12 feet up, 3 hand forged nails, a longtom sluicebox axed out of a 3 foot diameter log, a spring 75 feet above the sluice, an arrastra below.  A mysterious map chiseled on the face of a 300 pound rock surface depicting the exact layout of the canyon, the cabin, the waterfall, all so accurately depicted the person had to have scrutinized the layout from the mountaintop, then scratched it on this stone 600 vertical feet below and half a mile away.  The rock was carefully placed on the canyon wall above eye-level so it was easily seen, but only by someone looking up.

       

Symbols carved into rock faces long ago on the upper-west face of the mountain below the most heavily worked quartz outcroppings near the crest.

     

       

Old friends Dana Evans and Gale Kloesel

We found everything aspiring searchers could want except the Lost Adams Diggings

 

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03/20/2005