drjhostetters
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Well people...
The little woman and I got to go to our first dig last Sunday...a 'three holer" last used in 1958 (we hope)...looking for silver coins more than old bottles ...but you never know...it is on the site of an old sawmill that opened in the 1940's and closed in 1958 and burnt to the ground in 1959..(hummm...coincidence?...friction fire maybe? The insurance papers rubbed up against the mortage payment????) Any way we got a late start and only got down about three feet or so...nothing but an old "Prince Albert" tobacco can, and a Heildelberg beer bottle..broken (I think I did it with my little shovel..oops)...wifey got tired and started posey picking...so I closed the hole up with a piece of tin roofing and some planks for another day...(which brings up the question...How do you guys (or gals) deal with those monstrurous deep holes you dig in your privy diggings? You can't fill them back in and then dig them up again can you? Seems like a lot of work..????) Any way we took our metal detector across the road to the old townsite of Pondosa, Or., just private land now..and the few remaining foundations where the houses used to stand...and spent an hour or so "coin shooting"..only found 1 coin..not too old but the find was worth it just for the fun of it...a 1952 "wheatstraw" penny. Not much else but talked to the owner (a friend) and he filled me in on a few more details of the town site and where the dump was located and I have permission to explore it...so there is still a little sunshine on the horizon.
Maybe I will have more exciting news next time but Spring is trying to get here and I'm waiting for the mountain snows to melt so I can get up to an old mining ghost town that a friend turned me on to...
Good hunting my friends...[]
The little woman and I got to go to our first dig last Sunday...a 'three holer" last used in 1958 (we hope)...looking for silver coins more than old bottles ...but you never know...it is on the site of an old sawmill that opened in the 1940's and closed in 1958 and burnt to the ground in 1959..(hummm...coincidence?...friction fire maybe? The insurance papers rubbed up against the mortage payment????) Any way we got a late start and only got down about three feet or so...nothing but an old "Prince Albert" tobacco can, and a Heildelberg beer bottle..broken (I think I did it with my little shovel..oops)...wifey got tired and started posey picking...so I closed the hole up with a piece of tin roofing and some planks for another day...(which brings up the question...How do you guys (or gals) deal with those monstrurous deep holes you dig in your privy diggings? You can't fill them back in and then dig them up again can you? Seems like a lot of work..????) Any way we took our metal detector across the road to the old townsite of Pondosa, Or., just private land now..and the few remaining foundations where the houses used to stand...and spent an hour or so "coin shooting"..only found 1 coin..not too old but the find was worth it just for the fun of it...a 1952 "wheatstraw" penny. Not much else but talked to the owner (a friend) and he filled me in on a few more details of the town site and where the dump was located and I have permission to explore it...so there is still a little sunshine on the horizon.
Maybe I will have more exciting news next time but Spring is trying to get here and I'm waiting for the mountain snows to melt so I can get up to an old mining ghost town that a friend turned me on to...
Good hunting my friends...[]