Richard Flower was a lawyer, preacher, and doctor, before becoming a mining swindler.
Flower wrote that this rock formation in Arizona represented the profile of the Aztec prince Spenazuma, and marked the site of the lost gold mine of the Aztecs.
New York stockbroker Henry Clifford pretended to be the “Commissioner of Arizona” to sell shares in the worthless Spenazuma Mining Company.
When the mines at Spenzuma were shown to be worthless, the Spenazuma Company shifted operations to the now ghost town of Aura, and began another round of lies.
