According to accounts told throughout the years, a few people have stumbled onto this rich claim. Some have even prospered from the gold ore that came from the mine. The last person that is thought to know the location of the claim was a man named Jacob Waltz, who was a German immigrant.
Luck was with him with apparently, since he ended up befriending one of the surviving Peralta heirs. They proceeded to informed him of the location for some reason. Next, to the story came Jacob Waltz, the man who would be the inspiration for the Lost Dutchman Mine name. He was able to convince another man, named Jacob Weiser, to partner with him and help explore the area looking for this lost mine.
Supposedly, they found it according to people who witnessed both paying for supplies with high grade gold ore. Within a few years, Weiser disappeared without a trace. Many thought Waltz had something to do with it, but it was never proved.Â
Waltz ultimately suffered from medical conditions that lead to his death. But this was not before he sent friends to retrieve $15,000 worth of gold from his homestead. Did he tell others where the mine was before his death?Â
He tried, but failed in telling anyone the exact location and because of it, over time it became known as the “Lost Dutchman Mine”. It appears that the people had trouble at the time with confusing the Germans with the Dutch very frequently, which cause them to name it after a Dutch man instead of the German man he was. Â
Many have gone missing or ended up dead in this region over the years. This has lead to people believing in the supposed curse that the Superstition Mountains hold. Now a part of the federal government, it has become a state park and protected. So the question remains, did the Lost Dutchman Mine really exist and if so is it just laying waiting to be rediscovered? What we at least do know is many have died looking for it over the years, while others claimed to have found it.
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