Let's take a step back 160 years: "thar's gold in them darn hills"
dizzyfoxx
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A little fun pictorial history and my NEWP piece of Civil War era San Fransisco gold....
My NEWP:
My NEWP:
...There's always time for coin collecting. 
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The middle person looks like Charles Manson
Alrighty then.
<< <i>Sorry to burst your bubble and wreck your history lesson, but that quote is from the Dahlonega gold rush. Really.
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Interesting:
So be it,
Sorry dizzy, did not mean to highjack your thread I just don't have any S mint gold to show, it really is a good post you have there.
<< <i>Sorry to burst your bubble and wreck your history lesson, but that quote is from the Dahlonega gold rush. Really. >>
Oops! Well, it's the only "Gold quote" I know and it sure seemed to fit nicely here. But, thanks for clarifying. My pictorial history lesson has turned into my own history lesson.
<< <i>Stop posting these awful 'denver' coins in a San Francisco gold thread. >>
I can swing both ways:
<< <i>Stop posting these awful 'denver' coins in a San Francisco gold thread.
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Ahh, but all gold is good, big, small, dirty, clean, S, D, C, P, D, W...........
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<< <i>Stop posting these awful 'denver' coins in a San Francisco gold thread.
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Ahh, but all gold is good, big, small, dirty, clean, S, D, C, P, D, W........... >>
Let's substitute CC for W.
Don't leave out CC.
OH MY GOD we are doing poor for a west coast gold thread. Och. My expectations!
I wanna see the 1854S double eagle. I know it's there somewhere. Pout.
<< <i>Aaargggh
Don't leave out CC.
OH MY GOD we are doing poor for a west coast gold thread. Och. My expectations!
I wanna see the 1854S double eagle. I know it's there somewhere. Pout. >>
This one?
bob
The round lake in the lower right corner with the small island in it is Mono Lake.
Bodie is in the mountains just to the northeast of this lake.
Aurora, the sister city of Bodie, is just a few miles away, across the border in Nevada.
The stamp mill ran six days a week, 24 hours a day. This is what crushed the rocks into a fine powder.
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The double eagle showed up. Aaaaahhhhhh.. I can relax now.
There's still Gold in the hills of California ....................... but you're not getting it without breaking the law.
A hobby of mine has been dredging for Gold the last 26 years. California just shut down all dredging state wide effective Aug 1st. They are tied up in Court for at least the next two years with the D _ _ _ environmentalists (I hope I didn't spell that right, darn jerks)
My tap water, supplied by EBMUD and obtained from waters located in the Sierra Nevada watershed has been tasting a little bit less "Fresh and Clean" than it usually does.
I am going to blame it all on the gold miners of 160 years ago (like those in the pictures posted in this thread). Gosh darn greedy white European transplants. They messed up a "pristine" and "pure" Sierra Nevada watershed in their lust for gold, trampling the environment and damaging the ecosystem, all in the pursuit of "obscene profits". The damage they have inflicted upon the People's Republic Of California
I weep for my gastrointestinal system and for the gastrointestinal systems of my family and neighbors. Hopefully national healthcare will soon arrive and fix everything.
Further, since I am drinking water of less quality than I should be receiving, government reparations are in order. I think at least 100 type sets of MS San Francisco Mint gold coins would be in order
When I receive these type sets I will hold a give away on the forums for half of them. Anyone interested? Priority will be given to other Californians who have to drink the same water I do, for they too are suffering.
P.S. It has been a long week and my mind is wandering far afield.
<< <i>Here is a stamp mill in Bodie. Bodie is just within the California border. It's a gold mine ghost town that is not within the yellow regions of the map in the first post.
The round lake in the lower right corner with the small island in it is Mono Lake.
Bodie is in the mountains just to the northeast of this lake.
Aurora, the sister city of Bodie, is just a few miles away, across the border in Nevada.
The stamp mill ran six days a week, 24 hours a day. This is what crushed the rocks into a fine powder.
