OLD DUTCH MINE
December 29, 1897
Ariozna Republican Newspaper

J.W. Watson writing to the Republican from Canon Diablo says that 
on recently passing through Silver City, NM to look at some 
mining property in the Santa Ritas, he met Walter King, a cook 
on his way to the Superstition Mountains to try to find the lost 
Dutch mine. He was accompnaied by an old Mexican who claimed to 
have worked in the mine.  King's errand caused a great deal of 
excitement about Silver city and a number of prospectors are 
following them. It was believed that King had a map of the 
country. The Dutch mine is a proprty concerning which there 
has been more rumor than known facts. It was believed to be a 
very rich mine. The original owners were driven out by the 
Apaches.  One of them was killed and the other was picked up 
on the desert insane.  Several unsuccessful expedition have 
been made to rediscover the mine and occasionally a prospector 
comes upon a pick or shovel in an abandoned shaft, inducing 
him to believe that the Dutch mine has been found agiain.

Other quests have turned out disasterously.  In search for the 
hidden wealth  more than one man has lost his mind. It is doubted 
by many that the mine has an existence.