June 4, 2012 Dear Members, - Goldhound Home Files/2012/may-junenewsletter2012.pdfMOTHER LODE...
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June 4, 2012 Dear Members, The weather has been wonderful but today as we prepare the June Newsletter it is raining and the temperature has dropped 25 degrees. The weatherman has indicated that there may be snow in the higher elevations, by this evening! Well we did plant the flowers and the rain will help them. THE ICMJ SUMMIT HELD IN PLACERVILLE OVER MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND WENT VERY WELL. For some of us instead of a 2-day event we were involved for 4 to 5 days. Don has written about this in his letter with pictures as well as great articles in the ICMJ. I want to acknowledge our great Goldhound Team of Volunteers and Nuggets. We could never begin to do what we do if not for all of you. From the bottom of our hearts you are all appreciated and are the BEST MEMBERS EVER! THANK YOU RAY DODDS AND GOLDHOUND NUGGETS! This year we were in a different area gold panning than last year and not as visible to the public as we would like. We were not able to teach that many people to pan but it did give some of us time to visit with each other for a change. The weather was warm so J.P. Korn offered his big tent and between everyone helping it was put up to protect us against the heat of the day! It seems the last couple of months all I have done is thank our Nuggets! Ray considers anyone that helps out at any event a real NUGGET! So that means all of you! Thank you! OUTINGS SCHEDULE – Don has added and changed some dates to the “Outing” schedule. Check this out often as weather could still be a factor. THE 16 TO 1 MINE UNDERGROUND GOLD MINERS MUSEUM PRESENTS TELLURIDES: A RARE MINERAL COLLECTION ON JUNE 23 RD AND 24 TH . Along with the Tellurides collection will be historical walking tours of Alleghany, Daily 11:00am & 2:00pm. - $10 per person. Also two permanent displays! “Mamie Swan’s Photo Album” and “Alleghany 1931-1954.” And a Raffle of a 16 to 1 Gold Quartz Specimen will be held from 10:00am to 5:00pm. We received a letter from Rae Bell, coordinator of the event that they need volunteers to help at the gift shop or sell- ing raffle tickets, so let them know if you can help. Call Rae at 530-287-3223, shifts can be as long or as short as desired. Email: [email protected]. Our outing schedule now reflects the Fathers Day weekend June 16th and 17th. Saturday June 16th will be Pennyweight Bar and further on up the North Fork of the American. Sunday June 17th will be a level 8 hike to Shirttail Creek from our property. Don will send an e-mail out on this shortly covering this week- end event. Our outing also reflects the August 16-19 outing. This will be overnight camping at Robinson’s Flat above Foresthill. Don will also cover that in detail later. RAFFFLE TICKETS: It is that time of the year! We hold our Annual Fundraiser Raffle on Labor Day weekend each year during our Panning Championships. We will be sending out 10 tickets for $2.00 each around 7/10/12. On that address label will be the next due date of your membership in the upper right corner. Our Raffle will be held Sunday, 5:00pm on 9/2/2012. This is our club’s important drawing as it helps pay for our insurance, Bear River Campground Fees, rental of Hall, and expenses. Thank you ev- eryone. Annie
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June 4, 2012Dear Members, The weather has been wonderful but today as we prepare the June Newsletter it is raining and the temperature has dropped 25 degrees. The weatherman has indicated that there may be snow in the higher elevations, by this evening! Well we did plant the flowers and the rain will help them.
THE ICMJ SUMMIT HELD IN PLACERVILLE OVER MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND WENT VERY WELL. For some of us instead of a 2-day event we were involved for 4 to 5 days. Don has written about this in his letter with pictures as well as great articles in the ICMJ. I want to acknowledge our great Goldhound Team of Volunteers and Nuggets. We could never begin to do what we do if not for all of you. From the bottom of our hearts you are all appreciated and are the BEST MEMBERS EVER!
THANK YOU RAY DODDS AND GOLDHOUND NUGGETS! This year we were in a different area gold panning than last year and not as visible to the public as we would like. We were not able to teach that many people to pan but it did give some of us time to visit with each other for a change. The weather was warm so J.P. Korn offered his big tent and between everyone helping it was put up to protect us against the heat of the day! It seems the last couple of months all I have done is thank our Nuggets! Ray considers anyone that helps out at any event a real NUGGET! So that means all of you! Thank you!
OUTINGS SCHEDULE – Don has added and changed some dates to the “Outing” schedule. Check this out often as weather could still be a factor.
