Send YOUR Thoughts & Ideas For Next Issue!
The Diggins' Are Great For Waybill Folks!
Get ready to bite yer' lip in consternation, for not
being the one to find THESE! But be very glad folks are sharing these stories. They
sure don't have to! Our ''take'' on this, at Waybill, as you well know from our
books and articles ... is ... KEEP A ZIPPED LIP!
However, there is great protective
factor here ... first of all we don't WANT the gory details such as locations,
people's names, or even names of entities and institutions. We aren't looking
to ask you to reveal your Adventure prospect, and perhaps ruin it for yourself ...
we want to hear whatever YOU want to tell. Period.
There are many other things you could send, as well ... I've received jokes, lovely
poems, Treasure Tips, and I suppose the list could be endless! You send it, I will
do my darndest to publish it. You don't want your name on it? Just tell me
that!
Okay, here we go! I'm even going to format this to look like the original
E-mails
:-))
I'm doing a bit of editing on these, adding caps and punctuation, to make
them easier to read. E-mail is notorious for being quickly written and not
ready to turn in for your homework paper :-)) ... Other than that, these are
word for word. My comments begin with ''LCB''.
===================================== LCB: My hope is that these notes will inspire everyone, especially the coinshooting or treasure hunting newbies in the group. These things really DO happen. Treasure really IS out there, and everyday people find it ALL THE TIME! For the experienced in the group, my wish is that you will pick up a new idea or two. It helps a lot to see other people's points of view, and how they take action, once they've researched and think they've nailed down a prospect from the wide-world of 100% overview, to the ''ant's eye view.'' Lookin' that ol' treasure find RIGHT IN THE EYE! From A Reader who said this about the Waybill Free E-Book, 100 Tips ... "good e book." And then he proceeded to tell me his antics and all I could think was: what a great book, somewhere down the road!! ===================================== CHILDHOOD MEMORIES AND OLD CHIMNEYS from an @acsol.net reader Also remember as a child the old fruit stand no longer there, the place where the carnival used to set up. No one has coin hunted it. Running around town, several houses have been torn down, now vacent lots. There is an old chimmney down the canyon. It was a stage coach stop. Hunted it once, want to go back with my new dfx and see what happens. A lot of it is BEING AWARE of places to hunt. Went to a county office. They had an old map on the wall, 5' x 4'. It showed all the old school buildings, parks etc from many years ago. This summer I will coin hunt these and send you some photos. If they are published with a town name I might lose my coinhunting areas. I want to hunt them first and then do a story. When its warm I will get a good photo of the chimmey that's still standing. ===================================== LCB: Excellent tactics! This is the format I am looking for. These are real stories from real people about REAL TH'ing leads and occurences ... and it gave nothing away. But I am betting others out there got as excited as I did when I first read the mail. Makes me want to grab my detector and head on up the road!! The next one is from Dick Oakes, who is editor for the Denver- based Eureka! Web site. He said he got that put up in October of 2001. Like Waybill, lots of great stuff out there, but none of us have been a livin' on the Net that long! I suggest you take a hop over there, because Eureka! has a lot to offer. Check out his archived newsletters... lots of great info. He's at: Eureka! Treasure Hunters Club http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/9000/ ===================================== IN ONGOING DISCUSSIONS OF METAL DETECTORS, METAL-DETECTING CLUBS, AND OTHER THINGS ON YOUR SANTA'S WISH LIST ;-) DICK WRITES (IN RESPONSE TO A QUESTION BY A READER WHO WROTE LEANNE, AND I SAID GEE I DUNNO, BUT BET DICK DOES!!): Howdy again! There are several people in our club who use Big Foot coils. They are so efficient that some clubs around the nation are banning their use in their large planted hunts because they consider them unfair to other hunters. Our club decided that big coils don't shoot coins; people shoot coins. (Hah! I just made up that phrase! Damn I'm good!. Gotta start using that as an e-mail signature--see below!) If you are new to detecting, my two-cents-worth would be to NOT get a Big Foot until you are completely familiar with the workings and vagaries of your detector. In fact, I'd suggest that your second coil be a smaller coil for use around fences, metal playground equipment, and hard to reach places--always learning those pings and zip-zips that are indicative of specific targets and their depths. But then, most of what I know is from what I read, having spent so little time out in the field in the last two years (three times in 2002!). Good hunting! Dick "Big coils don't shoot coins; people shoot coins!" --Dick Oakes, 2003 ===================================== LCB: