The Many Lost Treasures of Mariposa, CA (Photos Added)

Hello Eagle,
Thanks for the story about Poor mans creek. I have visited Washington a few times and it is indeed a "blast from the past". Your story about the miners makes sense if you think about the early days of the gold rush. In the early days "The Yuba" area was Downieville on the North Fork where the riches were being discovered. Those miners might have prospected the lower Bear river and traveled up it before heading north to Washington.
Reading stories from the gold rush days I can imagine those miners hearing tales of "vast riches" being found in the "Yuba District" and even though they found huge nuggets where they were camping, they thought better finds are elsewhere.

It is beautiful country up there between the Middle and North forks. I explore "Henness Pass Road" once in a while and the view of the Sierra Buttes from there is spectacular.

Have you ever seen any of the old flumes of the "Madera Sugar Pine Co"? I believe they had the longest lumber flume in the Sierra's at about 50 miles from Sugar Pine to Madera.

Thanks again
Steve
 

strickman said:
truly fascinating video , amazing relics.
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That's what I thought too. The last link I posted on ancient artifacts disappeared the following day. I haven't found out why yet.

Hope you enjoyed it.

Eagle
 

Steve,

You're absolutely right. That's truly beautiful country. I use to have a partnership in 6 contiguous claims just off of the middle fork. And I really loved the area.
Right after Rodney and I formed the partnership, I made a trip up there to "prove" out the claims. When I got down to the river, I found 2 guys with a 8 inch dredge at the mouth of the creek where our claims were. They had brought all of their equipment in by helicopter. From what they said, they were doing pretty good. Their main complaint was; they weren't getting any fine gold, it was all in nuggets.

Sorry, but I didn't feel bad for them. :laughing9: :laughing9:

I've seen pictures of the flume years ago. And, on one of my trips to Madera, I was amazed at the amount of (dragline) dredging that had been done there. I would have expected it much farther North.

I've never had the opportunity to dredge or prospect the North Fork but alway hoped to one day. Unfortunately, there was always something else to do.

Eagle
 

Back online!! That's what I'm talking about. :hello2: :hello2:

I'll try to get another story posted this week, as on the 7th of Feb. I'm going to Quartzite, AZ for a couple or three days. With price of fuel on a steady rise, this might be the last chance I have to go there. But then, who knows? I might win the lottery just before the dollar collapses. :laughing9:

Anyway, I should be back in three or four days with another story for all of my friends.

Love and Respect,

Eagle
 

It's so great to be back online!!! :icon_thumright: :headbang: :hello2:

Eagle,

First, I hope my Email has stopped freaking out! :laughing9:. Next, I along with our T-Net Family are looking forward to all your memories.
If you go on your trip before you post the next story, Have a Safe and wonderful trip my friend!!! :icon_thumright:
 

trixie charger said:
It's so great to be back online!!! :icon_thumright: :headbang: :hello2:

Eagle,

First, I hope my Email has stopped freaking out! :laughing9:. Next, I along with our T-Net Family are looking forward to all your memories.
If you go on your trip before you post the next story, Have a Safe and wonderful trip my friend!!! :icon_thumright:
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Hey TC,

Yep, all fixed up. I had to outwit them. I accepted, then put my email address where yours was, then yours where mine was and haven't heard from them since. :laughing9: :laughing9:
 

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Golden Balls (Of Gold.)


Here is a little story that you might find of interest. Especially if you live in Inyo County California.

It was the summer of 1955, shortly before my 4 year enlistment in the U.S. Navy. I was at my brother-in-laws auto repair shop in Bishop. We were just kicked back talking, when this old Dodge Bros pick-up pulled up to the door and an old man got out. (Hey, I was only 18, anyone over 25 was old to me.) :laughing9:

My brother-in-law introduced him to me as one of his favorite customers. The old man sat down in one of the chairs and joined into the conversation.
My bro. in law, Sarge asked him what brought him to town and the old man answered, “Wall, I got me a lil gold I thought I’d sell so I can buy some more food stock”. “Looks likely to be a long winter and I’d surely hate to run out right in the middle of it”.

The old guy had come in with a small bag that looked like it had been made from an old gunny sack. He sat the bag on his lap and untied the draw cord on the top, reached in and pulled out a ball, about the size of a softball and handed it to Sarge. After my brother-in-law had turned it and studied it for a bit, he handed it to me and said; “Now here’s what gold looks like”.

Wow, I knew from reading and conversations that gold was heavy, but no way was I prepared for the weight of that ball. Thankfully I didn’t drop it. If that thing had landed on my foot, I’m afraid there would have been some serious damage done.

I asked why it looked like a bunch of different size wires pressed into a ball. The old man laughed and said; “That’s cause it’s wire gold”. “I have a little mine up in the foot-hills where I get this stuff”. “It formed in little hollow veins that was in the quartz when it formed, that’s why it looks like wire”.

I asked him if he had to blast it out of the quartz. He replied; “Naw, the quartz is so rotten, I just pry it out with this here old hunting knife”, patting the case knife on his hip.

