Blind.In.Texas
Bronze Member
a lot of times in the old old old days people hauled their trash up-hill for disposal. this is most often true because the roads on hills and mountains are most commonly below the houses. the trash, therefore, would be hauled uphill and far out of site so as not to be seen by the rest of the communithy or passers-through. each person typically hauled his own trash uphill. the further uphill it was hauled the longer it took trash to make its way back down the hill. this is evident in very wooded old growth hills and mountains too. my great-grandmother-in-law's place in the smokies above Ashville is the same way. i have found tons of old cars, key-can beers (spartan) all buried under the soil afew inches and all uphill from the house. hope this helps with the next time you go back. being that they all knew mining weas temporary i imagine that no one really organized a central location for trash, but, one never knows. FIND THOSE HOUSES!!!! GOOD LUCK NEXT TIME!
It was beautiful there and all that I thought of was the people there. Seems there were about 50 residents there that mined for gold. Apparently there was little recovered there during the time spent. It was literally like traveling back in time. There was NO trash there and no evidence of modern infiltration. My girlfriend found the top of a thick, light purple bottle that had broken from the rest of the bottle, but we couldn't find a dump in the town on our visit. It is there, just don't know where yet. I can't wait to return there to try finding these things! 
