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hey you're right on time welcome to another Mysteries of the Superstition
Mountains and we have a special, special show today because we're going to be
talking with Clay Worst and nobody better did tell us about the area of
Goldfield and the WASP Mine and the Mammoth Mine then Clay Worst as a matter
of fact he's got a great story about the Mammoth mine he's gonna share with us Clay.
back in the early days of the Mammoth mine there was a cave-in and
there was a man trapped down there for over a month
with nothing to eat he just there's enough mine water that he had water
and he could tap on a pipe so they could hear up up above that there was someone
alive down there this all sounds a little bit too fantastic so how did were
they able to get to him. so they had to sink another shaft down alongside him
drift across and bring this guy out I'm really amazed that he was able to
survive this. and when they brought him out I think he weighed about a hundred
and twenty pounds but he actually walked out under his own power and he lived
what about the man that was high grading gold and then hiding it up in the
mountains yeah there's another story and apparently this is not just a story this
apparently actually happened there was some extremely high-grade gold in the
mammoth mine and it was a real temptation for the miners that worked
there to try and sneak that stuff out called high grading and there was a lot
of it going on they had to build a dry room where when the miners came in they
completely stripped naked changed into their mining clothes then when they came
out showered and changed back into their day clothes and went home but high
grading still continued and there was one named man
named AL Sinner who was actually a foreman there so he was in a position of
trust where he had a little more freedom than the miners did and he began high
grading and of all this this seems difficult to understand but what he
actually did every week he made a trip up to the top of Superstition Mountain
and deposited this high-grade gold that he had stolen and this went on for a
long time and finally they caught him and the Bulles at the mine
beat him almost senseless broke one of his arms if they had to amputate so what
happened to him after he was beaten up? Sinner got killed. Sinner went back into
the Superstition Mountains and never came out okay do we know why he stole
from the mine but he had a lady friend he was actually fell in love with a
lovely lady from Mesa but Sinner had nothing and she was a woman of
refinement and he felt that he could never ask her to marry him until he had
something to offer her this was his incentive and stealing all this gold so
did anyone ever go up looking for the gold
Bob Corbin who was the Attorney General at that time and Tom Colinborn who is a
historian here tried to follow Sinner's map up to the top of Superstition Mountain
they actually located sinner's camp they never found the gold
coming down off the mountain a perilous route to try with a pack outfit they found a
place down in the canyon bottom where there was a skeleton of a dead mule and
they also found Sinners skeleton with one arm missing so they knew it was
Sinner and they buried Sinner down there but
the question was when was Center killed was Center killed before he managed to
move his gold down off the mountain or had Center moved most of the gold down
off the mountain was going back to to bring down his camp his personal effects
when he was killed you just don't know but Corbin and
Colinbourne made a diligent search to try and find Sinners gold up on top of
superstition well centers gold is somewhere somewhere out there all right
so they found the camp but they never found the gold well it was amazing
because Corbin and Colinbourne found Sinners camp and they found his skeleton
and they found the skeleton of a dead mule but they never found the gold
well thanks for joining us for another special episode of mysteries of the
Superstition Mountains and we'd like to thank Clay Worst the owner of the WASP
mine who knows everything about this area he's gonna be sharing more stories
with us sharing more of the Mysteries of the Superstition Mountains
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