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dima
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The various county GIS websites are a gold-mine of information about gold mines. 8-)

A long time ago I scraped all the plat maps I could get from the county DPW site. In case that ever disappears I'm attaching all of these to this post. These have the really old mining claims and are medium-useful in actually finding stuff, but are interesting to look at. Other areas of the DPW and the general county GIS site have even more stuff if you poke around.

And the reason I'm actually posting this: does anybody know how to read the coordinates off these? I can do it by matching up landmarks or section boundary lines, but that's crude. If I'm looking at the "Next Best Placer" claim on page 6 of "T 3 N R 08 W.pdf" then I know it's around the Iron Fork junction. Similar when looking for Jumbo placers on page 13. It's also around the section 16/17 boundary. How does one do better?
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Post by Tom Kenney »

This looks like the kind of stuff that is incredibly important, and should have multiple copies archived somewhere, but...dang if I know what to do with it. :)

Did you ever see that old Vincent Price flick "The Baron of Arizona"?

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I didn't. But it's over an hour long, so can I get a TL;DR first? Are there mines?

Also, it looks like you added

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tags around the youtube link. Try to edit your post, to do what the lazy person would have done: just paste the link without the extra tags. You might be pleasantly surprised.
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Ah, thanks. Will try next.

RE: the flick, true story, guy forges land grant deed, he and wife leverage to take over nearly all of Arizona territory. One of the best Vincent Price flicks, and a great non-stock western.
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I'll check it out!
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Tom Kenney wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:48 pm RE: the flick, true story, guy forges land grant deed, he and wife leverage to take over nearly all of Arizona territory. One of the best Vincent Price flicks, and a great non-stock western.
I watched it! Thanks for the tip. I kinda think the description of the real events is more interesting than the movie, since the movie is just silly in parts. But it was great to see. Thanks!
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