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That looks like a lot of work BeanMan. It's easier when it's for your parents though.
Brian, I don't mean to speak for Rutnbuck, but what I think he may have meant was, they had to climb out the second story window and then walk bare footed three miles one way to school? (you know....the old sob story we all had to listen to as kids LOL)
Steve
Brian, I don't mean to speak for Rutnbuck, but what I think he may have meant was, they had to climb out the second story window and then walk bare footed three miles one way to school? (you know....the old sob story we all had to listen to as kids LOL)
Steve
But this was after you hand milked 10 cows and hauled the milk barrels down to the corner spot for pickup.
I have another story my Mom told us a long time ago, she went to a single room school house and there was one kid there that had acme really bad and the rest of the kids would always call him "crater face" and he would get mad as hell. One day a smaller kid called him that and took off after him to give me a beating but when the smaller kid jumped over the fence and ran across the open field where cattle were grasing, the acme kid tripped and landed face first in a fresh pile of Alfalfa Cow Pie and after he came back to the school yard to wash his face.
The next day when he came to school, his acme was almost all gone because of the acid in the "cow pie".
Brian
I have another story my Mom told us a long time ago, she went to a single room school house and there was one kid there that had acme really bad and the rest of the kids would always call him "crater face" and he would get mad as hell. One day a smaller kid called him that and took off after him to give me a beating but when the smaller kid jumped over the fence and ran across the open field where cattle were grasing, the acme kid tripped and landed face first in a fresh pile of Alfalfa Cow Pie and after he came back to the school yard to wash his face.
The next day when he came to school, his acme was almost all gone because of the acid in the "cow pie".
Brian
Rut,
Can't give you an answer about the service wires there to the house, but my guess would be that the power was out up there in the mountains back then.
As for the house, no the house is not in the family, my grandfather sold the place a few years later and moved down to south of Grass Valley and close to what is now USAF Camp Beale.
Those hills had two or three Gold Mines operating up there for a number of years and took MILLIONS out of the mines, the companies that is. Somewhere in my notes on the family history there is info on these mines and the names, the biggest one is mentioned in Sierra Gold History books, but right now I can't remember a name. I think one was the Two for One Mine, but not sure.
Brian
Can't give you an answer about the service wires there to the house, but my guess would be that the power was out up there in the mountains back then.
As for the house, no the house is not in the family, my grandfather sold the place a few years later and moved down to south of Grass Valley and close to what is now USAF Camp Beale.
Those hills had two or three Gold Mines operating up there for a number of years and took MILLIONS out of the mines, the companies that is. Somewhere in my notes on the family history there is info on these mines and the names, the biggest one is mentioned in Sierra Gold History books, but right now I can't remember a name. I think one was the Two for One Mine, but not sure.
Brian
Interestiong Brian
I don't know much about Ca. But I have been to Grass Valley and have a friend there that is a park ranger. For some old historical park on some river it was a gold camp I think. Kewl Story. I have chased gold from here to AK, It has been a lot of fun. Took me to some great hunting spots.
Rut
I don't know much about Ca. But I have been to Grass Valley and have a friend there that is a park ranger. For some old historical park on some river it was a gold camp I think. Kewl Story. I have chased gold from here to AK, It has been a lot of fun. Took me to some great hunting spots.
Rut
eelgrass
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Rutnbuck and Brian....there is still lots of gold in them thar hills! I used to prospect in Trinity Co. I still have my sluice box and gold pans. Had a 4" dredge at one time (home made). Lots of fun but hard work too! Rut, I would love to hear some of your adventures!
Steve
Steve
LAST EDITED ON Feb-10-06 AT 10:22PM (MST)[p]How about 40 0z days for 3 men in the Yukon. This lasted all summer. Or a 10 oz nugget it is in the Carson Nugget Casino.It is the largest solid nugget there.. I have mined MT UT YUKON AK NV> All Placer. State of the art high tech placer. Kewl eh I have a 40 ton an hour troumal. I have a two hundred ton per hr shaker plant in Mt. Near Alder Gulch. I could tell ya stories for sure. Had some great adventures. I will see if I can post a couple pics. it will take me a while cause I have to find them then scan them . I took a barge with 3 million worth of mining equipt to Nome Ak. In the yukon I was 70 air miles from the nearest road. We took the equiptment across rivers and the tundra in the winter what a cold sucker. Mining goes way back in my family my grandpa was Big John ya know the song. My mining ventrues have taken me places most people just dream of and I lived the life in the wilds when I was young. Took me all over the country to wild places and I have seen plenty of great mines and plenty of bad ones. Right now I have all my equiptment in a Gravel pit and hope to go back to the mines in a few years. Looking at some properties in Id and Mt. Where I can hunt fish and mine gold. My latest is like way kewl I found a lost cabin that is suppose to have a loot of 10000 in double eagles. Near Green River wyo. I have proven it is the cabin but havent found the gold yet. But I did find a lot of elk that no one knows about. It is really remote. I found it 2 years ago elk hunting. I will get ya a link to the story about my find. I will let ya know more. the first nugget i found was when I was 8 in the American River in Sacramento. If i knew how to post a video I would post a video of some gold.
