Perhaps you missed the following correspondence? Left out are the parts discussing the legal ways to find gold. Click here to go to the original entries. flipper 01-18-2007 Been wanting to get a pan and some time. Whats the licence for, is ilegal to find gold? What would the value be of the piece on the dime? I would imagine a lot of creeks would carry gold, just gotta find traces and then look for the holes.
BrentG 01-18-2007 apparently there is supposed to be a "gold valley" up behind pitt lake Slumachs mine, should pan upper pit river and see what comes up. I noticed a claim plot tag at the entrance to six foot under when I was there.
flipper 01-18-2007 there were some interesting stories I've heard from some old guys about.
cookie 01-22-2007 yup good old slumac stories. pitt meadows city hall has a book on all that ado back in the day, pretty interesting stuff too. my old man brought it home a few years back and i had a chance to read it. it tells everything bout the area incliuding all the companies tryin to dyke the land and whatnot.theres even a story bout a farmer who plowed his field one year only to find a sturgeon living in the mud after years of being dyked that was pretty neat.
flipper 01-22-2007 Don't know but I still wouldn't mind looking up there. A prospector named Volcanic Brown made a few trips out behind pitt. always bringing back gold then was found frozen in the ice fields on his return with a sack of nuggets (not chicken).
BeerBaron Sr. 01-22-2007 the Pitt Lake gold stories are just stories,the Gold Commisoners knew this in the 1800's when Slumack was turning in his "gold find",he was actualy ambushing miners returning from the gold fields in Barkerville.
flipper 01-26-2007 Well you cant belive every thing you read but thats what it said in the book I read that was called Kwant stan or something like that.
