GhostMiner Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 This is a picture of the shaft Jacob was talking about. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedrocker Posted January 24, 2023 Share Posted January 24, 2023 5 hours ago, GhostMiner said: This is a picture of the shaft Jacob was talking about. Wow how exciting having Jacob in person for a tour guide. The guy is worth his weight in gold at this point! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 24, 2023 Author Share Posted January 24, 2023 8 minutes ago, Bedrocker said: Wow how exciting having Jacob in person for a tour guide. The guy is worth his weight in gold at this point! That old shaft looked creepy as hell to me. Those old boys were half crazy I think. Jacob told me some things I can't tell here. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedrocker Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 2 hours ago, GhostMiner said: That old shaft looked creepy as hell to me. Those old boys were half crazy I think. Jacob told me some things I can't tell here. PM me anytime I'm good with secrets. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geof_junk Posted January 25, 2023 Share Posted January 25, 2023 Your account of the contact with Jacob is very interesting keep it up. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 25, 2023 Author Share Posted January 25, 2023 The Eastern Drift Mine area with it's many slides that have buried the old workings Jacob was talking about. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 25, 2023 Author Share Posted January 25, 2023 Supposedly, back in the 1980's there was a man who discovered a stash of gold on one of the claims. I won't give the amount here but if true it was enough if converted into today's prices to buy a couple of new pickup trucks. This was told to a partner of mine by an unidentified person who mysteriously showed up on the mine one day about 8 yrs ago. He even pointed to the general area. He gave no other information and left. Very interesting. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 25, 2023 Author Share Posted January 25, 2023 April 24 2002 Part Four After looking over the old northern faultline digsites Jacob wanted to head over to the Eastern Drift Mine. I offered to go back to camp and bring the truck up as it was nearly a mile hike from here and the road was still usable over to that area. Jacob agreed and I hiked down to camp and drove the truck to the point where the northern road was not passable and Y’d to the east. The crew was waiting there for me and we drove over to the mine. When we got there Jacob climbed out of the truck and had a good look at the ground. He tried to find the original tunnel that went into the mountain but there had been many slides in that area over the years and he could only point to a general area. He said they had cut channels into the mountain and had found a rich kettle in there somewhere. Jacob said that if he could find the original drift then he might be able to find the kettle. He said the gold in the kettle was richer than anything the old crew had ever seen and he figured that there was still a fortune in gold sitting in that mountain. He said the crew was just getting started on working it when they were attacked by the army of thugs. Jacob told us he never found out who had attacked them and killed his partners. He walked back and forth across the base of the mountain trying to remember where the old mine was but wasn’t able to do it. It would take some serious work to find it by hand. Jacob said that the entire area up there had gold in the gravels and there were a few good hot spots. We would need to dig into the base of the mountain to get in behind the slides and overburden. Jacob took a seat on a log and just stared at the mountain. He rolled another smoke and took out his flask of whisky. We took a seat with him and he told us about something that wasn’t written down in the journal. Something about his brother Jed and his gold. TO BE CONTINUED ............... 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostMiner Posted January 25, 2023 Author Share Posted January 25, 2023 Here's another picture from the southern kettle. I'm in the bottom if you can't tell LOL. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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