One of the local prospector clubs has me as their guest speaker 2-3 times a year. The trinity sounds fun. What i did is to much like work. how about 2-3000 tons a day.
In the Yukon I was in one of the old klondike miners gost towns. What a hoot it was. As for now need to scoot. One thing for sure. I can make gold happen. I learned a lot on some one elses money.
Rut
One of the local prospector clubs has me as their guest speaker 2-3 times a year. The trinity sounds fun. What i did is to much like work. how about 2-3000 tons a day.
In the Yukon I was in one of the old klondike miners gost towns. What a hoot it was. As for now need to scoot. One thing for sure. I can make gold happen. I learned a lot on some one elses money.
Rut
LAST EDITED ON Feb-10-06 AT 10:26PM (MST)[p] http://www.earthoceanexplorations.com/sys-tmpl/brownspark/
LAST EDITED ON Feb-11-06 AT 08:01AM (MST)[p] Hope this is the link to the cabin
http://www.treasurenet.com/f/index.php/topic,15996.0.html
I couldn't get it to post but go here then Cache Finds. Then "Found cabin Browns Park lost loot 28k double eagles" Or try a search. I will chat later work needs me.
http://www.treasurenet.com/f/index.php/topic,15996.0.html
I couldn't get it to post but go here then Cache Finds. Then "Found cabin Browns Park lost loot 28k double eagles" Or try a search. I will chat later work needs me.
If you cant find it let me know and I will copy and paste.
About the Yukon what a venture. We were North of White horse yukon. Tons of Bear, lots of black, And one grizz that tore apart one of the trailors. He trashed the trailor big time. They ended up killing it. Doll and Stone Sheep and the fishing was great. We took Heavy equipment across the tundra in Feb. Wow we built Ice bridges across large rivers. If that isn't spooky. We would drill holes in the Ice and pump water out and let it freez till we had enough Ice to hold a D-6.
One day I headed out alone to go back to town in a pick up and I shut it off. Well it turned out the battries were dead. And It wouldn't start. 20-40 below. I ended up chargeing the battries by disconecting the fan belt and I used a chain saw, and removed the blade. Then I put the fan belt around the chain saw and charged up the bat.
Our camps were trailors we drug in. The only bear I ever killed was half way in my window. He was coming in to have bacon and eggs with me. Shot him at point blank with .357 wad cutters. The barrel was in his ear. This was a kewl mine we had consistant 30 - 40 oz days. I would have stayed up there but I was just under contract to provide and set up a recovery system. We found lots of gold and last I heard the mine is still going. We would fly to town for supplys and what fun that was. We would blast glaciers out so we could get to the dirt that was frozzen in June. I found a old Klondike miners underground stash. It was like a celler. It still had all the old tools pack saddles and snow shoes in it!! What a find it was. I remember one day I was helping pack up to load a plane to go to town. And I went to pick up a breif case. It had the gold in it. I could hardly pick it up. I thought they had drove a stake through the breif case in to the ground as a joke. But no it was full of gold. More later if you like.
rut
About the Yukon what a venture. We were North of White horse yukon. Tons of Bear, lots of black, And one grizz that tore apart one of the trailors. He trashed the trailor big time. They ended up killing it. Doll and Stone Sheep and the fishing was great. We took Heavy equipment across the tundra in Feb. Wow we built Ice bridges across large rivers. If that isn't spooky. We would drill holes in the Ice and pump water out and let it freez till we had enough Ice to hold a D-6.
One day I headed out alone to go back to town in a pick up and I shut it off. Well it turned out the battries were dead. And It wouldn't start. 20-40 below. I ended up chargeing the battries by disconecting the fan belt and I used a chain saw, and removed the blade. Then I put the fan belt around the chain saw and charged up the bat.
