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And remember, not only does one person acting irresponsibly ruin his or her reputation, but the actions of one can make an entire nation pay the price. An example of consequences in the form of a letter to the editor is featured below. Please take a look at how quickly all Americans were placed in a category as a direct result of the actions of one.

Because metal detecting is a highly technical hobby that is easily misunderstood, it is imperative that each person involved put his or her best foot forward at all times.

Not only should we utilize sound metal detecting practices while hunting in America, please realize that while on foreign soil, we're constantly being scrutinized.

Thanks Lost Treasure for your wonderful site. I stay on this one more than any. Very Very good site. I enjoy all the good stuff which is all you have. Thanks again.

Hi from Spain:

     I write you for comment on a problem the Spanish detectorist see with USA detectorists here in our beaches: After hunting it, they RETURN TO THE WATER ALL THE TRASH.

     All the years American an English detectorists come our beaches at these dates, first and mid-September to hunt it. OK, no problem for us... the beach is for all and good hunting... but in the last years, we can note some beaches become from the night to the day, littered with trash in September. Well, one thing can be an affect of the September storms or currents. But yesterday a friend goes detect to one of their favorite beaches and see four THer´s hunting in the water. Then he decides not to enter and look at another beach (this one is a small beach)... but rest a time, looking at how the Americans do "the job" and what kind of detectors and scoops used, etc...

     Was astounded he see how, when finish the hunt, they take from their bags, trash, all the trash and launch it to the sea.

     I don't have words to say what I think about it. But you can be sure these questions are now the "hot point" in the Spanish detecting forums the last few days.

A lot of us have American friends. A lot of us guide our American friends to ancient sites to hunt Roman and older coins and artifacts. But if the American THr´s who come here to hunt the beaches continue bad practices...well maybe in the future we put a sign saying "Detectorists welcome... but not American detectorist."

Please, can you write in your magazine about this problem? I think is very important all the detectorists worldwide feel and think and work with the right detection practices:

Fill their holes, leave and dispose in the right way their trash.

Here in Spain, the hobby is in expansion and a here a lot of people work hard teaching good hunting practices... and when a group of "*************" come here and do these bad practices year after year... well, our people say, "Why do such stupid things? See that American: He's returned the trash to the water for the next hunter to have an extra job!!!" or, worse, "I think the next year, I won't dispose of any trash. I'll put it in a big bag and when I see a dusty Yankee hunting our beaches, I'll take my big bag of trash and go for fill the beach in front of him!!!"

Can it be possible to work together to avoid these stupid ideas?

Best regards,
Ricardo Gasco
Webmaster of http://www.buscatesoros.net

Noteworthy Treasure News

Gilmer man to represent recreational users in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Forest Service has invited Keith Wills of Gilmer, Texas to Washington D. C. to represent recreational users in the rewrite of USFS rules and regulations to be introduced next year.

On Sept. 22 he will be sitting across the table from many of the USFS representatives as he hopes to introduce better ways for the public to enjoy more recreational freedoms on their lands.
“I hope that the plan I have put together will show them our interest in caring for our Public Lands and protecting them, yet still have the ability to allow taxpayer use of these lands for recreation.”

Wills said that for five years he has been fighting with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. in an effort to open up more freedom in recreational use of the lands they govern. In 2000 he had a bill introduced in the Legislature to modify TP&WD regulations and it passed the Senate. But it was refused a reading by the House recreational committee, he said.

The long-time activist said he would keep trying.
In March of 1989, Wills said, he was successful in creating the first “national policy” with the Army Corps of Engineers for recreational use of the lands they control. In 2000, he again revisited the Corps of Engineers in Washington D. C. to help modify problems found within the national policy they had created in 1989.

Wills has been the owner and operator of East Texas Metal Detectors in Gilmer since 1982. Most of his business is in repair of metal detectors, and much of his business comes from other states and countries.

Courtesy of the Gilmer Mirror newspaper

James hideout for sale in California
Outlaw fled to ranch and posed as cowboy

The days of Jesse James bank heists are long over, but it isn't too late to grab a piece of his hideout.

