Hi everyone. I hope that your Thanksgiving Day was a blessed one. Ours was perfect, we were invited over to our only close friends to spent it with their family. We decided that our side of the family was to wacked to spent 2 days with(just a little inside humor) so we were going to go to Applebee’s. After dinner Jeff and I spent about 2 hours trying to get his router up and running on the computer, did I mention that Windows is a real pain in the a$$? After we finished, we did some prospecting and research work while the women for played with the baby.The next day Jeff and I went out to the placer claims, I needed a second opinion, as to what we should we should do. Oue goal was to prove one thing, either we went to far south or the seams have run out. The amount of gold that has come out of this spot is great. Doc has asked that I not share how much I’ve gotten so I’ll keep that promiss(but let me say this, it has paid for more then beans to eat and equipment to buy). Doc decided that we needed the hole larger so we could get a better picture of where we are at. So he and his tractor man enlarged it( apox. 75 feet long by 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep.

After studying all the pictures I’ve taken, I throught that I found my old seam or at least the apox. location of it. Jeff and I ran a total off 125 buckets yesterday from 3 different spots and out of the first spot which is where I throught my seam was, we ran 36 buckets of material and vacuum the whole area. Out of all that we got 4 little pirces of gold. For those of you who know where we are, I have decided that was enouth. Jeff and I moved west about 10 feet and worked out all the calachi and rock from the area that I’ve been working for the last 3 trips out. We again ran 36 buckets and vacuumed everything and got 4 more little flakes. We had lunch and discussed what we should do next. We came to the same conclusion, we went to far south and to deep. This was based on the photo’s I’v taken and the fact that the pile of material that was stacked up(about 3-4 tons) on the side when Ron dug the hole out had very little gold in it(we ran about 12 buckets and got 2 very small flakes). Now for alot of people, 12-14 flakes is alot of gold and it is its also very pretty, but, I’m use to 3-6dwt per trips(opp’s sorry Doc) so this shows me we overshot our mark. The road is in very good shape and I hope it stays that way. Jeff and I are not done, shoot we aren’t even close to scratching the surface. We just got to married to a hole and didn’t know when to quit. That hole has been good to us Doc, Jeff and myself) but I believe we overshoot the whole thing. So even oldtimers can screw up too. So newbie’s, hang in there because your not the only one’s to make mistakes.

Jeff and I are planning on moving up stream about 1/4 mile. We have 3 washes that feed this one and we want to give the connection point a good looking over. I’m going to post a few pictures from start to finish for all of you to get a good idea as to what we have done.

The old 29 prospector in 29