June 1, 2025 • 16 mins
A tale of a lost gold mine, a mine that no one ever staked a claim to.
Original Air Date: November 06, 1951
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Western Stories
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Narrator:
• Paul Shannon
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
Original Air Date: November 06, 1951
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Show: Western Stories
Phone: (707) 98 OTRDW (6-8739)
Narrator:
• Paul Shannon
Exit music from: Roundup on the Prairie by Aaron Kenny https://bit.ly/3kTj0kK
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to the old time radio Westerns. I'm your host,
Angel Ryans, and I'm excited to bring you another episode
absolutely free. This is one of over eighty episodes released
monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Episode, Adventures in Research. Suppose someone told you of a
river who sands glitter as though they were filled with gold.
(00:52):
Suppose you were sure it was gold. Wouldn't you be
eager to see it? Of course you would, especially if
you also learned that no one had ever staked the
claim to him.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, thereby hangs a tale, a tale of a lost
gold mine. This is Paul Channon bringing you another transcribed
story of science, produced as a public service in cooperation
with the Westinghouse with Search Laboratories, and today telling you
(01:24):
a strange story that the gins in the village of Pima, Arizona,
on August twentieth, eighteen sixty four. On that day, two
prospectors were deep in conversation on their favorite subject.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We'll let him what do you think? Ain't sure? What
about you? I think that Redskins tell him the truth?
Don't you? Maybe he is, Maybe he ain't.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I don't trust any of them, never seed one, Yet
I wouldn't sooner put a bullet in.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Maybe sobered. He looks okay and he talks okay, that's
all I care about. Well, it ain't all I care about, Adams.
I'm surprised at you. What can one engine do against
you and me and stick cothers? One engine against eight
white men. It's a little ashamed of yourself, by the way.
Wear them six fellas go to heah down the street
(02:15):
looking at the horse. You want me to go get them?
Let him be a fire. Let's get back to what
we were talking about. Oh, I'll grant you that engines
is bad business, but I think this one's on the level,
mainly because he just ain't got no reasons to lie,
and that he's in a patch andy. How do you
know he won't lead us into an ambush? Well, if
(02:36):
we ate wise to that when we deserve to be ambush.
I don't look at it that way. I got a
nice head of hair, and I even to keep it.
I can't blame you for that, but I do think
our engines on the level just ain't got no reason
not to be redskins don't need no reasons. Are you
listening to me? Adams. You get a chance to strike
(02:59):
it rich, to be millionaires for the rest of our days.
We could live in a hotel in San Francisco. Shock.
We could buy the hotel. Hey, how would that be?
By a hotel and order order anything you like for dinner?
Terrapin soup and pheasants and fancied desert. I ain't that
(03:19):
worth taking a chance for? Well, now, of course it is.
How about it, David? I reckon, I reckon. I could
have one of them there bathtubs in my room.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I'm sure you could could have it all for myself. Sure,
you're the whole hotel. Who's gonna stop you? You can
spend all day in the bathtub and you're okay?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Then I'm with it. Let's go. And where's that engine? Now?
Remember let me handle him? Go ahead? Uh? Oh, your
cheap My friend and me was just.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Talking about you.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You're all ready to go ahead? Okay?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You want me show you gold mine? Yeah, just like
you said, you give me a big stick, my loud noise. Yep,
we'll give you a brand new rifle and plenty ammunition.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
David, And you're gonna cut that engine with a rifle.
I said I'd handle it didn't. I I'll take the responsibility. Okay, Jeef,
Can we start right now? How many men come with us? Well?
Is Adam's here? And me? And then six fellas down
the street? No so much? What do you mean too much? Oh?
Eight of us will go. We won't go at all.
(04:30):
We kind of hold something. Will you stop jarring? Jeez?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I said, we're all going, and you don't get the rifle.
I'll make your mind up so much. Thank only two
white men, I said, We're all.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Going, and that's how it's gonna be. Yeah, take a
look at this rifle. Her fine, gone, Well, what do
you say if you start out now? The rifle's yours?
