Paul in WA
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Hi everyone,
Well, the snow is gone, and the ground is thawed thanks to a freak heat wave, and about 3 straight weeks of rain. Now it's warm & sunny, I even had my Ninja on the road Friday afternoon (about 2 months early for motorcycle season).
I decided that I would head to the Ghost town that I had posted pictures of back before Christmas, and make that the first hunt of the season. I started the hike in about 6:30 in the morning. It's about a 2-3 mile hike in, so it took a little while to get in there. I didn't take my camera because it looked like it may rain , which it did very hard on my way out and probably would have ruined my camera. I was very excited on the way in, just imagining all the great stuff I would find. Just before I got to the town site, I noticed 3 Bighorn Sheep up on the hillside watching me, they watched me the whole time I was there, wish I had brought the camera now. It didn't take long after I started that I discovered that there is an awful lot of junk in the ground there. I guess there must have been some town law that anything metallic must be buried, and that all objects must be buried separately no closer than 12 inches from each other. I mean there was literally tons of trash there, I couldn't believe just how crazy the machine was going. After 3 hours I had become pretty discouraged and called it a day. I did find some wheat pennies, a Mercury dime, and a silver spoon, and some bullets. I also found a shell casing from a 32-20, which I don't think has been made in a long time. I also found a bank safety deposit box key tag form the "Guarantee trust savings bank of Los Angles" . I did a Google search on it, and that bank was bought out by another bank in 1909, and eventually became what is now the Bank of America.
Sunday morning I decided to go to Triangle park by my house. This is the park that I had posted pictures of in December, the one that use to have a road going through it with the row of trees still there. I did great here. I ended up with a pile of clad that my kids used most of to buy candy with at the store across the street. I also found 2 silver quarters, a Mercury dime, a silver roosie, some wheat pennies, 3 kids rings, a large copper bracelet, a gold anchor chain bracelet,, a religious medallion, some misc jewelry finds, 3 keys, a bottle cap shaped key chain with a key, and an arcade token. I just worked a small section, but I dug most targets. I see a guy detecting here once in a while, so I know he has already got the easy targets. I ended up with a lot of pull tabs, and shredded can pieces (what I call alien spacecraft parts). I plan to work this spot a little every day if I can because there is a lot of ground to cover
Well, the snow is gone, and the ground is thawed thanks to a freak heat wave, and about 3 straight weeks of rain. Now it's warm & sunny, I even had my Ninja on the road Friday afternoon (about 2 months early for motorcycle season).
I decided that I would head to the Ghost town that I had posted pictures of back before Christmas, and make that the first hunt of the season. I started the hike in about 6:30 in the morning. It's about a 2-3 mile hike in, so it took a little while to get in there. I didn't take my camera because it looked like it may rain , which it did very hard on my way out and probably would have ruined my camera. I was very excited on the way in, just imagining all the great stuff I would find. Just before I got to the town site, I noticed 3 Bighorn Sheep up on the hillside watching me, they watched me the whole time I was there, wish I had brought the camera now. It didn't take long after I started that I discovered that there is an awful lot of junk in the ground there. I guess there must have been some town law that anything metallic must be buried, and that all objects must be buried separately no closer than 12 inches from each other. I mean there was literally tons of trash there, I couldn't believe just how crazy the machine was going. After 3 hours I had become pretty discouraged and called it a day. I did find some wheat pennies, a Mercury dime, and a silver spoon, and some bullets. I also found a shell casing from a 32-20, which I don't think has been made in a long time. I also found a bank safety deposit box key tag form the "Guarantee trust savings bank of Los Angles" . I did a Google search on it, and that bank was bought out by another bank in 1909, and eventually became what is now the Bank of America.
Sunday morning I decided to go to Triangle park by my house. This is the park that I had posted pictures of in December, the one that use to have a road going through it with the row of trees still there. I did great here. I ended up with a pile of clad that my kids used most of to buy candy with at the store across the street. I also found 2 silver quarters, a Mercury dime, a silver roosie, some wheat pennies, 3 kids rings, a large copper bracelet, a gold anchor chain bracelet,, a religious medallion, some misc jewelry finds, 3 keys, a bottle cap shaped key chain with a key, and an arcade token. I just worked a small section, but I dug most targets. I see a guy detecting here once in a while, so I know he has already got the easy targets. I ended up with a lot of pull tabs, and shredded can pieces (what I call alien spacecraft parts). I plan to work this spot a little every day if I can because there is a lot of ground to cover
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