He visited a few more minutes then stood up and said; “Well, I better get down to the assayers office if I’m going to get paid for this today”. He told Sarge that he’d be back before the first snow to get his truck “winterized”, then started it up and drove off towards the government assay office.

I went into the U.S.Navy shortly after that, and never saw the old man again.

I had been in about three of my four year enlistment when I received a letter from Sarge and my sister, telling me that the old man passed away, but before he did, he told Sarge where his mine was and told Sarge that he should file a claim on it as soon as possible. They said they had done so, but wanted to wait for my discharge before they went looking for it. As you can imagine, that last year passed more slowly than all of the previous three years combined. But,…………….the day finally arrived that I was back in Bishop.

But, I’ll tell you about that in a day or two. (lol)
 

Thank you T.C.. Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?? I would apologise for "leaving you hanging" but, as I've explained before, I do tend to over extend myself at times. :laughing9:
So, I write half of a story, then have to finish up, (or get started on) something else. It makes for a busy life. :help:

While I'm here, I was wondering if anyone is having these problems: When I come into Tnet, I have to login. If I leave and come back an hour later, (or even less,) I have to login again. Also, when I login, one out of three times, it will tell me my password is incorrect, so I have to enter it again.

If I am in the "Todays Finds" forum and without closing it, go to my email to check it, when I find a reply to a post and click on it to check it out, I again have to login to this thread even though I'm still loggedin to "Todays Finds".

Hope that this is understandable. In other words, for some reason, Tnet servers are not remembering me, so I have to login every time I try to enter.
 

Eagle, had similar issues with Firefox as my browser. Uninstalled, downloaded a new copy and re-installed. Problem went away.

However, every password I had saved was lost in the process and I have had to re-enter each of them at least one time since I upgraded.

Someone else recommended deleting cache and cookies, and then rebooting. Didn't work for me but it might for you.

Best of luck, and I'm waiting for the second half to start! (Your story of course.)
 

Bill-USA.........Thanks for the hints, but I've tried "cookies & reboot, etc, to no avail. I put my pc in the shop Fri. Hopefully, I'll have it back Mon. in time to post the final part of this story. :-\ I'm using a loaner/laptop right now, so I have to do "one finger pecking" as the keyboard is somewhat different. And it's a royal pain in the whoosis. >:( :laughing9: (I also found out that I picked up some "Malware".) :icon_scratch: :cussing:

Anyway, sorry for the delay, I'll get it up as soon as humanly possible.

Thanks to ALL of my readers for your patience!!!
 

Great Eagle! You might want to download and install an anti-malware free program like Ad Aware from Lavasoft. I use it and it is very effective at monitoring and stopping malware, trojans, spyware and anything else bad.


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Che'hahn Tah-Moe Randyman,

Glad you made it back safely with the trailer.

I should have called, between typo's and accidently "wiping" my post twice it's taken me an hour to get this far. :laughing7:

Chuck and I should be in Quartzite, AZ around noon Wednesday. It doesn't look like my computer will be ready before I leave here. All I have to decide now is to whether I want to take my Whites MXT with me. Hard decision when you're riding with some one else. :dontknow:
 

TheRandyMan said:
Great Eagle! You might want to download and install an anti-malware free program like Ad Aware from Lavasoft. I use it and it is very effective at monitoring and stopping malware, trojans, spyware and anything else bad.


:hello2: :hello: :notworthy:
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P.S..........I have Malware Bytes, which is suppose to be one of the best. Whatever this is, it's very advanced. It duplicated the Malware Bytes warning window then recommended that I run a complete scan of the system. As soon as I clicked on yes, my monitor screen went black and that was the end of my internet experiences. (Until it was cleaned out.) :laughing7:
 

SushiDog said:
Here you go Eagle.....this article was published in the Sacramento Newspaper....Wow!.....SushiDog

Published: Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011 - 12:21 pm

There is apparently still gold in those hills.

An anonymous Nevada County resident has turned up a nugget weighing nearly 100 ounces and will have it auctioned off in March.

The man, working on his own property near the historic mining town of Washington, turned up the nugget and some others embedded atop an ancient river bed that was mined during the gold rush.

The nugget was brought to Fred Holabird, a noted Nevada auctioneer and collector of historic artifacts who wrote that he screamed when he saw the monster rock.

Having a long background as a mining geologist, Holabird immediately recognized the area it came from and suspects it is the largest existing gold nugget from California, since most historic large finds have been melted down for bullion.

It's value, in gold alone, is estimated as approaching $140,000. However, Holabird believes it may be worth as much as $400,000 as an artifact.

It will be auctioned to the highest bidder March 15 in Sacramento.
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First post here on treasure.net.

Found your tales interesting

Thars gold in them thar hills - just not as much
 

First post here on treasure.net.

Found your tales interesting

Thars gold in them thar hills - just not as much
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Halito lookielou,

Thanks for reading my little contributions.

As far as gold, even though many metric tons of gold was taken out of CA, geologists say that about 90% of the gold has never been mined. The catch-word here is mined. In any case, with continual erosion, that still leaves a lot of gold for you and me. :laughing9:

By the way, WELCOME TO Tnet!!!
 

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