Our camps were trailors we drug in. The only bear I ever killed was half way in my window. He was coming in to have bacon and eggs with me. Shot him at point blank with .357 wad cutters. The barrel was in his ear. This was a kewl mine we had consistant 30 - 40 oz days. I would have stayed up there but I was just under contract to provide and set up a recovery system. We found lots of gold and last I heard the mine is still going. We would fly to town for supplys and what fun that was. We would blast glaciers out so we could get to the dirt that was frozzen in June. I found a old Klondike miners underground stash. It was like a celler. It still had all the old tools pack saddles and snow shoes in it!! What a find it was. I remember one day I was helping pack up to load a plane to go to town. And I went to pick up a breif case. It had the gold in it. I could hardly pick it up. I thought they had drove a stake through the breif case in to the ground as a joke. But no it was full of gold. More later if you like.
rut
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Cool stories! Neat website you belong to too.
I like the three "S" rule of the hardcore gold prospectors...
"Scoop - Sift - Shut Up!"
That's great! Sound familiar?!
Chef
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I like the three "S" rule of the hardcore gold prospectors...
"Scoop - Sift - Shut Up!"
That's great! Sound familiar?!
Chef
"I Love Animals...They're Delicious!"
eelgrass
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Rut.....It sounds to me like you are really close. Get a good metal detector and keep after it! The three S rule applies.
In my younger days, I was deer hunting in Trinity Co.CA. I watched this little buck and then several does top this ridge and over the top. I worked my way to the top to see where they went. It was steep and solid timber on the other side. I was about to turn around when I saw what I thought was a little clearing about 200 yards down the hill. As I got closer I could see that it didn't amount to much so I was about to turn around when I noticed what looked like a pile of rocks that were stacked neatly. It just looked out of place so I decided to check it out. The pile of rocks had moss growing on them and they were next to a hole in the ground about six foot wide and three feet deep. The whole thing was littered with leaves and pine needles indicating that whoever did it hadn't been back in a long time. I stepped down in the hole and scraped off a spot with my boot. There was a bunch of white rocks. I picked one up and it looked like it had some gold color so I stuck a couple in my pocket and left. I put the rocks in my top drawer at home because they were "cool" looking.
Years later a friend got me interested in gold panning on the creeks and rivers. It was then that I learned that all the gold in the river was washed down the mountain over millions of years. It originates quite often in veins of quartz high up on the mountain. I dug out my two white rocks and showed them to my friend. He about fell over! They were laced with pure gold!
It had been many years since I had hunted that part of the country. The very next week-end we headed to the spot. I couldn't even recognize the part of the ridge where I had been. A road was built on the ridge and both sides had been logged. We looked and looked but couldn't find anything. Later we took metal detectors and never found anything. I was up there about 5 years ago and it's so thick you can't even walk through there.
I've often wondered who it was that dug the hole originally and why they never returned. Guess I'll never know. Here is a picture of the rocks. Not very clear but you can see the gold. That's how close I was to the Mother Lode!
Steve
In my younger days, I was deer hunting in Trinity Co.CA. I watched this little buck and then several does top this ridge and over the top. I worked my way to the top to see where they went. It was steep and solid timber on the other side. I was about to turn around when I saw what I thought was a little clearing about 200 yards down the hill. As I got closer I could see that it didn't amount to much so I was about to turn around when I noticed what looked like a pile of rocks that were stacked neatly. It just looked out of place so I decided to check it out. The pile of rocks had moss growing on them and they were next to a hole in the ground about six foot wide and three feet deep. The whole thing was littered with leaves and pine needles indicating that whoever did it hadn't been back in a long time. I stepped down in the hole and scraped off a spot with my boot. There was a bunch of white rocks. I picked one up and it looked like it had some gold color so I stuck a couple in my pocket and left. I put the rocks in my top drawer at home because they were "cool" looking.
Years later a friend got me interested in gold panning on the creeks and rivers. It was then that I learned that all the gold in the river was washed down the mountain over millions of years. It originates quite often in veins of quartz high up on the mountain. I dug out my two white rocks and showed them to my friend. He about fell over! They were laced with pure gold!
It had been many years since I had hunted that part of the country. The very next week-end we headed to the spot. I couldn't even recognize the part of the ridge where I had been. A road was built on the ridge and both sides had been logged. We looked and looked but couldn't find anything. Later we took metal detectors and never found anything. I was up there about 5 years ago and it's so thick you can't even walk through there.
I've often wondered who it was that dug the hole originally and why they never returned. Guess I'll never know. Here is a picture of the rocks. Not very clear but you can see the gold. That's how close I was to the Mother Lode!
