Can anyone help me identify this.

[mtnman54901]

I bought a Garrett ads 3 from a gentleman in the area,I went out to some tracks here in town and was kickin up some dust till i got a good signal,
It was an old snuf can about 2 inches down and 3 inches across. I put it in my truck till yesterday. I remembered it and pulled it out last night and opened it. I found what looks like a mine claim of some kind, dated 1941. County of San Miguel.

 

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[packerbacker]

Don't know but it's a neat find!!

 

[Dihren]

1. Find mine
2. Dig up gold/silver
3. Get rich

Haha thats neat!

 

[smalltowngirl13]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Great items there!

 

[RGINN]

Well welcome mtmnman54901! I take it you're down there in Montrose. I'm up here in Summit County, Colorado. I don't know a whole lot about legal forms and how to claim a mine but that appears to be a legal paper, I guess a claim, and probably gives the location of the vein. Good chance that claim is still valid and there might be other markers. They may not appreciate you pokin around there, but lots of claims have been abandoned. It should show with what government entity those papers were filed, so start there. (According to the pics, it was filed as an amendment on Oct. 5, 1955)

 

[mtnman54901]

It give longitude and latitudes on it. I can still read them, as far as I can tell it is down by placerville.

 

[diggummup]

It give longitude and latitudes on it. I can still read them, as far as I can tell it is down by placerville.

Unfortunately so can all of us. Nice find but too much information for my liking.

 

[RGINN]

I was tryin to be a little discreet about that showin the location, which you can see. It's probably a valid and active claim, so I won't run down there and check it out. Same as trespassing. Look up the owners, they might be thrilled to sell it to you.

 

[Phanntom]

I found one of those about 20yrs ago. Found the two guys that owned it about a mile away...in the ground. With their graves that were within a small wrought iron fence there was a pedestal with a LA Times article sealed in it. Both were married with families but had spent more time prowling the desert together and working their claims so when they died, their families felt it only right that they be buried together...so there they were.

I took the Prince Albert can with the claim down to the San Bernardino County offices. They informed me the claim was as dead as they were because there was no record of actual mining for too long of period. When you make a claim you're required to actually do a certain amount of work on the claim to maintain it and none of that had been done, or at least recorded so they told me I'd have to start the process over again from the beginning. I never did anything about it. I was going to frame the claim for my office but lost track of it over the years.