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Many of our viewers will certainly remember the Canadian Club whiskey
that was buried in the Superstition Mountains and clues to the lost Dutchman gold mine were given
to help find it Canadian Club whiskey had been buried in exotic places all over the world at
that time and when this one was buried 14 cases had been buried and 11of them were yet to be found
since then I've only heard of one on Mount Kilimanjaro that was found by accident
so probably there's at least 10 cases out there that are still yet to be found
well yours truly found that on the second day of the campaign
I had a clue that wasn't given that I knew about that helped me find it so quickly
is that I knew that absolutely that the forest service was not going to allow any Corporation to
bury anything in the wilderness so I didn't follow any of the clues that led you into the mountain
and that was I think that was absolutely key to finding it so fast however they had to send
somebody out from Phoenix and I had to take him out to the site so they could verify everything
and I was credited with finding it on the third day of the thing and regardless it absolutely
destroyed a multi-million dollar campaign well that was in 1978 and 10 years later in 1988
a very beautiful lady decided that she was going to do a similar thing she also knew that the
forest service was not going to allow anything to be buried out there so she just planned to hide it
not bury it and it was a bronze statue of Two Mules being driven by the Dutchman
with a rifle ovary shoulder it was a beautiful statue and beautiful bronze and
I hesitate to name who'd done it because I'm a little confused between a couple of names so I'm
not going to name who who casted this but anyway she got some friends together that she was she
knew well and they went out into the mountains and and hid this thing and when the story come
out in the newspaper one of the clues immediately told me where they were and I don't remember just
what all the clues were I just remembered that one of the clues was the word oral, o-r-o and
the only place in the mountains that I know were the word oral was is on a rock on blacktop Mesa
so I got a couple of my Calvary guys and and we went just as quick as we could
and we got up on top of blacktop Mesa we got to that rock that said ORO and within 30 minutes we
found a pile of river rock River Rock on top of blacktop Mesa what possibly could this be
well the statue weighed approximately 60 pounds and you can't load that on a horse on one side
of a pack panyard without putting something on the other side so they used this river rock that
was found outside of the mountain to balance the other side of the paniard and it was dumped where
they offloaded the statue and I knew we had it and then with another another 30 minutes my oldest boy
found a place over the edge of the ridge right down towards the edge of blacktop Mesa on the
west side where all the black volcanic rock was and right next to a creosote Bush that it looked
like somebody had stepped in and bent it all over it looked almost possibly like the statue
was placed right in the bush but I think it was on a Flat Rock right there in front of that bush
and somehow that got trampled down but there was no statue well I just figured that somebody beat
us to it I mean how many people particularly Dutch Hunters would know about that clue ORO
so out we came well a few times a few days later I found out from a friend of mine
that the forest service blew a fuse when she took that after and hit it and forced her to remove it
so they went back in there with a with a a packer a stable owner and uh my friend Tom and removed
it and it turned out I was one day late from finding it myself and they took it out and went
up a long State Route 88 towards the beginning of a switchbacks and hit it behind some rocks
not not 15 yards off the road and some guy found it by complete accident wasn't even looking for it
and that's the story of the bronze
of blacktop Mesa.Thank you for watching this episode of mysteries of the Superstition Mountains
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