THE 16 TO 1 MINE UNDERGROUND GOLD MINERS MUSEUM PRESENTS TELLURIDES: A RARE MINERAL COLLECTION ON JUNE 23RD AND 24TH. Along with the Tellurides collection will be historical walking tours of Alleghany, Daily 11:00am & 2:00pm. - $10 per person. Also two permanent displays! “Mamie Swan’s Photo Album” and “Alleghany 1931-1954.” And a Raffle of a 16 to 1 Gold Quartz Specimen will be held from 10:00am to 5:00pm. We received a letter from Rae Bell, coordinator of the event that they need volunteers to help at the gift shop or sell-ing raffle tickets, so let them know if you can help. Call Rae at 530-287-3223, shifts can be as long or as short as desired. Email: [email protected].
Our outing schedule now reflects the Fathers Day weekend June 16th and 17th. Saturday June 16th will be Pennyweight Bar and further on up the North Fork of the American. Sunday June 17th will be a level 8 hike to Shirttail Creek from our property. Don will send an e-mail out on this shortly covering this week-end event. Our outing also reflects the August 16-19 outing. This will be overnight camping at Robinson’s Flat above Foresthill. Don will also cover that in detail later.
RAFFFLE TICKETS: It is that time of the year! We hold our Annual Fundraiser Raffle on Labor Day weekend each year during our Panning Championships. We will be sending out 10 tickets for $2.00 each around 7/10/12. On that address label will be the next due date of your membership in the upper right corner. Our Raffle will be held Sunday, 5:00pm on 9/2/2012. This is our club’s important drawing as it helps pay for our insurance, Bear River Campground Fees, rental of Hall, and expenses. Thank you ev-eryone. Annie
French Hill and Hoboken CreekApril 30, 2012
I think this hike was rated as a level 9 and it came close to that! Six of us went on this trip and it was an interesting challenge. We started the exploration by driving down the Sliger Mine Road, at Greenwood, which is past the town of Cool. We parked at the end of the road and took a trail going around the mountain there. We passed the old Sliger Mine building site and then cut up the mountain on an old roadway of sorts. Our objective was to get up on the mountain where the French Hill Mine hydraulic cut went over the side and down into Hoboken Creek. We got there after hiking just about an hour. This placed us about 700 feet elevation above Hoboken.Standing on the trail looking down I spotted a reflection of water down about 80 feet elevation or so, and we dropped down at that point. It was very steep and loaded with poison oak. Ron Earl had some loppers and he cut our way down. Right off we found an old tunnel filled with water and below that the remnants of an old stamp mill!From there we worked our way down to Hoboken Creek and panned downstream for quite a ways. The gold was hit and miss. We did find some decent gold where we first dropped into Hoboken.Finally we came to a waterfall that looked pretty tough in getting around and we found a trail just above there that worked it’s way back around the mountain and intersected our original trail coming in.This ended our exploration effort. Quite a trip and one that we just might make again, with a few varia-tions! Don
Left to right: Richard Wetzel, Bruce Greenan, Ric Larson, Ron Earl, Paul Bestelmeyer.
French Hill and Hoboken Creek
These were the old reminants of stamps from the old mill. Every-thing had been removed from the site a long time ago. These stamps were left because they were worn out and of no value to anyone at the time. This old mill site location was quite a find for us. We’ll likely go back some time.
Don’s gold from the ravine. Small but very rough.
ICMJ Two Day SummitSaturday and Sunday May 12 and May 13th
Placerville
This event was actually much more than two days. Saturday and Sunday was at the Eldorado County Fairgrounds with booths and vendors, and the Goldhound Nuggets teaching gold panning. The April issue of the ICMJ magazine covered this event thoroughly. You should check out the pictures and articles in the magazine. Over 3000 people attended this event. This Summit was preceded by an all day hands-on field training on Friday May 11th at Brian Bar-tholomew’s Gleeson property in Iowa Hill. Then Brian held the same event the following Monday May 14th for a different group of prospectors. I understand he had almost 300 people attending the two days. Way to go Brian!Also, after the Summit I did two days of “Introduction to Underground Mining” here at our own property. Attendance was limited to 40 people on Monday and 25 on Tuesday. That went really well too. I had lots of help from my underground mining team. All of this activity was sponsored and coordinated by the ICMJ. This was the second year for this Summit and it was much larger than last year. It looks like this is going to become an annual event.The setup at Placerville was done on Friday and a team of Goldhounds assisted the ICMJ and it’s vendors in whatever way they needed. Thanks guys. Really well done.This newsletter doesn’t have any pictures from Gleeson on their two day event. I’ll have some for the next newsletter. I’ll let the pictures give you a better view of what went on. Thanks. Don
The Goldhound Nuggets panning setup at the Summit. We had lots of Hounds there helping out for the entire two days. The Nuggets taught about 150 people how to pan for gold. That’s super!