Yes you no? Me say yes? Good?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Adams over, round up leathers. Well, even now, like this minute,
you're hidden with the biggest gold mine in the United States.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Starting from the base of Twin Mountain, Davidson, Adams and
their party followed the Indian Guide up into the foothills
for days. They wound their way through gorges and passes. Finally,
they squeezed through a narrow crevice in a red limestone cliff,
and when they emerged, they could hardly believe their eyes
for they're stretching out in front of them was a.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
River, a hidden river. Did you ever see I've never
bet like that. I'll bet that sand is chuck full
of gold. And let's take a look.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Wait a minute, wait nothing, come on, tell us gold. Yes,
there was gold in that river bed. In fifteen minutes,
they found three gold NuGet worth hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Adams look figguring.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
The man's hearts, figgering a man's head, Get puddlebags, hot hands, anything.
This is the biggest pike in history.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Come on, hold on, wait a minute, everybody.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Before we make another move, I'd just like to say
a few words. Car engine guide, jeez, you sure kept
your word. You want to thank you? No?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
No, I guess you'd be going back to Timur. Yeah,
But first me say one thing. If everybody stay here,
nothing happened.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
What do you mean stay here? Me mean no? Go
up river? Why not? Up river is land of Apatches.
You'll go there? You all be killed.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
At first, the prospectors heeded the Indians warning, remaining at
their first location. They recovered their gold by the primitive
operation known as panning. First, they stirred the sand from
the river bed and shook it by hand in a
miners pan. This permitted the gold to sink to the bottom. Then,
by dipping the pan into the water and pouring the
water off, they gradually washed away the sand until only
(07:23):
the gold and heavy minerals remained. Finally, by twisting and
tilting the pan, they separated the gold, a primitive process
which went on for days, but men in gold make
a strange combination. The more gold the party extracted, the
more gold they wanted. Finally, one of the men, acting
as spokesman for the others, walked up the davity.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'd like to talk to you, sure, MATEU put on
your mind? Well, I guess you know what I'm going
to say. We've all been thinking the same thing for
days now. We worked this part of the river clean.
We want to move on up the river. I was
expecting that it might as well get as much as
we possibly can. Now now there must be tons of
gold up there, just waiting for someone to come and
(08:09):
get it. Ain't that right? Yeah? That's right? Only Oh,
I know what you're thinking. That engine's got you scared eighty.
I ain't looking for cobble, Mitchel. Up the river is
apache country even the US Army. Don't go out of
their way to tangle with them. I don't care who's
up there, Davidson. Time after gold see, and there ain't
no apache living. It's going to stop me. Besides, I
(08:31):
ain't going up there alone. You know how many is
going with you? Every one of us except Adams, and
he wants to stay here with you. Well, I guess
I can't stop you if you want to go. When
are you leaving? Right and early tomorrow morning? That funny ammunition? Yep?
About food? Well, now that's what I want to talk
to you about. We'd like our share of the grub.
Is that okay with you? Let's see it's six of you. Yeah,
(08:55):
he's starting to run low on food, Mitchell. Yeah, we
won't take no more in our proper share. Now, how's
that okay? I guess good luck to you. And if
I don't see you in the morning, keep your eyes
and ears open, Why open? We will, Davidson. We'll come
back in a week wearing gold shoes, Yes, sir, gold shoes.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Davidson and Adams waited. By the end of August, their
supplies ran out. Finally they could no longer postpone a decision.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That was an ever. I tell you you'll never make it.
David Would you rather stay here and die? How far
is it to Fort Wingate? I don't know. Yah, heels
so weak. I have a stand up. How do you
think of it? For you? Adam's listening to me. Once
we get to Fort Wingate, get some wood in our stomach,
(09:52):
then we can go back and join the others up
the river. We got to get to Fort Wingate first.
Don't you see that? We ain't got no other choice.
Oh the way I calculate what wind gates ought to
be somewhere in that direction. If we keep moving straight,
(10:13):
we ought to hit it. But I suppose we don't.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I ain't want to think about that, Adams. We gotta
get there to understand you just got it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And so Davidson and Adams started out slowly down the
same mountain, passes through the gorge, and finally through the
same narrow crevit in that red limestone cliff. When they
emerged on the other side, Davidson.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Look, there's Mitchell laying on the ground, and there's the
rest of them, all six on. It'll be last one
of them. I want them not to go up to
looks like their food run out, and they must have
tried to get back to us. Hey, Davidson, what's up.