The ranch that was once the secret digs of the famed rogue is up for grabs. For a cool $19.5 million - a figure that would make the notorious outlaw blush - you can own La Panza Ranch, a 14,880-acre spread in San Luis Obispo County in central California.

The sprawling estate, now owned by publishing mogul Robert Petersen, has been called one of the largest privately owned ranches in California.

It contains 260 acres of vineyards, a 1,200-square-foot turn-of-the-century house that contains three bedrooms and two baths, and a 2,400-square-foot, four-bedroom guest cabin that was added in 1995.

There's also a bunkhouse, barn, helicopter pad - for speedy getaways - and five wells.

The San Juan River flows through the entire 7.5-mile width of the ranch, providing water to all areas of the property.

Deer, wild pigs, mountain lions, coyotes, wild turkey, ducks and other wildlife roam the ranch's 21 square miles just as they did in the late 1860s when Jesse James and his brother Frank took refuge there.

Jesse James and his brother fled to the ranch to hide out from the law. They posed as cowboys and worked on the ranch, which was owned by their uncle, Drury W. James.

A fellow ranch hand at the time, Charles Morehouse, claimed the pair lacked cowboy skills, such as roping cattle, but were good at picking off a jackrabbit from horseback with a six-gun, according to Bill Dellard's book, The Man Who Shot Mr. Howard.

The property has changed ownership several times since then: Drury James sold the ranch in 1869 to Jim Jones and Jacob Schoenfeld, who kept it until 1903. Schoenfeld's heirs took it over following Jones' death in 1903, and held onto it until its sale to Henry Cowell in 1917.

It changed hands several more times before Robert Petersen, who launched such magazines as Motor Trend, Hot Rod, and Guns & Ammo, purchased it in 1994.

Petersen renovated the property, adding the guest cabin and helicopter pad.

In the fall of 2001, he put the ranch on the block, asking $27.5 million.

Several conservation groups jumped into the fray, and exclusive negotiations with two of them came close to a deal, according to Duncan Lemmon, a principal broker at Lee & Associates, which is marketing the property.

In one case, the conservation group's funding fell through while terms couldn't be hammered out with the second.

As a result, the property was put back on the market last month at $19.5 million.

Lemmon said the price was cut to reflect that the glut of California wine in recent years has caused the value of vineyards to decline.

Courtesy of the Associated Press

How can I ask the opinions of your readers, about what detector they consider the best as far as low price, good detection, which can be used in wet situations?

This is all new to me and don't know what to look for. I live near the beach, but would like a detector I can use in mountain creeks also, before panning.

September
19-21—Join the Valley Prospectors Gold and Treasure Hunters Rendezvous at the Rancho Jurupa Park in the city of Riverside, California, off Mission Blvd. and Crestmore Rd. To register and more info contact: Alice Corey via email Alpennymae@aol.com and Trish Beuler at Tbeuler@msn.com The Club web site is available by logging on to http://www.geocities.com/valleyprospectors/
20-21—FMDAC Treasure Hunt, Coeur d’Alene Casino, Worley, Idaho. For additional information email cstreasure@centurytel.net or packratnest@webtv.net or call (509) 796-3952.
20-21—Midwest Coinshooters and Historical Club of St. Louis, Mo. will host the 3rd Annual Open Ultimate Beach and Waterhunt, Clinton Lake State Recreation Area, Dewitt, Ill. Contact via email abeach01@sbcglobal.net or send SASE to James Wurth, 67 Kings Dr., Florissant, MO 63034.
20-21—Genesee Valley Treasure Seekers fifth annual hunt, Java Center, New York. Website www.gvts.org or write Genesee Valley Seekers, 398 Chestnut Ridge Road, Rochester, NY 14624.

