When checking a cave near Montell and Camp Wood years ago.......we were shown a pit that the landowner claimed was an old silver mine. I was dubious......but we checked it. And it was obviously an excavated hole...and not a cave. In southern Oklahoma (north of here, in case you were wondering)........there are legends of someone absconding with 20 ³jackloads² of gold....I have heard two versions. In one version, its the native Americans....and in another confederate troops. Anyway, at least one or two versions claim the gold was hidden in a cave. Not quite the same as a mine....but similar. Anyway....Windmill Cave near the Wichita Mountains has been one of the suspected locations. We mapped the cave in the late 80s and named a hidden room as the ³treasure² room....but the gold wasn¹t there when we left the cave.
On 6/25/09 10:58 PM, "Geary Schindel" <gschin...@mindspring.com> wrote: > I¹ve been to one of the silver prospects in Uvalde County. It is about 20 > feet long and 5 high by 4 foot wide. It is in an igneous intrusion within the > Edwards limestone on the edge of the hill country. It is unclear what the age > of the mine is but the land owner, who has had the property in his family for > more then a hundred years, said it wasn¹t worked by any of his family. It may > date back to pre settlement times or maybe even early Spanish explores. > Generally, it is thought that they carried the ore to the nearby river where > they pounded it into fine dust and then separated it by gravity (panning > method) Also, the Frio, Dry Frio, and to some extent, the Nueces rivers have > traces of gold in the sediments of the river (placer deposits). So, yes, > there is gold in them there hills. There is actually a description of a mine > near Concan that was active in the late 1800?s which had some pretty nice > assays of gold but very limited amount of ore. The mine was never very > productive from what I understand and was soon shut down. > > Geary > > >