(11:07):
Let's get out of her quick. That's through the credit.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So it happened that on September sixteenth, eighteen sixty four,
a detachment of US soldiers from borid Apache, Arizona, saw
two solitary figures stumbling across the desert, half cemented from
heat and thirst. They told one of the strangest stories
ever heard. When they were finished, the soldiers merely smile.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Well, lieutenant, what do you think.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Why the whole thing's impossible, absolutely impossible, lost gold mine
in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Why they're out of their mind?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's what everyone else said too. We know that Davidson
gave up and returned to his home in the East.
Adams went back to his family in Los Angeles. Twenty
years later, he returned searched for the same location for
the crevice in the rock, but he was unsuccessful.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
At last, in despair, he said, mhm, it's no use. Yeah,
I just can't remember perhaps the right maybe it was
just to dream, but a dream or not so.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Ended one of the strangest incidents in the story of mining,
an industry who's whole history is one of human hardship
and struggle. Today, in contrast to the primitive efforts of
Davidson an Atoms, mining is done with the help of
modern science. The old prospector has been replaced by the
expert geology, whose knowledge of the earth is as accurate
(13:17):
as a surgeon's knowledge of the human body. And the
old miner with his pick and shovel has given way
to huge machines run by electricity. Weighing millions of pounds.
They scoop out whole carloads of war in one gulf. Yes,
the days of Davidson and Atoms are largely a thing
of the past, but the spirit which drove them on
(13:39):
still lives and continues to make the mining industry an
ever living adventure in research. And that's today's adventure and research.
Produced in cooperation with the Westinghouse Research Laboratory. These programs
(14:09):
are broadcast to Armed Forces personnel overseas through the facilities.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Join us again next week for another transcribed story of
science on Adventures in research.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
This has been a presentation of Otrwesterns dot Com and
we hope you enjoyed. Please take some time to like
and rate this episode within your favorite pot cast application.
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Speaker 5 (16:03):
Sam append
Welcome to the old time radio Westerns. I'm your host,
Angel Ryans, and I'm excited to bring you another episode
absolutely free. This is one of over eighty episodes released
monthly for your enjoyment. Now let's get into this.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Episode, Adventures in Research. Suppose someone told you of a
river who sands glitter as though they were filled with gold.
(00:52):
Suppose you were sure it was gold. Wouldn't you be
eager to see it? Of course you would, especially if
you also learned that no one had ever staked the
claim to him.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Why not?
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well, thereby hangs a tale, a tale of a lost
gold mine. This is Paul Channon bringing you another transcribed
story of science, produced as a public service in cooperation
with the Westinghouse with Search Laboratories, and today telling you
(01:24):
a strange story that the gins in the village of Pima, Arizona,
on August twentieth, eighteen sixty four. On that day, two
prospectors were deep in conversation on their favorite subject.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
We'll let him what do you think? Ain't sure? What
about you? I think that Redskins tell him the truth?
Don't you? Maybe he is, Maybe he ain't.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I don't trust any of them, never seed one, Yet
I wouldn't sooner put a bullet in.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Maybe sobered. He looks okay and he talks okay, that's
all I care about. Well, it ain't all I care about, Adams.
I'm surprised at you. What can one engine do against
you and me and stick cothers? One engine against eight
white men. It's a little ashamed of yourself, by the way.
Wear them six fellas go to heah down the street
(02:15):
looking at the horse. You want me to go get them?
Let him be a fire. Let's get back to what
we were talking about. Oh, I'll grant you that engines
is bad business, but I think this one's on the level,
mainly because he just ain't got no reasons to lie,
and that he's in a patch andy. How do you
know he won't lead us into an ambush? Well, if
(02:36):
we ate wise to that when we deserve to be ambush.
I don't look at it that way. I got a
nice head of hair, and I even to keep it.
I can't blame you for that, but I do think
our engines on the level just ain't got no reason
not to be redskins don't need no reasons. Are you
listening to me? Adams. You get a chance to strike
(02:59):
it rich, to be millionaires for the rest of our days.
We could live in a hotel in San Francisco. Shock.
We could buy the hotel. Hey, how would that be?
By a hotel and order order anything you like for dinner?