Steve
LAST EDITED ON Feb-11-06 AT 11:25PM (MST)[p] Nice Rocks.
don't get me going on hot rocks or Dino bones. Or I will have to tell ya about the dinosasor we found when mining in So Ut. I h had a couple like that. My x took them I guess she figured she got the mine and I got the shaft. I know of 2 places i need to get back and find hot rocks. Them are really nice specimans. I am just trying to figure out how big they are. Like they say there is gold in them darn hills and I know where some is and I am going to get it.
My recovery systems are high tech continious clean up. You dump dirt in one end and gold comes out the other.
Rut
don't get me going on hot rocks or Dino bones. Or I will have to tell ya about the dinosasor we found when mining in So Ut. I h had a couple like that. My x took them I guess she figured she got the mine and I got the shaft. I know of 2 places i need to get back and find hot rocks. Them are really nice specimans. I am just trying to figure out how big they are. Like they say there is gold in them darn hills and I know where some is and I am going to get it.
My recovery systems are high tech continious clean up. You dump dirt in one end and gold comes out the other.
Rut
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LAST EDITED ON Feb-12-06 AT 10:23AM (MST)[p]Very interesting read gentlemen.
Ahhhhh, to be a mountain man or a treasure seeker!
There are tons of stories of hidden gold in Mexico. I have actually heard
of companies that will strike a deal with old ranch owners and the like
to demolish homes.
See, way back then, people used to hide their fortunes (usually gold coins)
in holes dug in the ground or they would hide it in walls in their homes.
Well, only the person that hid it knew of its location and when they passed,
so was the "map". Well, there is always some recollection of where the treasure
"might" be hidden and stories of little kids "remembering" where gramps used
to go to bring back coins. Well, these companies strike a deal with these home
owners that whatever they find, half is theirs, but...they will destroy the house
looking for it. Going off the "legends" they don't always find treasure.
Sometimes they get lucky and sometimes they get REAL lucky.
My great grandmother had a home in Guanajuato which is Southern Mexico.
My Grandpa hid what was believed to be many gold coins in the house.
Well, as the generations passed no gold was ever found.
The house was made of adobe and had walls two feet thick. The coins could
have been anywhere. The walls would need repair and the new patching
wouldn't hold up as good as the original adobe. Especially in one corner
of the house. Constant repair was done to that corner and every time a
torrential rain occurred, it would need patching again. About ten years ago,
that home was sold. The new owners demolished the house to build
a new one on the land. They found gold coins in a ceramic jar.
About seventy five of them. Where?
You guessed it, right in the corner they patched up all these years.
True story.
Chef
"I Love Animals...They're Delicious!"
Ahhhhh, to be a mountain man or a treasure seeker!
There are tons of stories of hidden gold in Mexico. I have actually heard
of companies that will strike a deal with old ranch owners and the like
to demolish homes.
See, way back then, people used to hide their fortunes (usually gold coins)
in holes dug in the ground or they would hide it in walls in their homes.
Well, only the person that hid it knew of its location and when they passed,
so was the "map". Well, there is always some recollection of where the treasure
"might" be hidden and stories of little kids "remembering" where gramps used
to go to bring back coins. Well, these companies strike a deal with these home
owners that whatever they find, half is theirs, but...they will destroy the house
looking for it. Going off the "legends" they don't always find treasure.
Sometimes they get lucky and sometimes they get REAL lucky.
My great grandmother had a home in Guanajuato which is Southern Mexico.
My Grandpa hid what was believed to be many gold coins in the house.
Well, as the generations passed no gold was ever found.
The house was made of adobe and had walls two feet thick. The coins could
have been anywhere. The walls would need repair and the new patching
wouldn't hold up as good as the original adobe. Especially in one corner
of the house. Constant repair was done to that corner and every time a
torrential rain occurred, it would need patching again. About ten years ago,
that home was sold. The new owners demolished the house to build
a new one on the land. They found gold coins in a ceramic jar.
About seventy five of them. Where?
You guessed it, right in the corner they patched up all these years.
True story.
Chef
"I Love Animals...They're Delicious!"
Kewl Chef
My Aunt lives in a home in Marysvale that was owned by Butch Cassidy. The home has had several additions built on it. There is an underground celler with his name carved on it. I hate to say it but when she dies I am going to take a chain saw to the place.
My Aunt lives in a home in Marysvale that was owned by Butch Cassidy. The home has had several additions built on it. There is an underground celler with his name carved on it. I hate to say it but when she dies I am going to take a chain saw to the place.
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