I thought this was a great tip, Dick. Your coinshooting of recent past sounds like my driving habits for the past couple of years. When you work online, so, where do you go?? But, this advice on the big coil and especially about getting to know your particular machine's characteristics and ''moodiness'' for lack of a better word, is GREAT! ===================================== TALE OF THE FOUR BEARS (NO GOLDILOCKS) from Jim, an @aol.com reader Hi Mr Carson I just read the story about the Three Skeletons Mine near Bear Creek. The story centered around Durango. The problem is there are 4 Bear Creeks within 25 miles of Durango. The story really does not give any clue to which Bear Creek is the one in the story. I was just curious if you had any info on this story as far as what Bear Creek the story refers to. ...thanks for any info...Jim
 Look what Jeff Steele discovered: I just had to let you know what I found on the weekend. I live in the Sacramento area and decided to go nugget shooting on the north fork of the Yuba River, just a few miles above Downieville. Using the topographic map from your package, I located an exposed tertiary channel half way up the side of a mountain. Searching the exposed bedrock, I got a loud signal. It took over 45 minutes to chisel my target out of the cemented gravel. It was well worth it though. My reward was a 3.5 ounce nugget! Thanks for those maps! Jeff Steele, Sacramento Ca. |
+++ And Glenn Carson replied:
The area around Durango is some of the roughest country you will find anywhere. Steep, dissected ups and downs, almost no flat spots anywhere. Yes, it could be any one of those Bear Creeks, and to make it worse, it could be a tributary to one of them. That's the kind of area it is, that is why there are still unrecovered bonanzas in those mountains. I feel sure there are ledges just as good as Spaniards and Anglos ever worked, untouched, unseen. I have miner friends who think so, and I believe they are right. It is a harsh place, a person best be in excellent condition to explore it. Weather shuts one out for about half the year, or close to it. Not much help, that's just the way it is. If you find that or another bonanza in that area, ... you DESERVE it. HGC Read report: www.waybilltoadventure.com/SuccessToolkit/Ancient_Deposits_Modern_Wealth.html ===================================== LCB: ;-) ... that's my Dad! In short: GO for it (just, he doesn't want to tag along, and esp. not in winter :-) This last entry sure had me goin'. I thought this was a real big feather in our TH'ing friend's cap! To receive not just an okay, but a blessing? Alright! ===================================== NOT JUST PERMISSION BUT THEIR BLESSING! from an @chesapeake.net reader Am on my way out the door to do a field test for Tesoro on their new De Leon I.D. detector. Let your dad know that i just wrangled an exclusive permission to detect almost 600 acres of farms & woodlands that are owned & operated by the Mennonites here on the east coast. They are going to take me back into the forest & show me "several" old homesites !!! Gotta go !!!!!!!! [[[ ... and a later E-mail ... ]]] [[[ ... I asked his permission to publish his story ... ]]] Sure !!!!!!!! Go ahead & use it. Like you say I can't see where it would do me any harm. Like i say loose lips sink ships !!!!!!!!! no loose ones here. P.S. Retrieved 3 dated "objects" this evening in a couple of hours of scouting around one of the farm sites. 1890, 1925, 1930. C ya. ===================================== LCB: LOVE the story, and love the ''loose lips'' reminder! Above and beyond my astoundment (hmm. is that inglish?) ... over and beyond how astounded I am over this small story ... I would like to add my dos centavos (I just moved back to NM and am practicing, ya'll) ... Doesn't it seem almost too easy? I am betting these nice folks have some knowledge of hidden somethin' or other ... and they are hoping this will trip the lid? Ahhh. These are the stories that keep us polishing the coil, eh? One last entry, actually ... There is a real talent amongst you, out there. I've received many poems from several people. This one is from a special new friend up by Canada. I thought this writing was tailor-made for Waybill ... it expresses to me, that the written word may be the only thing that ties us all together, here in our Internet space ... but it IS the map to treasure. =====================================
I send my thoughts For you to see Of who I am Of what I can do We all share a vision Of what we want Things that would be ideal They way we talk Or how we express ourselves If my written word Was the only way to see me Would that make me less |
Or if my face were the only
Thing to see
Would that make me less
Giving
Is what I do best
As my words
Are like a map
To the treasure
Thats buried
Deep in my soul
~@~
Gil -- 11.18.2.11.32PM |
There's GOLD In Them E-Hills ... and there's STILL Gold In Them MOUNTAINS!
Great luck with ALL of your searches ...
On the ''E'' and UP in those hills!
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Time ...
one of our greatest gifts.
Don't ever waste it, or throw it away. |