Doc calls me the other day and wanted to know if I wanted to go mining? I ask him what kind of question is that anyway? I’ve been couped up for 2 weeks cause of the weather and this day there is a break in it so I said hell yes. He says well we are going to the mine that is 10 minutes away.I said I throught that the area was to small for 2 people? Well it was at first but I’ve done alot of road work and chopped down alot of brush so now we have a parking lot.

I load up, got gas ,got ice and munches and off we go. Now let me say this, for a man 72 years old, he did one hellva good job on the road and the brush. He went down the hill first and got his truck positioned where he wanted it and then it was my turn. I had my grandson with me so we proceed down the hill and stopped at the bottom and looked the area over to see where we wanted to work. Now my grandson has been going mining with me for 2 years and has listen quit well to what I was attempting to teach him. So I asked him, what do you think? Where should we start? He says I don’t know, lets climb the ridge over there and look it over first. Well we discussed the situation for about 10 minutes and he says that spot looks good. We are going to half to more alot of dirt but I think thats a good spot. So down the hill we go and I position the truck so that we have shade and unloaded it and proceeded to start moving overburden. We moved about 3 foot of overburden before we ran into rock or should I say boulders. It was at this point that we widened the hole, moved the boulders and cleared the dirt out so that bedrock was exposed. We ran 4 buckets and got 10 little pieces. Zach panned the material and got 3 little pickers(.3dwt total). Than he says, its your turn. I was ready. Well after planning all the material, we got 7 more pickers for a total weight of .92dwt. Mean while, Doc is digging away. We go over to see how he was doing and he had gotten several good pans. We left about 1pm, ran out of shade. It was a very good day for all the pictures are of our little hole and the gold.