ICMJ Two Day Summit
We helped vendors unload and whatever else the ICMJ staff needed. I wish I had more pictures of the guys working. They deserve a lot of credit.
Annie and some of her crew getting setup. Mike getting the detector sign ready.
Picture to the right: George Wheeldon giving his presentation on “Hardrock Mines of the Mother Lode.” Don started out the Saturday seminar with “How to locate a promising location for gold pros-pecting.”There were two days of lectures starting at 10:30 each morning.
ICMJ Two Day Summit
The Nuggets at their center teaching gold panning.
ICMJ Two Day Summit
The Goldhound booth was very busy the entire show.
Mike and Jerry answered detector questions for two days!
Mike and Jerry had the busiest booth of the entire show! They also had one of the best gold displays!
ICMJ Summit
Part of the two day mining seminar held on Monday and Tuesday.
MOTHER LODE GOLDHOUNDS MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION P.O. BOX 149, FORESTHILL, CA 95631 FILL OUT & MAIL MEMBERSHIP APP. ALONG WITH YOUR CHECK/MONEY ORDER www.goldhounds.com - email: [email protected] - 530-367-2891 VM leave message. $40.00 Individual - $45.00 Family - Senior & Spouse (age 70+) $30.00, for l year, send check to above addresss. ( ) New membership or ( ) Renewal----Are you interested in the Exploration Team? ( ) yes or ( ) no
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SIGNATURE_________________________________________________ DATE____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DON’S EXPLORATION TEAM - EMAIL: [email protected] OR CALL 530-367-2891 VM You will receive an email and it becomes your option to go or not. A rating of 1-10 will be added, 10 being the hardest. You may not always find gold but Don is always looking for new areas to prospect. You should be in good shape as you never know where Don may take you. If interested in the team email Don to be added to the Expo Team. The email states where to meet and what time you will leave. This is for members only._____________________________________________________________________________________________NAME BADGES: CLUB NAME BADGES - MEMBER JIM KURY TAKES CARE OF OUR BADGES. PIN CLASPS FOR $4.50, OR MAGNETIC FOR $5.00. EMAIL: JMKURY@[email protected] _____________________________________________________________________________________________GOLDHOUND T-SHIRTS ARE NOW BEING PRINTED FOR 2012 AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE LABOR DAY WEEKEND. DANCING DOG PRODUCTIONS IN AUBURN SOLD THEIR BUSINESS TO AN-OTHER COMPANY. WE ARE LOOKING AT ORDERING HATS & LOGO’S IF WE HAVE ENOUGH INTER-ESTED. CHECK WITH TERESA AT THE RAFFLE TABLE FOR INFO OR EMIAL. _____________________________________________________________________________________FOR SPECIAL ORDER T-SHIRTS, SWEATSHIRTS, COLORS AND DESIGNS ALSO GREAT BUSINESS AD-VERTISEMENT WITH PERSONALIZED CREATIONS, CONTACT; DON NICHOLS, [email protected] OR (916) 384-7767 - WE HOPE TO SEE DON MORE IN THE NEW YEAR!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MEETINGS ARE HELD THE 2ND FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH AT THE AUBURN VETERANS MEMORIAL HALL, 7:00PM-9:00PM, 100 EAST ST. Take Hwy. 80 to Auburn, then Hwy 49 East, at the first stop light, turn right, go one block, turn right again. The Veterans Hall sits on the left, parking in the back, public invited.__________________________________________________________________________________________FOR SALE ITEMS - FREE LISTING IN NEWSLETTER FOR MEMBERS.. IF YOU HAVE ITEMS TO BARTER OR SALE SEND EMAIL OR NOTE AND WE WILL PUT THE INFO IN THE NEWSLETTER FOR 3 MONTHS._____________________________________________________________________________________
WE WILL BE ADDING EVENTS TO THE SCHEDULE MONTHLY, BE SURE WE HAVE YOUR CORRECT EMAIL. DON’S EXPLORATION TRIPS WILL BE BY EMAIL ONLY.
