Return after 50 years the Lost Mine Descend into the Mysterious 70-Foot Shaft!

[@johnchism5728]

I've commented on other parts of the series. Dad moved the family to Government Wells in 1960. Deanel Chism was the jackhammer and explosives engineer that widened Highway 88 from Government Wells to Apache Lake and Roosevelt Dam. Dad had copper porphyry with silver and gold claims from Government Wells to First Water Road. His claims were all called Sherri Lynn with a number for the claims. In the 1960s, claims posts were 4"x4" and 4 feet tall. As a young boy, I helped build a road from the back of Government Wells to his copper porphyry claims. That road is what is now the cement trail, which has animal tracks in it. It goes back farther than where it ends now. Part of it went into the big wash that runs along the south side of Government Wells. Because of the small waterfall area in the wash upstream. The copper porphyry is on the northern side of that wash. My dad and my uncles, Wallace, William, and Jauquin, worked on the north side of the Palmer Mine shaft - that dad owned the mineral rights until after the Superstition became a Wilderness Area - that was the same ore body a hundred feet from the shaft. I'd never been to it, but dad told me about that shaft you're talking about in this video. Dad knew an old man, Jenkins, who lived across from Government Wells. We also knew a hippy everybody called Doc who lived south of the Jenkins place about a mile. Those are my old stomping grounds.

[@TheFrogfeeder]

“When I was 81, about 5 years ago…” that’s one tough old man right there

[@larryhedrick254]

That would have been Doc Rosecrans a wwii veteran who had rattlesnakes living under his shack, he greatly enjoyed stoning on the wood floor so we could hear it rattle. I knew the caretaker, Jim Hatt the caretaker at government wells very well. The people at government wells were working a couple of gold mines up on the hillside (mines name) and were getting. some gold. The big wash was called Weeks Wash and had the north south flow line near government wells. It is a great area and it totally abandoned today.

[@bobkarenbrown6489]

This is great. The conclusion is fantastic. True Lost Dutchman hunting.

[@DonNichols-p8z]

Enjoyed listening to your story. Thank you.

[@tmagnerqa1663]

So tell me. If you did find the lost Dutchman mine what can be done with it. If it is in the park can it be mined or would you sell the information. Something else?

[@georgegouvas27]

its sedimentary rock there, he high graded ore from the mine he worked at.. he stashed.

[@darrelllne2136]

Hee, hee, I have to watch this one every now and then since it first came out, they're all so close, it's incredible nobody has found it ! I've only been there once and I walked right to it following My Grandmother's Map ! Jim Hatt lived in a little Trailer at Government Wells as a Caretaker Watchman and apparently, he never found it although he was less than a mile away from it and in plain sight of it ! I don't worry about it cause I have my own Federal Mining Lode Claim very close to where I live now in Salome Arizona that will take care of me for the rest of my days and I hate traveling through that mass of humanity through the Phoenix Highway System (Reminds me of downtown L.A. when I was a kid). An Interesting Note* I found this out on a Desert USA Forums Page of 2009, Jim Hatt notes that he lived here for several years down the street from where I now live before migrating to Apache Junction area. Guess he was Prospecting the Harqua Hala Mountains. I have no idea if My Grandmother's Old Mine was the Dutchman's or the Peralta's, but Grandma did Claim it in 1927 and named it after her Apache Indian Friend "Nishuime" that she knew from when Grandma worked at the Indian School in Phoenix. This was a mine the Mexicans worked up to when the Apaches killed them that Nishuime told my Grandma. I have all of the Documents to prove it and might even put forth a book on it if I get bored. I even have another friend that now knows that area although he had never been there before until I showed up, Mr. Salvador Delgadillo....Darrell Lane

[@Zman82]

That's not true cuz my grandma and me found the mine 20 years before you.

[@timliscum2861]

I did an analysis one day using Google Earth with all the clue and came up with an area, would love to see how close it is to this 70 ft mine

[@spunn_co]

dutchman i just saw a movie last night with him in it and hes gold mines hiest of hes own mines

[@petemitchell6788]

But was it solid?

[@timanctil8225]

Looks like someone dug out a cache...

[@kungfu2toe]

There are a bunch of gold bars down there

[@georgegouvas27]

it in bluff springs mtn...but no one listens to me about exactly where

[@charlesknowles2221]

😂

[@charlesknowles2221]

😂

[@ChinDiaz]

Tell me I will listen I have a newborn with a lot of needs and sick

[@AerialEscape]

I saw the title and thought it was about me for a second..

[@tonycugudda250]

Tell Dana hi from the 70's...

[@tonycugudda250]

Some day I'll show you all....lol

[@ChinDiaz]

Nice

[@russellmattingly8473]

No one digs a 70' shaft for no reason .anyone think to excavate a little deeper to see if the shaft continues ??

[@larryhedrick254]

Jim Hatt was hoping to find a drift at the bottom of the shaft but no evidence existed of any further workings.

[@russellmattingly8473]

@@larryhedrick254 I have been involved in mining most of my life.I think its a air shaft that was never finished for other mine workings.

[@oldhobomanl1747]

Lots of tap no substance.....