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Weaver's Needle
Legend
tells of a fabulous mine in Arizona’s Superstition Mountains. So alluring is
the prospect of unlimited wealth that it said that hundreds have died searching
for the lost mine.
The
entire story began in 1748 when the Peralta family began mining silver and
gold. According to family records this wealthy family operated eighteen silver
and gold mines in the Superstition Mountains. With the Mexican War of 1848, law
and order disintegrated in the area and the Apache Indians grew increasingly
hostile, attacking the miners almost continuously. Disaster finally overtook
the Peraltas in September 1848 with a general massacre by the Apaches.
Following this massacre the Apaches controlled the Superstition Mountains until
1865.
Jacob Walz (or Waltz),
the “Dutchman” enters the picture in 1871 with his partner Jacob Weiser.
The two immigrants purchased a map drawn by the original Peralta family and
located the mine “within an imaginary circle whose diameter is not more than
five miles and whose center is marked by the Weaver’s Needle.”
Weaver’s Needle was
known early on as “the finger of God”.
Woven into the fabric of the Superstition Mountains, this prominent peak
was named in the 1850s for Pauline Weaver, a famous pioneer scout.
Join us as we recount a fictional story of the
Superstitions and then look at the real history of the legends that haunt these
mountains in our new book: Gold, Murder and Monsters in the Superstition
Mountains
Arizona’s Superstition Mountains are mysterious,
forbidding, and dangerous. The
Superstitions are said to have claimed over five hundred lives. What were these people looking for? Is it possible that these mountains hide a
vast treasure? Is it possible that UFOs
land here? Is it possible that in these
mountains there is a door leading to the great underground city of the Lizard
Men? Join us as we explore the history
of the: Legends of the Superstition Mountains.
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