June 8 Goldhound meeting, 100 East St., Auburn Veterans Memorial Hall, 7-9 pm.June 16-17 Goldhound Outing, Father’s Day weekend, Sat.6/16 Pennyweight Bar & Sun.6/17 will be Shirttail Creek here at the mine. info will follow in email..July 13 Goldhound meeting, 100 East St., Auburn Veterans Memorial Hall, 7-9 pm.July 21 Goldhound Outing, info will follow in email and July Newsletter.August 10 Goldhound meeting, 100 East St., Auburn Veterans Memorial Hall, 7-9 pm.August 16-17-18 & 19 Annual prospecting weekend - Robinson Flat above Foresthill, info will follow in email.Aug. 30 - Sept.3 Annual Foresthill Heritage Event , State & U.S. Gold Panning Championships, Lumber- jack contests and much more. Flyer and email to follow, Foresthill Memorial Park will be available on Thurs. 8/30 after 2:00pm to 9/3 for camping. Volunteers needed.September 14 Goldhound meeting, 100 East St., Auburn Veterans Memorial Hall, 7-9 pm.Oct. 10, after 2:00pm, 11-12-13-14 to 15th (12:00noon) -Bear River Outing, GOLDHOUND MEETING WILL BE HELD AT THE BEAR RIVER CAMPGROUND OUTING ON Oct.13th. Veterans Hall will be posted closed on 10/12, Info in next newsletter with map.November 9 Goldhound meeting, 100 East St., Auburn Veterans Memorial Hall, 7-9 pm. December 14 Goldhound meeting, 100 East St., Auburn Veterans Memroial Hall, 7-9 pm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL EVENTSAugust 11 & 12 will be the Placer County Annual Tour of Museums. The “Nuggets” have signed on for this impor-tant Tour to honor our Museums in the Mother Lode Country. We will be teaching Gold Panning at the Gold Country Museum, Auburn Fairgrounds, from 10:00 to 4:00 both days. Come join us and dress for the 49ers!
OTHER CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONSRoseville Rock Rollers Gem & Mineral Society meets 2nd Tues. monthly, Roseville Fairgrounds, Garden Room, 800 All America City Blvd., www rockrollers. com or Box 212, Roseville, 95678 or call Florence, (916) 961-6868. email rockrollers @ hotmail.com. or WWW.ROCKROLLERS.COM El Dorado County Mineral & Gem Society - email [email protected] - 530-676-2472 or www. eldoradomineralandgem.org. Gold Country Treasure Seekers, a metal detecting club, meets 3rd Tues.mthly. at the Senior Center, 937 Spring St., Placerville. Info: contact Tom Lance, 530 626-6709. Gold Prospectors Association of America, meets quarterly in Sacramento.Next mtg.7/21/2012.Meets quarterly, for info, call Jim Hutchings, 530-367-5108. (INFO: WWW.GOLDPROSPECTORS.ORG OR 1-800-551- 9797) CALL TOLL FREE FOR ALL SHOW SCHEDULES. Club has claims and outings.Sac.Valley Detecting Buffs meet 1st Thurs. monthly, Sac.County Old SMUD Bldg. corner Elkhorn & Don Julio in No. Highlands, check out their website - www sacramentovalleydetectingbuffs.com.Roaring Camp Mining Co.- P.O.Box 278, Pine Grove, CA 95665, 209-296-4100, www.roaringcampgold.com Offers Field Trips and Company Picnic Packages, located at Clinton Bar in Mokelumne River CanyonUnited Prospectors meets every other month at outings, [email protected] Info 209-567-9987. Club has claims and newsletters every 2 months, meets at outings. UPI, 2401 E. Orangebury Ave., Modesto, 95355 - phone (209) 567-2370.Shasta Miners, meets 3rd Wed., 7 pm, at Moose Lodge on Lake Blvd. just up from Shopko on the left. info 530-623-0744, club claims, mthly. & newsletter. Public Lands for the People, 7194 Conejo Dr., San Bernardino, CA 92404, (909) 889-3039, WWW.PLP2.ORG- PLP continues to work on your behalf to keep public lands open. Donations are tax deductible.Gold Pan California, Gold Adventures, 1021 Detroit Avenue #D, Concord, CA 94518, (925) 825-GOLDSierra Nevada Mining Council: Carol Marshall, 530 272-5915,.Box 1567, G..V., 95945, email:miningcouncil.orgGolden Caribou Mining, a small-scale gold club, in Belden CA. Info: (530) 283-5141 www.goldencaribou.com16-1 Underground Gold Miners Museum - Box 907 Alleghany, email: [email protected] 530-287-3330 WESTERN MINING ALLIANCE - For more info or to volunteer contact [email protected] or www.westernminingalliance.org. They are not a club or social organization. They are miners fighting for our rights to dredge and mine! Help support those who support us!
SULLIVAN’S BLESSING. THEY ARE OPEN NOW AT 878 HIGH STREET IN AUBURN, PHONE (530) 823-9000. E-MAIL: SALES@SWMINING,COM - HEATHER & JOHN WILLIS, THE OWNERS, ARE THERE TO HELP YOU. FRANK SULLIVAN STOPS BY TO GIVE THEM ADVISE AND HELP! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MOTHER LODE GOLDHOUNDS NEWSLETTERP.O. BOX 149FORESTHILL, CA 95631(530) 367-2891
Junel 2012
TO:
Frank, finding nuggets on the
North Fork.
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