Miner's Camping Cabin Traditional Cache
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A cozy clean comfortable cute convenient camping cabin for all old gold mining coots.
This cache is an easy walk through the Gila forest and BLM land to a truly unique location. This cache is just west of the old gold mining town of Pinos Altos. Most of the Gold has long since been dug up and hauled off, but the camps of the miners are still there. This cache can be accessed from either the north or the south. I recommend the southern approach: enter Pinos Altos on highway 15 and turn onto “Bear Creek Road”, follow the road until you are out of town and roughly due south of the cache. A 1/3 of a mile walk down the creek will bring you to an old mining camp. We think the big rock wall was made when the miners removed the rocks from the wash. They made a wall to hold back the rubble and they slowed filled it in to make the terrace.
At the end of the Bear Creek Road is the remains of the last commercial gold mine of Grant County, it was closed in 1995 and the area has been reclaimed. The site has many minerals in the old waste piles, for any of you rock hounds.
The cache has been placed in an ammo can within sight of the cabin. It was loaded full of the easy to find gold (chalcopyrite) and the TB “reely fun”. A true old gold mining coot was camped on the hill to the southwest of the cache. If he is still there when you find the cache; becareful, he'll talk you to death. Enjoy the hunt.
"Perk" one of the local geo-cachers is also a mine claim surveyor. He did a little research into the site. This is from his log entry: “A real nice cache site! With the amount of rock work done here (large "bench" walls, hand dug well and rock cabin) I'd say this was more than just a temporary camp, I'll bet the guy had a pretty good paying claim. Before submitting this log I did a little research and found that this claim was never patented, therefore no mineral survey was ever filed. However I did find reference to this claim on a survey plat for an adjoining patented Lode claim named the "96" which shows the name of the unpatented and unsurveyed claim that the cache is on to be the "New York No.2 Lode" owned by Wm. Stevens and probably first staked around 1900.” Thanks for the extra info Perk.
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