Gypsy Heart
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In August 1896 at Camp McKinney, a dusty little B.C. gold mining town a man climbed into his buckboard with three gold bars concealed in his saddle bags which he put on the floor boards behind him. As he rounded a turn near McMynn's Meadows, about two or three miles from Camp, he jerked his team to a sudden stop. Barring the road, Winchester in hand and at the ready was a masked bandit. It has been suggested and after considerable investigation that the bandit buried that gold in one of the numerous old water filled shafts in the area. That gold has never been recovered and at today's prices the two remaining gold bars are worth over $190,000. But you say, there were three bars - true - but it was learned that one of the gold bars (the smallest) was used for the bandit's expenses.
Camp McKinney is deserted now, Even the ghosts have gone. Only a few piles of decaying lumber and an occasional log cabin mark its passing. A dusty, but good, gravel road leads to it from Rock Creek and passes through what was once its main street. Somewhere out there are two gold bars buried in a shallow hole, and should be easy to detect with a good metal detector. However, getting close enough to detect them may be a problem.
Another miner's claim is staked on an outcrop near the townsite of Fairview near Oliver. The claim consists of 2,000 acres where he builds a small cabin. Jeff Miller the miner shows relatives a coffee can full of gold nuggets and says he'll draw a map giving directions to the mine - to be given out upon his death. He dies of a heart- attack before being able to carry out his promise. Neither mine nor gold-filled coffee can have been located.
Camp McKinney is deserted now, Even the ghosts have gone. Only a few piles of decaying lumber and an occasional log cabin mark its passing. A dusty, but good, gravel road leads to it from Rock Creek and passes through what was once its main street. Somewhere out there are two gold bars buried in a shallow hole, and should be easy to detect with a good metal detector. However, getting close enough to detect them may be a problem.
Another miner's claim is staked on an outcrop near the townsite of Fairview near Oliver. The claim consists of 2,000 acres where he builds a small cabin. Jeff Miller the miner shows relatives a coffee can full of gold nuggets and says he'll draw a map giving directions to the mine - to be given out upon his death. He dies of a heart- attack before being able to carry out his promise. Neither mine nor gold-filled coffee can have been located.
