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Volume IV, Issue 28, May 6, 2003
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From the Desk of the Editor
It’s nice to know there are so many people willing to take the time to help a fellow treasure hunter in need of assistance.
First thing Monday morning I received a call from Bud Mathis, a reader who requested help with some writing he’d found on a mountainside near the Missouri-Arkansas state line. Mr. Mathis indicated he’d received more than a dozen emails from people offering assistance in translating the writing, some of it very fuzzy. Below is an updated photo that shows the writing more clearly. If you have any information that might be helpful, please email bhorlemathis@aol.com.
Each time we offer assistance to others, it shows the world what fine people treasure hunters can be.
Janet Warford-Perry
Managing Editor
Letters to the Editor
I read an article in the last issue of Lost
Treasure magazine that stated a treasure chest had been found in Death Valley.
I was really interested in this so I started looking around on the Internet.
I found that the chest was not authentic, but they did find the coins. Although
they didn't state how many. Here is the link.
http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/feb/stories/dvtreasure.html
Thanks,
Gary Melvin
Los Alamitos, Calfornia
A Little Help From Our Friends
I am a subscriber to you great magazine. Maybe you could supply a spot of advice concerning the matter I addressed to my local detector supplier at Pro Stock Detectors in Plainwell, MI. How do we try to understand and combat useless regulations that are taking away our freedom to pursue our sport, especially on public lands. Are there any legal associations helping to protect us?
Thanks,
Dennis Corbin
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Show Off Your Finds
My Strangest Find
The story goes like this. I live in Palm Beach County, Florida, and have for my whole life (44 years). In fact I’ve never seen snow. I bought my first detector in 1986, a Whites 2500D. I have spent a lot of time at the numerous parks and beaches and have found the usual, money, jewelry, silver Spanish coins along with other odds and ends and a couple of million pull tabs. My hunting partner and I work for the local School District, so we have unique opportunities to search properties that are normally off limits to the general public (with permission of course).
We stared this hunt like any other, with getting permission. The property, about 4 acres, was developed in the 20’s with residential housing. In the 1960s, a private school was built on that location. The property was to have a new public school built on it, so we jumped at the opportunity. It took us about a day and a half. The first day we started in the afternoon, after work and it was about 90 degrees. Starting at the front of the property, which was the play field. Knowing the history of the property, we knew that we were also standing on what used to be old home sites. The play field produced plenty of clad coins and only a few wheaties, no silver. The next day we started around 9 a.m. and nearing 85 degrees. We started around the caretaker’s house and cafeteria. We continued to find a lot of modern coins. Then I had a big hit, dug down four or five inches and started to pull out quarter after quarter. Twenty in all then started to find numerous dimes and nickels. I was having a good day but my friend wasn’t. It was starting to get a little hotter, now pushing 95 degrees. We decided to take a break, after all treasure hunting should be fun not work. We parked our selves next to a large tree. Of course I could not resist scanning the ground before I sat. I got a faint signal, the kind that I get with gold or lead. So, I asked my fellow TH’er who was using a White XLT what type of signal he got. His was telling us that it was a can. I couldn’t believe it, I had the discriminator setting would have eliminated it. So, trusting my years of using this unit. I began to dig, down and around the roots. Checked my signal again, yep, still there. Now close to my elbow, I hit something with my probe. Something metal.
Every one of us knows that little voice in our head that says “ Oh Boy” and the heart starts going. Opening the hole wider and wider to dig around this object seemed to take forever. Brushing the final remnants of my collapsing hole (the area we were in has very find sand), there it was a can. An old steel Pepsi can from the sixties. I new that there had to be something else in that hole. So, I scanned the hole again and here was no signal. Perplexed, I checked my unit and all of the settings. Everything was OK. Just then, I scanned the can, and there it was that small, soft signal. It was it the can. It wasn’t hard to remove the rust top of the can, to empty out the sand inside. A first I didn’t see anything, so I began fingering though the sand and found a small silvery lump. Wiping of the dirt, I found that I was holding a dental crown. To my astonishment it still had a tooth in it. As you can see in the photo, the tooth is smooth across the bottom as if it was sawn off.
I do some jewelry repairs on the side and have gold and silver testing kits. So I tested it, thinking it was the old silver / mercury amalgam. But it wasn’t. In fact it tested higher than 18K with the gold test solution. So, I took it to a friend that is a licensed jeweler. His testing showed it to be platinum.
I still try to imagine how the tooth came to be in a can, buried near a tree for probably close to forty or fifty years. It could not have been broken off, not with such a smooth cut and was not pulled or just fell out; it would still have the roots. There was one thought that came to mind. There is a funeral home / crematorium cemetery within a stones through away, but I don’t want to even think about that.
Chris B., West Palm Beach, Florida,
banninc@Mail.PalmBeach.K12.FL.US
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Calendar of Events
May
10—Central Pennsylvania Metal Detecting Club Open Hunt at the West Pennsboro Township Fire Company. Contact Robert Rice, RR#2, Box 54-1, Loysville, PA 17047.
10-11—Prospectors Club of Odessa, Texas, 40th Annual Open Invitational Hunt. For info contact wmcrane@hotmail.com or write PCOT, 1300 LCR 248, Colorado City, TX 79512-7512.
10-11—Southeast Washington Association of Treasure Hunters (SWATH) presents the 15th annual treasure hunt in Kennewick, Wash. For hunt flier send SASE to Kim Leverett, 551 Decker Rd., Pasco, WA 99301 or call (509) 545-8375.
10-11—Great Southern Beach Shootout, Grand prize 2003 pickup truck, to be held at The Plaza Resort and Spa, 600 N. Atlantic Ave. Daytona Beach, Florida 32118. For more information email peyton@cfl.rr.com or call (386-255-4659.