October
4-5—Granite State Treasure Hunters Club for Historic Preservation annual hunt at Lake Shore Farm Resort in Northwood, New Hampshire. For info visit the website www.gsthc.com or write Ronald Pinard, 51 Ox Lane, Epsom, NH 03234, huntmaster@netzero.net
4-5—Best of the Midwest Competition and Treasure Hunt, Roland Lewis Park, South 27th, Vernon, Illinois, sponsored by the Tri-State Metal Detecting Club. For additional info contact Michael Pope, 513 SE Third Street, Fairfield, IL 62837, (618) 842-2912.
10-11—Gem and Mineral Festival, Sunapee State Park, Route 103, Newbury, New Hampshire. Visit the Capital Mineral Club website at www.capitalmineralclub.org or call John McCrory at (603) 796-2152.
10-11—30th Annual Deep South Treasure Hunt, Smith Lake Park, Alabama. Call (205) 856-2629 or email lrmacky@aol.com
11—Special Charity Day Hunt, 100% of the profit goes to benefit the Roy, McKenna Food Bank, at Point Defiance Park in the Fort Nisqually picnic area. Contact Roy, McKenna Food Bank Day Hunt, P.O. Box 226, Roy, WA 98580 or call Rich Loveless (253) 535-1170 or email mrcoinhunter@msn.com
11-12—The Antelope Valley Treasure Hunter’s Society will be hosting their 17th annual High Desert Showdown at the Totem Pole Ranch in Littlerock, California. For more information contact Rick Wyatt prospectorrw@msn.com or (661) 943-1124. To view a hunt flier log on to http://www.qnet.com/~guy14kt/
12—16th Annual Open Beach Treasure Hunt, sponsored by the Deep Search Metal Detecting Club, Belmar Beach, New Jersey, between 11th and 12th Avenues. For more info contact Glen Gunther guntherg@optionline.net or call (732) 926-0028.
12—The Tulsey Town Treasure Hunter’s Club will sponsor the 13th Annual National Treasure Hunt at the Creek County Fairgrounds, Supulpa, Oklahoma. For information call Clark Shilling at (918) 274-3743 or write him at 10112 N. Bridgewater Circle, Owasso, OK 74055, email shillingec@msn.com 18—Fun in the Sand Beach Hunt hosted by the Memphis Metal Detecting Club at Sardis Lake, Sardis, Mississippi. For more information email Lloyd Barlow Lloyd@dotbarlow.com or contact Steve Davis, P.O. Box 502 Ellendale, TN 38029, (901) 372-2325.
19—Three Rivers Research and Recovery are having a hunt at The Bob Maxwell Field, Southside Park in Princeton, Indiana. For more information call Dave Perry at (812)-385-5676.
24-25—The American Metal Detecting Association (AMDA) and Clark County Parks and Community Services announce the Second Annual Metal Detectorists-Treasure Hunters-Prospectors Rendevous in Laughlin, Nevada. For more info contact Carolyn Garrett, 5043 Strasbourg Way, Sacramento, CA 95842, phone (916) 331-7931, email cgarrettwc@aol.com

January 2004
4--Mid-Jersey Research and Recovery Club presents the "Are You Crazy?" beach hunt in Seaside Heights, NJ. For info call Al Fidler at (215) 860-7598, or visit www.midjersey.com 16-17—47th Annual Gila County Gem and Mineral Show, Gila County Fairgrounds, Globe, Arizona. Contact Bill Morrow (928) 425-0194.

18—The Annual Bill Sweetland Memorial Hunt, sponsored by Jersey Coast Treasure Hunters’ Club, to be held at the John Taylor Pavilion, Belmar, NJ. For more info, contact Joan Ammend, 1311 Liberty Ave., Union, NJ 07083, phone (908) 686-7962.

Stumped on a treasure related question? Is your non-profit group hosting an upcoming event? Get the word out to readers around the world. Email the question to: managingeditor@losttreasure.com

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PRE-1900 DOG LICENSES--Top Dollar paid by serious collector. Also wanted 1900-1920 Washington D.C. tags and numerals. Diane Bandy (412) 635-9439 03/04

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DONATE your unwanted and broken metal detectors to the Girl and Boy Scout and local church groups. J.H. Kytle, P.O. Box 535, Colbert, GA 30628 11/03

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