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Sites And Gem Locations in Washington State |
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Written by Steven H Draper
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 13:54 |
Here's a list of old treasure sites, old forts, old battlefields, and gem-stone locations in Washington State:
nexium order nexium order Twenty miles south of Clarkston on the Snake River is where the Lost Shovel Creek gold Mine is located, in the county of Asotin.
nexium order Buried on the banks of the Grande Ronde River by the town of Mountain View is $43,000 in silver and gold coins. The location is around five miles west of county road 129.
nexium order There are only a few buildings that are still standing today to see from the ghost town of Jerry. In its heyday this town was a booming horse town. Located six miles southwest of Clarkston off of county road 12.
nexium order nexium order On the north side of the Columbia River at Plymouth and west of the toll bridge, bandits threw three chests full of gold bars into the river. In 1911 one of the chests was dredged up but the remaining two remain at the muddy bottom of the river.
nexium order nexium order On State 97 just north of Blewett Pass and around nine miles southwest of Cashmere, is the ghost town of Ble-wett. There are only a few cabins that to be seen today from this booming mining town in the We-natchee Mountains.
nexium order On Redtop Mountain which is between the towns of Blewett and Liberty off of the US 97 highway in the county of Blewett the gem hunter can find Blue gem agate at four different sties on the mountain.
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Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 14:00 |
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Written by John Terry
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 13:54 |
Newspaper editor prompts rush for gold in quartzville
Q: we'd like to know more about Quartzville near Green Peter Reservoir in Linn County. - Janet Lunclsten, Canby. A'- "Ho! For Quartzville!" declared the circular distributed Aug. 24, 1864, by Salem newspaper editor S.A. Clarke under a smaller heading, "Many got the gold mining fever."
"All persons who want to go to Quartzville will meet at the courthouse, armed and equipped, at 3 o'clock this (Thursday) evening. Everyman must furnish his own rations (say for 4 days) horse, and other necessaries gratis."
Editor Clarke, it should be noted, was an early stockholder in the "White BUM" lode during the Santiam River gold rush.
Oregon's most famous gold rush came, of course, in the early 1850s when, by some reports, virtually all of the state's able-bodied men hurried off to seek their fortunes in the gold fields in California.
Two areas in the state, Southern Oregon's Josephine County in the mid-1850s and Eastern Oregon's Powder River-Auburn-Canyon City domain in the 1860s, remain famous their short4ived, overpopulated and often riotous mining industries.
Others, from time to time, sparked similar activity, Quartzville among them.
Gold was first found in mountainous eastern Linn County in 1849, according to a 1960 account in The Oregonian of events there written by longtime Salem newspaperman and historian Ben Maxwell. But those who turned their hands to it earned only about $4 a day, "small pickings" to those with dreams of fortunes to be scooped up in California.
The area didn't really start to bubble until after 1860, when the Oregon Statesman newspaper in Salem reported miners pulling $2 in gold from each pan, and a display went up in Bill Griswold's general store purporting, to show ore specimens [ that would yield $5,200 a ton.
Not long after, I.R. Moores hauled in a sample of gold-bearing quartz he claimed would assay at $100,000 a ton.
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Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 14:01 |
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Metal detecting and land use regulations |
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Written by Ron Stockman, MLRC
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 13:28 |
A special report from the MLRC
by Ron Stockman, MLRC
(Reprinted from the Washington Prospectors newsletter August 1998)
Recently MLRC has received questions concerning citizen collectors using public lands for their sport. The type of questions being asked indicate there is some diverse information circulating as to the different categories of public lands and what can and cannot be done on these lands. Below MLRC attempts to clear up some of this confusion. The purpose of this release is not to attempt to address every nuance of taw or regulation nor every agency but to dispel the notion that these lands are closed in total to the citizen collector.
United States Forest Service (USFS): Often these lands are labeled as "National Forestry" or "National Forestry Service". To avoid problems in terminology those federal lands which are labeled USFS managed lands should be referred to by that title as most states have their own state forestry lands and the two are not the same. USFS lands are by legal definition not "public lands" in the true sense of the meaning. Public or unreserved lands are managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), about which we will discuss later.
The USFS came into being in the late 1800's and was placed under the U.S. Department of Agriculture because those lands which were withdrawn from the public domain and designated Forest Reserves or National Forests were for the purposes of supplying the Nation with consistent timber resources & good water. That role of course has expanded in the past decades but from the citizen collector point of view basic uses still remain in place. The USFS draws the largest number of complaints from public land users in many sectors.
