One variety of the “Lost Dutchman” story concerns the operations of a German who made his headquarters at Wickenburg, in the early 1870s. He had a very irritating habit of disappearing from the camp once in a while, going by night, and taking with him several burros, whose feet would be so well wrapped that trailing was impossible. He would return at night, in equally as mysterious a manner, his burros loaded with gold ore of wonderful richness. Efforts at tracking him failed. The country for miles around was searched carefully to find the source of his wealth, which could not have been very far distant. The ore was not the same as that at the Vulture Mine. The location of the mine never became known to anyone, save its discoverer. He disappeared, as usual, one night, and never returned. The assumption that he was murdered by Apache Indians appears to have been sustained by a prospector’s discovery near the Vulture Mine in the summer of 1895 of the barrel of an old muzzle-loading shotgun, and by it, a home-made mesquite gun stock.