7-5 Privy Dig

[Haldy]

Jim:

Glad to see that you and Gene have found yourselves a "good one"!! I'm very jealous!! Hopefully, you'll get into some REALLY good stuff before your're finished with this one. Still have hopes to get together with you guys this summer, but the time is just flying by. Good luck with your continued digging and I look forward to more pics. You and Gene are going to need to get yourselves a tumbler. I'm working on making one myself.

Denny

 

[RICKJJ59W]

JIM BO! good to see glass on the ground! nice stuff, remember you said you where going to knock that out in 1 or 2 days lol I am glad its lasting for ya,and I hope it goes 60s,I jinxed my self last time remember,70s going 60s,but we have to have hope, looks like yours might if you got a whole lot of use to go, I know you wanted to probe it and see how much you got to go lol. I did that once right through a W&T flask never again! it sucks I cant dig until next weekend IM up my dads now. Anyway good luck post the end take. Rick[/align]

 

[madpaddla]

Jim and Gene:

Great stuff there. Now is the good part. And bringing the kovels book. I Love It. Well done. Thanks
Madpaddla

 

[Jim]

Thanks, guys. Well, there will be no 60s and very little 70s in this pit. We hit the bottom today at 14 feet and about 1880. We found both of the seat-hole cutouts and hit a hard bottom. We got a good haul of bottles, and we still need to finish cleaning out the bottom so we may get a few more little things. Here is today's full haul.

 

[Jim]

This one sucked. A damaged THE MASON JAR OF 1872. It would have been a killer jar, but had a piece out of the lip and a huge spider crack on the base that came up the sides. Gene did keep the original lid, which was OK.

 

[Jim]

Here I am with a Lewistown Bottling Works blob soda and a boat ink. The sun's glare in my face made for a nasty picture, but it is probably an improvement over my normal look []

 

[Jim]

Yet another Lewistown Bottling Works variety that I had never seen before. Every time I think that I MUST have all of them, I find another new type. This one cleaned up mint after I spent about 20 minutes removing 2 inches of encrusted rock salt from the bottom of it.

 

[Jim]

Gene really liked the 1872 jar. Hopefully, we'll find a good one some day. I'll get some group pics of my share of the full haul up later. It ended up being a 14-foot stone oval from the late 1870s-early 80s up to the 1920s. After we finish it up tomorrow and fill and fix, it's off to find a new pit! ~Jim

 

[RICKJJ59W]

Ahhhhhhhhhh come on Jim you look dandy for being in a chithole all day Bhahaha!!!![8D] and that jar you got will look great cleaned up and put on a shelf, I don't see any cracks,[8D] Good digs, next week we hope to hit a 80s pit. Rick

 

[Jim]

Thanks, Rick. There's no place I'd rather be than an 1800s crapper [] Here are some of my favorites from this pit cleaned up. First is a KO-4 STRYCHNIA/ POISON, a somewhat scarce poison and the first good (non-common) one I have dug. ~Jim