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In 1934, Charley Williams stumbled out of the Superstition
Mountains with handfuls of gold nuggets and a spectacular story. Williams claimed the nuggets came from a huge
pile of nuggets he found just inside a cave’s entrance. Of course, he couldn’t remember where the
cave was located because in his excitement, he had hit his head and become
totally disoriented. He must have been
very, very disoriented since the gold was later proven to be dental gold.
Another story tells of gold bars in a cave near the
Massacre Grounds (where the Peraltas were massacred by the Apache). Prospector
James Baxter claimed he was guided to the cave by a blue light coming from the
cave. This cave is supposedly within a
two-mile radius of the First Water Trailhead.
A treasure hunter named John Hallenberg talked about a
cave filled with gold bars located on Bluff Springs Mountain. Hallenberg supposedly found a cave where he
discovered all kinds of old writing.
These marks did not resemble Native American petroglyphs but were
something entirely different. Hallenberg
thought the writing was Hebrew, but probably could have been anything. In any event, this adventure somehow
convinced Hallenberg that there was indeed a cave in the Superstitions filled
with gold bars. He even had a map
showing the direction to this “Cave of Gold.”
In the early 1980s, another tale of a cave filled with
gold emerged. Supposedly, a man named
Harry France (or LaFrance) discovered a cave filled with gold bars near Black
Top Mesa (or it might have been Weaver’s Needle). This was probably Jesuit treasure (unless it
wasn’t). With clues like this, it should
be easy to find.
Gold, Murder and Monsters in the Superstition Mountains
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