USFS managed lands fall under the multiple use category of public lands which simply means national forests are open to a variety of uses and are not to be managed as parks of non-use. The sport of metal detecting is one of those uses. There has been some public allegation that USFS managed lands are open to detecting by permit only. While that is true in certain specially designated areas such as archaeological/historical sites the permit qualification does not apply to general USFS lands. Bear in mind, especially in the western states, that gold claims can be located on lands open within national forest boundaries for mineral entry and one of the recognized tools for gold prospecting is the mineral/metal detector. The collecting of mineral specimens is also allowed on these lands. However, it is also important not to swing too far the other way in thinking and now assume all USFS lands are open to the sport. Like every other agency the USFS has specially designated lands which are not open to the citizen collector.
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Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 14:03 |
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Directions for building of your own handheld electronic hole probe |
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Written by Dan Carey
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 13:27 |
Parts needed:
*AMPROBE metal detector (Grainger's PN 5U777) - ($20.00) by GB products...WIRE and PIPE detector..GPD-902 1 believe or HOME DEPOT A.W. Sperry PF-2a ($12.97) *12" piece of PVC 1/2" diameter water line - .50 *Two end caps to match- .34 *Dab of PVC glue (optional) *Squirt of solder -. 10 *4 pieces of about #20 wire-each 15" long- .35 *2 pieces 1/8" bolts 1-3/4" long- .30 *Nuts / star washer to match - .05
Tools needed:
*Soldering iron *hand drill with bits *wire cutters/strippers *screwdrivers regular and phillips *bench grinder (optional)
Work time:
*1.5 hour
PLEASE READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE STARTING>>>>>THERE ARE HINTS WHICH MAKE THINGS GO EASIER.
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Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 14:04 |
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Hydraulic mines operation in Oregon during 1932 |
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Written by Curtis D. Ropp
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 13:19 |
Mines without elevators
Norton & Nelson Norton and Nelson operated a placer on Galice Creek near Galice during the 1932 season. The gravel averaged about 12 feet in depth and contained nearly 20 percent of boulders over 1 foot in diameter and very little clay. Bedrock consisted of slate of medium hardness; it was rough and had a grade of one half inch to the foot.
Water was brought through a 1 1/2-mile ditch, 500 feet of flume, and 300 feet of 15-inch pipe. The effective head was 90 feet. The maximum supply was 1,000 miner's inches and the average 600; a minimum of 500 inches was required to operate the mine. During the 1932 season the gravel was cut with a no. 2 giant with a 3-inch nozzle and driven by a no. 2 giant with a 4-inch nozzle. Only one giant was used at a time. Most of the water supply was used as a bywash. The sluice boxes were 20 inches wide, 20 inches deep, and 10 feet long. Ten boxes were used; the grade was 3/4 inch to the foot. Hungarian and pole riffles were employed. Boulders were handled with a 2-drum gasoline hoist.
The washing season in 1932 was 150 days; 12,000 cubic yards was washed. Two men operated the mine, and an average of 80 cubic yards was washed per day. The labor cost at $4 per shift would be 10 cents per cubic yard; supplies would amount to about 2 cents per yard, making a total operating cost of approximately 12 cents.
Salmon Creek An innovation in placer mining was being tried in July 1932 at the Salmon Creek mine near Baker by John M. Start. The boulders were removed from the pit by a gasoline-driven shovel with a 1/2-cubic-yard dipper. The gravel contained a large proportion of boulders and clay which made it hard to cut and wash. Insufficient water was available to wash enough gravel per shift to make the mine pay unless other means of handling the boulders were provided.
A no. 2 giant with a 2 1/4-inch nozzle under a 150-foot head was used for cutting the gravel. Wash water coming over the bank assisted the water from the giant to transport the gravel to and through the sluice. As boulders were uncovered with the giant they were picked up in the dipper and cast to one side by the power shovel. When not otherwise occupied, the shovel was used in loosening the gravel. The power shovel had the ordinary type of dipper but was to be converted to a dragline with a clamshell or orange-peel bucket which would work to better advantage. One foot of gravel, which contained most of the gold, was left on the bedrock and at the end of a month's run was taken up and washed separately. The boxes were 26 inches wide and had a grade of 1 1/4 inches to the foot for 80 feet, then a grade of 1 inch to the foot for 100 feet. Riffles in the first 20 feet of boxes were iron rails placed lengthwise in the boxes, The next 60 feet were 4-inch pole riffles also set lengthwise. The function of the first 80 feet of riffles was to help break up the clay in the gravel. The lower 100 feet were Hungarian riffles made of 1 1/4- by 1-inch wooden cross strips iron-clad on top; the spacing was 1 1/2 inches between riffles.
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Last Updated on Monday, 12 April 2010 14:06 |
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