16-18—Old National Pike Treasure Hunt at the Funny Farm, off of Route 51 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Contact Duane Biller, 184 Grange Road, McClellandtown, PA 15458.
17-18—4th Annual Treasure Hunt, sponsored by the Minnkota Artifact Recovery Group will be at Memorial Park, Grand Rapids, North Dakota. For more info call Jeff Kehl (952) 890-6888 or email jkeh11963@yahoo .com.
17—The W.A.C.O. Club of Waco, Texas will have their annual hunt at the Speegleville Riding Arena. For more information or a hunt flyer contact Doug Ledbetter at (254) 848-4030 or Roy Rutledge at (254) 662-2712 or email at royledge@swbell.net.
17—The 16th Annual Spring Beach Hunt, sponsored by the Tidewater Coin & Relic Club in Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454-9512, email bdeml2@cox.net or call Bob Deml at (757) 474-0912.
24--GGPA/DEF Rally Georgia 2003 Metal Detecting Hunt sponsored by the Week End Gold Miners of Dahlonega, GA. For more info visit: http://www.weekendgoldminers.com/index.htm
24—Free hunt beginning at 11 a.m. and sponsored by DEF, WWATS and GGPA. So get comfy and tune into the Bugler's Shack www.buglersshack.com and hear all about it. Or contact kwills@worldnet.att.net for more details.
24-26—Indiana Classic Treasure Hunt sponsored by the Hoosier Hills Treasure Hunters and IRRS Clubs. Contact Mona Wray, 8376 N. 300 West, Seymour, IN 47274, email mona@hsonline.net
24-25—21st Annual Mayfest Fun Hunt sponsored by the Pilchuck Treasure Hunting Club at the Skagit County Fairgrounds in Mount Vernon, Washington. For information please see our website at http://pages.zdnet.com/stanrs/ pthc or contact Tom Pollino at 18330 26th Drive SE, Bothell, WA 98012 or email tompollino@hotmail .com.
24-25—Southern Ontario Silver and Gold Hunt, Stoney Creek Ontario, Canada. For more info contact Dave MacKenzie davemackenz@kwic.com or (519) 583-2769.
31-June 1—The Topeka Treasure Hunters will have an open National Treasure Hunt at Lake Shawnee near Topeka, Kansas. For more info write TTH at P.O. Box 1021, Topeka, KS 66601 or telephone Russell Broxterman at (785)256-2925.
June
7—The Roanoke Valley Coin and Relic club will host the 12th annual Open Hunt at Camp Alta Mons in Shawsville, Virginia. For more info contact Marilyn Epperly, 2136 Maiden Lane, SW, Roanoke, VA 24015, phone (540) 342-0153, or email grammaeppl@juno.com.
7-8—5th Annual Golden Rogue Hunt at the Valley of the Rogue State Park sponsored by the Rogue Valley Coinshooters. For more info call Frank at (541) 476-2371 or email at webediggers@echoweb.net or Blaine at (800) 254-6888.
7-8—Alaska Gold Show at Crow Creek Mine, about 40 miles south of Anchorage. For info log on to www.akmining.com/goldshow.htm or call David Rankin at (907) 344-1054.
13-15—The Nebraskaland Treasure Hunters Club’s 30th annual hunt. For flyers, contact Don Day, 304 N. Boggs, Grand Island, NE 68319 or email donbetty@netzero.net.
14-15—Spring Treasure Hunt sponsored by the Tri-State Metal Detecting Club, Hamilton County Illinois Fairgrounds. Contact Michael Pope, 513 SE 3rd St., Fairfield, IL 62837 (618) 842-2912.
14-15—Annual Lewis & Clark Expedition Hunt. Camping available. For further info contact Karen Smith (509) 922-9446 or email sslopes@ix.netcom.com or write Northwest Treasure Hunters Club, P.O. Box 141523, Spokane, WA 99214.
21-22—The Eureka Treasure Hunters Club of Denver, Colorado will be continuing its tradition of hosting an annual national treasure hunt, Rush to the Rockies, near Blackhawk, Central City, Colorado. For complete hunt information visit www.geocities.com/eureka-thc or call Ron at (303) 466-0453.
21—Down-N-Dirty Diggers will host their Spring Open Treasure Hunt at 9350 Indian Bluff Road, Georgetown, Indiana. Email wooley@aye.net or phone (812) 366-3558.
28-29—Gold and Treasure Show at the Chelan County Fairgrounds in Cashmere, Washington. Contact Carl Pederson at (509) 884-6940 (after 5 p.m.) or email repete@nwinternet.com.
28-July 5—Treasure Week 2003 at Whispering Hills Campground, Shreve, Ohio. Contact Jill and Carl McFeeders, (330) 364-1608 or jcseeker @raex.com
Notable Club News
Our
club is fairly new, just coming up on our three-year anniversary, but we're
moving right along. Over these past two years we have tried to visit or have
our meetings at some of the smaller museums in our area.
This not only brings more awareness of these "off the beaten path"
historical places, but also lets our members see historical artifacts from
the local area. Sometimes we can even have some our "finds" identified
by the people who work at these museums.
We have visited the John Hutchings Museum in Lehi, Utah,
the Midvale City Museum, Sandy City Museum, and the Stan Sanders Utah Bottle
Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah. At many of these museums the tours were conducted
by the owners, who were for the most part, the people who actually collected
most of the items in their inventory. The knowledge these people have is incalculable!
We have also had many fine speakers come to talk at our meetings,
some have been our own members, who have interesting stories to tell. Come
join the fun, to contact us, our email address is: utahtreas@aol.com
Thanks,
Bill Glodowski, President, Utah Treasure Association
Dave Kyte, Vice President
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