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Our story today begins in 1949. shortly after the finding of the Stone Maps which had received
massive publication all over the United States and many people become an armored with finding
gold and stuff of that nature there was a gentleman by the name of Henry Bruderlin
I'm not pronouncing that quite right but um he become enamored with the thoughts of finding
gold and he came out and started searching in the Superstition Mountains and he found a few things
that didn't mean a lot to him but he became aware through somebody of a Mexican family that had
a great deal of a great stash of documents from relatives of the past and he went to Rey Arizona
now Ray doesn't exist anymore it's south of superior and I've only been there once when
I came out here in in the 50s I picked up a Marine hitchhiking just out of Amarillo
and he asked for how far I was going I told him I was going to Mesa and he said great I live
Ray not very far from there well when we got to Superior it was about 11:30 at night so I drove
down to Rey and took him home and he insisted that I stay with these family this Mexican family
and uh they fed us breakfast the next morning and I bid them adieu and then never saw them again
well Henry went down and found the Mexican family a different one of course and they accepted him
with open arms and he explored their Bible and the documents that they had and it was a treasure
Trove from a great grandfather that had worked in the Silver Mines in Sonora and had been involved
in some other Explorations and he ran across a drawing of nothing but lines on a piece of paper
and the family had no idea what it was about so they let him have it and he took this drawing
and he studied it and studied it and he couldn't figure out what one symbol on the drawing meant
until he realized that he had run across a cactus out in the superstitions that had a stone driven
in it in all four sides and uh it dawned on him that that symbol on the map was this cactus that
he had found so he contacted Jesse Mullins who was 75 at the time and was a pioneer of Arizona
a brother to Heart Mullins and I knew both these people I you can go to the story that we done on
the Rock House in Queen Valley where I worked running cattle for a while and when I met Jesse
and Hart who took my dad and I up to some of the claims they had at Elephant Butte and Buzzard's
Roost and then we went up to bayou's Butte and that story you can you can watch for yourself
anyway Jesse looked at this drawing as this map you might say and he thought he recognized where
this area was and he told Henry the story of a fellow that we only know is the name of Wagner
now Jesse's father was a stagecoach driver and this Mr Wagner used to get on his stage with a
with a suitcase and he'd hand the suitcase to Frank and Frank would put it up on top of the
of the coach and he and Mr Wagner got out at Queen the queen Valley area out by Florence Junction
and three days later he was waiting when the stage came back and when he handed the suitcase
up to Mr Mullins to put it on top of the coach the suitcase weighed something terrible much more than
what it was when uh when he came when he gave it to him the first time anyway Jesse was aware
through from his father that Mr Wagner was going up Whitlow Canyon and they were able to to trace
on this map some of the direction that Mr Wagner was going but anyway uh Jesse and and Henry uh
had found these seven filled in pits in a close proximity of each other and although
Henry had excavated one down 18 feet they never it never really came to anything
I have a copy of that map that was given to Henry by that Mexican family
I also have three other copies of that map and they're all different
and I want to show you a picture of another Indian hieroglyphic out in the superstitions
that has been called the master map and two other Maps drawn off of that one and they're
all different all these maps and they're all different the to finish the story though
uh when when Henry would turn to 80. he wanted to make one more trip in the Superstition Mountains
and Henry it was friends with Clay Worst and they made this trip with Feldman's packing
them in and they spent a few days out there reminiscing about all the great fun they had
in the Superstition searching for the lost Dutchman mime Henry was married he had three
children and the his wife would stay with his uh with her folks while he was out in the mountains
at Desert Sage where we close to what we call Twin Knolls about five miles from here one of their
children Susan became Miss California another boy became has a Production Studio in Hollywood
and his last son was none other than James Brolin the movie star who was married to Barbra Streisand
and the thing that I want to know what was in that suitcase is it just another mystery of the
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