lets hear some michigan digging stories

[druggistnut]

Tom,
You should copy and paste Mike's info on that bottle on here. Most people have never seen or heard of it.
It's a super find.
Bill

 

[CanYouDigIt!]

What a great find! Never seen that one before. This bottle definitely has a Canadian connection not too far away in Chatham Ontario.

 

[hemihampton]

The Canadian Clark bros looks similar with the Wheels with wings. LEON.

 

[madman]

awsome stoneys guys!

 

[mctaggart67]

Fielder was also in Toronto. He may have had connections to Clark Brothers there. Clark Brothers were the first to have the winged wheel trademark. I've heard two things about their inspiration for the design. One, the Clarks had been involved in the cartage/livery business before getting into making soda water. Two, the Clarks were also active participants in bicycle racing. No matter, cool bottles all around. When the Skydome (Rogers Centre) was built in Toronto in the 1980s, hundreds of Clark Bros. hutches came out of the diggings. People were giving them away, though you could sell 'em to bottle collecting Red Wings fans, for obvious reasons. We also hit a small stash of Clark hutches in the same Sarnia, Ontario dump from which we dug up all those Port Huron beers referred to earlier.

 

[mctaggart67]

By the way, G.J. Fielder's surname is spelled as Fielder and as Fiedler, both on bottles and in historical records. It's a mystery as to the correct spelling.

 

[hemihampton]

My A.R Andrews hole in Detroit. LEON.

 

[myersdiggers1998]

Any ginger beer dug is a good one in my book.

 

[hunting262]

ORIGINAL: hemihampton

The Canadian Clark bros looks similar with the Wheels with wings. LEON.

Hey it says Clark

 

[ironmountain]

not much goodness digging yet...only been at it a few years...mostly an MDer.... been digging wife's family farm dumps. Many local (u.p.) sodas and milks and food jars. Started a cpl spots recently up there but weather went from 40 and lightly snowy on the ground to -20 with windchill.

As far as Iron Mountain area goes. Just the old Sagola hotel from late 1800's. Few newer bottles for the few times we've been there. Going there to dig the creek (3" water, 1+ ' of muck) that should be frozen or solid now. Elderly guy that owns the property said that when the foliage is down the creek and swamp area is bottle city.

All of the city dumps here have been capped and are now grass/trees.

I know quite a few places back home (Grand Rapids is my hometown) that'd be good to dig. Haven't been home in a few years.