Terrapin soup and pheasants and fancied desert. I ain't that
(03:19):
worth taking a chance for? Well, now, of course it is.
How about it, David? I reckon, I reckon. I could
have one of them there bathtubs in my room.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I'm sure you could could have it all for myself. Sure,
you're the whole hotel. Who's gonna stop you? You can
spend all day in the bathtub and you're okay?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Then I'm with it. Let's go. And where's that engine? Now?
Remember let me handle him? Go ahead? Uh? Oh, your
cheap My friend and me was just.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Talking about you.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You're all ready to go ahead? Okay?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
You want me show you gold mine? Yeah, just like
you said, you give me a big stick, my loud noise. Yep,
we'll give you a brand new rifle and plenty ammunition.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
David, And you're gonna cut that engine with a rifle.
I said I'd handle it didn't. I I'll take the responsibility. Okay, Jeef,
Can we start right now? How many men come with us? Well?
Is Adam's here? And me? And then six fellas down
the street? No so much? What do you mean too much? Oh?
Eight of us will go. We won't go at all.
(04:30):
We kind of hold something. Will you stop jarring? Jeez?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
I said, we're all going, and you don't get the rifle.
I'll make your mind up so much. Thank only two
white men, I said, We're all.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Going, and that's how it's gonna be. Yeah, take a
look at this rifle. Her fine, gone, Well, what do
you say if you start out now? The rifle's yours?
Yes you no? Me say yes? Good?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Adams over, round up leathers. Well, even now, like this minute,
you're hidden with the biggest gold mine in the United States.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Starting from the base of Twin Mountain, Davidson, Adams and
their party followed the Indian Guide up into the foothills
for days. They wound their way through gorges and passes. Finally,
they squeezed through a narrow crevice in a red limestone cliff,
and when they emerged, they could hardly believe their eyes
for they're stretching out in front of them was a.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
River, a hidden river. Did you ever see I've never
bet like that. I'll bet that sand is chuck full
of gold. And let's take a look.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Wait a minute, wait nothing, come on, tell us gold. Yes,
there was gold in that river bed. In fifteen minutes,
they found three gold NuGet worth hundreds of dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Adams look figguring.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
The man's hearts, figgering a man's head, Get puddlebags, hot hands, anything.
This is the biggest pike in history.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Come on, hold on, wait a minute, everybody.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Before we make another move, I'd just like to say
a few words. Car engine guide, jeez, you sure kept
your word. You want to thank you? No?
Speaker 4 (06:30):
No, I guess you'd be going back to Timur. Yeah,
But first me say one thing. If everybody stay here,
nothing happened.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
What do you mean stay here? Me mean no? Go
up river? Why not? Up river is land of Apatches.
You'll go there? You all be killed.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
At first, the prospectors heeded the Indians warning, remaining at
their first location. They recovered their gold by the primitive
operation known as panning. First, they stirred the sand from
the river bed and shook it by hand in a
miners pan. This permitted the gold to sink to the bottom. Then,
by dipping the pan into the water and pouring the
water off, they gradually washed away the sand until only
(07:23):
the gold and heavy minerals remained. Finally, by twisting and
tilting the pan, they separated the gold, a primitive process
which went on for days, but men in gold make
a strange combination. The more gold the party extracted, the
more gold they wanted. Finally, one of the men, acting
as spokesman for the others, walked up the davity.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I'd like to talk to you, sure, MATEU put on
your mind? Well, I guess you know what I'm going
to say. We've all been thinking the same thing for
days now. We worked this part of the river clean.
We want to move on up the river. I was
expecting that it might as well get as much as
we possibly can. Now now there must be tons of
gold up there, just waiting for someone to come and
(08:09):
get it. Ain't that right? Yeah? That's right? Only Oh,
I know what you're thinking. That engine's got you scared eighty.
I ain't looking for cobble, Mitchel. Up the river is
apache country even the US Army. Don't go out of
their way to tangle with them. I don't care who's
up there, Davidson. Time after gold see, and there ain't
no apache living. It's going to stop me. Besides, I
(08:31):
ain't going up there alone. You know how many is
going with you? Every one of us except Adams, and
he wants to stay here with you. Well, I guess
I can't stop you if you want to go. When
are you leaving? Right and early tomorrow morning? That funny ammunition? Yep?
