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Fort Huachuca Gold
. . . It was 1941. Private Robert Jones and his buddy had some free time on post. They spent the day heading up a mule trail into Huachuca Canyon. It was a serene and beautiful stroll until...
"He fell into a hole," recalls Capt. Kyle Duncan. "He slid down what 35 feet into a cavern into a room. When he dusted himself off and looked around, he looked around with the little light he had and he saw large bars of gold and silver"
Jones had found seven thousand bars of gold and silver. Some estimate the find was worth 90 million dollars. Jones marked the spot. He came back a few days later and hacked off a piece of gold with a hatchet. An assayer in Douglas paid $800 for the chunk of gold. Jones was going to be rich. His map tells the tale. . . . .
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