Old Miner Don

I'm confused on the timeline. I would have sworn that the marked boulders were in the fiction part of this gold tale. So if not fiction this means that there's actual Spanish gold coins stashed up there somewhere. Plus a whole bunch of gold 😂. Nice!

The Trac hoe was there while Jacob was with you guys?

It all looks interesting to me!

PM me anytime I'm good with secrets.

Wow how exciting having Jacob in person for a tour guide. The guy is worth his weight in gold at this point!

Hopefully before it's all wrapped up you post a picture or two of Jacob. Or perhaps it'll never be wrapped up LOL.

So was it the deputy, the rancher or both that set them up? The deputy most likely and if so then the crew left back on the claim could be in a whoopass bunch of trouble right now.

I told you!

Yes I think gold and silver are going to spike like you said. The reason I think a trip to Mexico is a bad plan is this. They are a very tight crew of 5 men. If three head for Mexico they are no longer 5 men and will be very vulnerable to all sorts of danger. They won't be tight and they won't be strong splitting up like that. Especially the two guarding the camp, claim and treasure. Even with the deputies help they are goners. Would be easy to ambush them. The three going south are traveling hundreds of miles to a foreign country with foreign laws to confront men they have never met in a place that they know nothing about. Gosh what could go wrong there? I know these 3 are tough but they aren't bullet proof and probably don't even speak spanish. I realize it is fiction and I don't mean to criticize YOU and your efforts because you are writing every day and I don't mean to hinder that. Sorry for the lengthy comment Ghostminer and from now on I will just enjoy the ride and not comment much. Thank you!

Very dumb plan.

I like the crew. I just don't want them to die without getting all of that treasure and gold out of the ground first. And where are all of the women? They go into town to 'unwind'? And end up in the bar drinking more booze? Not my idea of how to unwind. In a hotel room with a fairly attractive woman would be more like it. Seems like these guys would have gotten tired by now of dating mano-uella. What do you think?

I just have to say this. The thug may not be too smart but he probably isn't any dummer than the gold mining crew lol.

You probably haven't lost your mind Jacob, but you guys better get to work on that eastern drift mine.

Lol! I thought for sure it was going to be that hairy man that was spotted at the beginning of Jed's journal. Don't remember if it was Sarge or John that got there first but it was them that fired off some warning shots while on watch duty one night. Good job on the story telling!

I'm glad John didn't shoot them.

So I leaned back in my seat as John rested the barrel of his BAR on my window sill and proceeded to remodel the top of that Cadillac. Right?

Yeah I knew it was Jed's brother doing the talking. But easy to forget his name when he is the one always doing the talking.

So there is Will, John and Hudson plus the guy doing the talking. Forgot his name. Not enough men to safely operate up there. Need at least two men on guard at all times. Time to find more help and the sooner the better.

Good idea giving that some thought lol.

Doesn't Sarge or John own a farm? I don't understand why they haven't used that farm for a place to bury some of that loot. Of course you would want to make sure that no one follows you lol. Seems like no matter what precautions you take in this story somebody is watching you. How in the heck Jed let someone sneak up on him and shoot him in the back of the head while he was burying his gold is almost unbelieveable. Good story though man! Keep up the good work and thank you!

Wow you really are putting in some time on this beach! What are you using for a scoop?

Happy 4th of July to you too Ghost Miner!! I was just catching up on reading a few pages of the story and it for sure is getting interesting. But it looks like Slim is bad news. They should have never let that guy join up. Death follows that dude like flies on crap.

Where are the rocks?

I miss Jed as well. Wish we had a photo of him.

I admit that I don't know much about core drilling. But isn't the drilling through gravel and not solid rock? And you are talking about drilling down 20' to possibly 50' or so? I guess it takes a big enough truck that can climb those hills and set up a tower with the drilling rig on it. Sounds like an expensive truck but the drilling part of it would be kinda easy compared to solid rock?