About food? Well, now that's what I want to talk
to you about. We'd like our share of the grub.
Is that okay with you? Let's see it's six of you. Yeah,
(08:55):
he's starting to run low on food, Mitchell. Yeah, we
won't take no more in our proper share. Now, how's
that okay? I guess good luck to you. And if
I don't see you in the morning, keep your eyes
and ears open, Why open? We will, Davidson. We'll come
back in a week wearing gold shoes, Yes, sir, gold shoes.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Davidson and Adams waited. By the end of August, their
supplies ran out. Finally they could no longer postpone a decision.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That was an ever. I tell you you'll never make it.
David Would you rather stay here and die? How far
is it to Fort Wingate? I don't know. Yah, heels
so weak. I have a stand up. How do you
think of it? For you? Adam's listening to me. Once
we get to Fort Wingate, get some wood in our stomach,
(09:52):
then we can go back and join the others up
the river. We got to get to Fort Wingate first.
Don't you see that? We ain't got no other choice.
Oh the way I calculate what wind gates ought to
be somewhere in that direction. If we keep moving straight,
(10:13):
we ought to hit it. But I suppose we don't.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I ain't want to think about that, Adams. We gotta
get there to understand you just got it.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And so Davidson and Adams started out slowly down the
same mountain, passes through the gorge, and finally through the
same narrow crevit in that red limestone cliff. When they
emerged on the other side, Davidson.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Look, there's Mitchell laying on the ground, and there's the
rest of them, all six on. It'll be last one
of them. I want them not to go up to
looks like their food run out, and they must have
tried to get back to us. Hey, Davidson, what's up.
(11:07):
Let's get out of her quick. That's through the credit.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
So it happened that on September sixteenth, eighteen sixty four,
a detachment of US soldiers from borid Apache, Arizona, saw
two solitary figures stumbling across the desert, half cemented from
heat and thirst. They told one of the strangest stories
ever heard. When they were finished, the soldiers merely smile.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Well, lieutenant, what do you think.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Why the whole thing's impossible, absolutely impossible, lost gold mine
in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Why they're out of their mind?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
That's what everyone else said too. We know that Davidson
gave up and returned to his home in the East.
Adams went back to his family in Los Angeles. Twenty
years later, he returned searched for the same location for
the crevice in the rock, but he was unsuccessful.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
At last, in despair, he said, mhm, it's no use. Yeah,
I just can't remember perhaps the right maybe it was
just to dream, but a dream or not so.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Ended one of the strangest incidents in the story of mining,
an industry who's whole history is one of human hardship
and struggle. Today, in contrast to the primitive efforts of
Davidson an Atoms, mining is done with the help of
modern science. The old prospector has been replaced by the
expert geology, whose knowledge of the earth is as accurate
(13:17):
as a surgeon's knowledge of the human body. And the
old miner with his pick and shovel has given way
to huge machines run by electricity. Weighing millions of pounds.
They scoop out whole carloads of war in one gulf. Yes,
the days of Davidson and Atoms are largely a thing
of the past, but the spirit which drove them on
(13:39):
still lives and continues to make the mining industry an
ever living adventure in research. And that's today's adventure and research.
Produced in cooperation with the Westinghouse Research Laboratory. These programs
(14:09):
are broadcast to Armed Forces personnel overseas through the facilities.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Join us again next week for another transcribed story of
science on Adventures in research.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
This has been a presentation of Otrwesterns dot Com and
we hope you enjoyed. Please take some time to like
and rate this episode within your favorite pot cast application.
Follow us on Facebook by going to OTR Westerns dot
com slash Facebook, and subscribe to our YouTube channel by
going to otr Westerns dot com slash YouTube. Become one
(15:12):
of our ranch hands and unlocks exclusive content. We want
to thank our most recent ranch hands, Steve and Technogod,
who joined us recently. YouTube can join by going to
OTR Westerns dot com slash Donate. Send us an email
podcast at OTR Westerns dot com and you can call
and leave us a voicemail seven oh seven nine eight
(15:33):
six eight seven thirty nine. This episode is copyrighted under
the Attribution Non Commercial share Like copyright. For more information,
go to OTR Westerns dot com slash copyright. Have a
great day and thanks for listening.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
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