** Lost Gold At The Dead Man's Mine ** A Miners Journal **

[GhostMiner]

8 minutes ago, Cascade Steven said:

I'm with the crowd on this one - PLEASE don't stop posting.  I try to give as many likes as I can and I too really appreciate the fact that you are posting this diary and expending all of the effort to transcribe it.  It is truly a labor of love and we too (all of the readers represented by the 59.9k views on Steve's view counter) love it.  Best Wishes. ?

Not stopping. Just a comment about social media which I am not used to LOL. No worries.

[GhostMiner]

 AUGUST 5   1936

   Once again we had Whiskey Jack weigh up the gold this morning and saw 7 ounces. We were all happy but no one was happier than Jack. He was hopping up and down and threw his hat in the air. We all had a good laugh before we went to work. Jack came up to the drift with us and was offering advice before we went back in. He was saying to drive in a solid bar if we hit stubborn gravel and rock. Then sledge against the bar side to side to break things up. Once loosened then swing the pick. I tried it and it seemed to work ok and from then on rather than beating the pick over and over against a stubborn wall we used Jack’s method. 

   Eventually we started to encounter more solid material and the drift curled to the southeast. We were well into the fault and beginning to drift in a somewhat lateral direction but still going in on an angel. There were no large rocks or boulders to move, just gravel and small rounded rock. I broke some of the wall down and encountered a sloping area that contained mostly gravel and was on a grade of about 30 degrees. I started digging out some of it for a test pan. It was rich. Jacob and me were in there banging away at it and it contained the entire width of tunnel which was about 7 feet. We were digging it out and following the natural feature down. The roof of the drift did not drop with it so we were gaining in headroom. I could now stand straight up in the tunnel. After several hours I took another sample pan. It was full of course gold. Jack was hollering out encouragement and saying we were finding the big pot. By quitting time we had dropped about 4 feet and no sign of a bottom. We were slowed a bit but still ended the day with 162 buckets. I think they are the richest of this drift to date and tomorrow will tell if I am correct.

  TO BE CONTINUED ....................

[Pogo]

I generally don’t. But now you’ve mentioned it I’m hitting the likes for you.

 

Cracking tale, loving every post

[Muppet]

Sometimes I forget to like, as I'm scrolling forwards to see if you posted another entry..

[GhostMiner]

11 hours ago, Muppet said:

Sometimes I forget to like, as I'm scrolling forwards to see if you posted another entry..

Well you sure made up for it all at once LOL.

[GhostMiner]

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[flakmagnet]

Firstly a comment, at least to me, amounts to a super "like."

Secondly those two pictures are the best of the bunch so far, really intriguing and interesting.

Now, just in case it's not obvious, I'm hitting "like" in your post. ?

 

[GhostMiner]

1 minute ago, flakmagnet said:

Firstly a comment, at least to me, amounts to a super "like?"

Secondly those two pictures are the best of the bunch so far, really intriguing and interesting.

Now, just in case it's not obvious, I'm hitting "like" in your post. ?

 

Can't get one of them to rotate.

[GhostMiner]