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Date Posted: 11:51:49 04/18/02 Thu
Author: jim straight
Subject: Re: The Boone Tilford Log Cabin
In reply to: Randy Seden 's message, "The Boone Tilford Log Cabin" on 00:54:38 04/18/02 Thu

Hello Randy and All. Randy sure knows how to get my attention re the Boone Tilford cabin. Boones grandson, Dave Tilford is a leading busnessman man in Ely and sells the ICMJ and is trying to get enough interest to re-build the cabin as a historical site.

Randy, please be careful in digging down to the caliche. I'm speaking as a soil engineer--- who was nearly buried alive--- and pulled out just in time by the backhoe operator--- at Desert Hot Springs doing preliminary compaction tests in a trench where the gulf club in now found. Don't trust the bank.

This weekend I will be at the West Coast Prospectors & Treasure Hunters Rendezvous at the Rancho Jurupa Campground in Riverside. (Rancho Jurupa Park between Rubidoux BL and the Santa Ana River. Off of Mission BL and south on Crestmore Rd.) They have about 10-11 coin/competition hunts planned and I haven't missed one over the past 15 years.

The following weekend 26th, 27th, 28th; I hope (?) to be at the Valley Prospectors Burro Claim om the Rand Slope about 1.5 mile below the jail on the Randsburg-Mojave road. It is across from the old "Skipper" that was once; about 5-6 or more years ago in the GPAA Mining Guide, but now is controled by the 49'ers. I'm self-limited in driving at night due to catarcts.

The Rand Slope, east of the Randsburg-Mojave highway and west of Fiddler Gulch; starting at about the 2900 foot contour level and sloping northward to the Cantel Valley fault has several poorly defined old channels. Over the years I have detected the slopes of the small washes where caliche is exposed. The gold is well worn and may even have striations. The biggest one I have found was 270 grains bavk in 1990. The area is large and some on the Valley and West End claims (I belong to them and also Taft, PCSC and Antelope.) Lots of old cartridge lead, some of it old black powder balls. Occasionally a large black-powder shell casing can be found, such as a 47-70 Govt. I look for old-timer trash. The trashy areas may have been where the old-timers camped and near where they found gold by drywashing. There are shafts on the slope with chollars that are caving in; best to stay wide of them.

Why are small pieces of rusty tin cans so hard to disc out using the "iron-identifier" as found on several gold machines or if verified with a gold machine also having a coin machine disc. mode in low discrimination?

My Best to All, Jim

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