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The double eagle showed up. Aaaaahhhhhh.. I can relax now. >>
I forget the story on how far away these stamps could be heard from, but it was a long ways away and Bodie was not a peaceful place to live due to these.
All you have to do to obtain ethically clean pure water is to transfer your property, children and future wages to your local Pomo tribal chapter.
Your water will then be pure.
<< <i>I forget the story on how far away these stamps could be heard from, but it was a long ways away and Bodie was not a peaceful place to live due to these. >>
I suspect that it was audible for at least a mile around. Certainly the whole town heard it. You would have to build a shack well away from town in a remote crevice to get some peace.
Drinking was a way to get to sleep.
The tour of the mill was excellent and highly recommended to anyone visiting this ghost town.
to lib half eagles!
bravo dizzy! that is a super tough coin and one that i would like to own
but have been priced out ever since i started in the hobby.
could you private message me and tell me what you paid please?
i have not been paying enough attention to auctions lately but i
am surprised i missed it because i am on watch lists at heritage
and ebay for example on such dates.
Forgot the Pomo tribe.
I will go with the Lytton tribe.
I can hang out with them at their Casino in San Pablo at the intersection of San Pablo Avenue and San Pablo Dam Road. I am sure the water in the Casino is very high quality (especially the fire water). The high quality of the Lytton water and that the fact that I am standing on their tribal land (improved with a Casino that was built before the tribe acquired the land and the Casino no doubt) will help me find my center and assuage the guilt I feel for having ancestors who came to North America from Northwestern Europe.
<< <i>Sorry to burst your bubble and wreck your history lesson, but that quote is from the Dahlonega gold rush. Really. >>
yup.
he would have been better off using "I have seen the elephant"
as that is pure cali gold rush lingo in reference to the hardships involved
in getting there. Not that it was invented during that time but came
to be widely used for that era.
<< <i>Adamlaneus.
Forgot the Pomo tribe.
I will go with the Lytton tribe.
I can hang out with them at their Casino in San Pablo at the intersection of San Pablo Avenue and San Pablo Dam Road. I am sure the water in the Casino is very high quality (especially the fire water). The high quality of the Lytton water and that the fact that I am standing on their tribal land (improved with a Casino that was built before the tribe acquired the land and the Casino no doubt) will help me find my center and assuage the guilt I feel for having ancestors who came to North America from Northwestern Europe. >>
Yes, of course. I forgot that one can always improve ones water quality with some indian gambling.
How silly of me to forget this rule.
What you see here is a retaining wall for an earth ramp. The 'business part' of the mill is gone; shipped of to the next mine and reused.
Turn around and you see this. I think it is a leach pit. If so, then pouring any sort of acid into this pit would be a very bad idea. Lots of 'pretty colors' in what appears to be some sort of 'salt'.
Some of the most interesting rocks out there aren't economically valuable. Look how this one was squished deep down in the earth...then coughed up and eroded.
to say that?
but dizzy has out done himself with this purchase. great great coin!
Is that not Oregon gold???
Southern Oregon around Medford, Grants Pass, etc had lots of gold. If fact there were nuggets
the size of Idaho patatoes in the Illinois River near Cave Junction. I would think that your gold
would have come from Oregon and not California. But, who can tell for sure??
bob
So. Calif. mountian Gold in quartz
100% Positive BST transactions
100% Positive BST transactions
100% Positive BST transactions
<< <i>Lakesammman you are such a show off! nice beaver btw. am i allowed
to say that?
but dizzy has out done himself with this purchase. great great coin! >>
Dizzy has already grown tired of this coin. He is selling it on the BST. He listed it the day after this thread.
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<< <i>Lakesammman you are such a show off! nice beaver btw. am i allowed
to say that?
but dizzy has out done himself with this purchase. great great coin! >>
Dizzy has already grown tired of this coin. He is selling it on the BST. He listed it the day after this thread. >>