The age old ?....what am I doin here. Twain said two most important moments in life.....birth and the moment you find out why. The most respected fellow I ever knew said it was to help the others coming up so they didn't make the same mistakes we did. Waxing and waning philanthropic, or just the morphine talkin, either way I was a bit skeptical, tried tellin a teenager anything lately?
Won't take me long to dispense what few truths mules have taught me as they pertain to treasurin.
It's difficult for the modern treasure hunter to adopt the mentality that facilitates locating neat stuff. Whether your thing is coins,marbles,bottles,points......
People generally are unable to conceive a time or place where cobs replaced tp because paper of any kind was a commodity. So come w/me to a time when every farmboy had a sharp metal object in one hip pocket and a slingshot in the other. A community dump started in the early 1800's on a bed of limestone, on land that was home to bands of Native Americans, Spanish and European horse camps a treasure hunters paradise.
Circa 1870 a benevolent landowner donates a plot to a movement known as The Grangers 'Patrons of Husbandry' and a meeting hall/school is erected on the Butterfield stage route abandon post Civil War.
Now it's the 60's, my parents have purchased the land from the 86 yr old spinster who was born and raised on it....never knowing indoor plumbing ....the place had seen no improvement over the years. I was turned loose on 235 acres untouched by modern society......what a deal.
The impact a handful of adolescent children can have on an eco system should never be underestimated by scholars of the earth sciences. For years I was baffled as to the mysteriousness, not a point to be found or an intact piece of glass larger than a quarter. Then one day a turn of events tied it together...... Crock jugs and butter churns in shards, same scenario w/every layer unearthed. Not a few but every glass bottle, plate, pane lay shattered. A few tiny perfume bottles survived.
The points they kept the ag tools they modified,knapped gargoyles or genitalia and inscribed w/stuff like CH HearTs LW 1903 Sns 4ever.
Did you snap faster than I did. It wasn't until I uncovered the mass of marbles caught in the roots of an ancient cedar at the end of the wash that I did. Thousands of dollars of marbles shot at thousands of dollars of glass until the pieces lacked sufficient mass to break any further.
Won't take me long to dispense what few truths mules have taught me as they pertain to treasurin.
It's difficult for the modern treasure hunter to adopt the mentality that facilitates locating neat stuff. Whether your thing is coins,marbles,bottles,points......
People generally are unable to conceive a time or place where cobs replaced tp because paper of any kind was a commodity. So come w/me to a time when every farmboy had a sharp metal object in one hip pocket and a slingshot in the other. A community dump started in the early 1800's on a bed of limestone, on land that was home to bands of Native Americans, Spanish and European horse camps a treasure hunters paradise.
Circa 1870 a benevolent landowner donates a plot to a movement known as The Grangers 'Patrons of Husbandry' and a meeting hall/school is erected on the Butterfield stage route abandon post Civil War.
Now it's the 60's, my parents have purchased the land from the 86 yr old spinster who was born and raised on it....never knowing indoor plumbing ....the place had seen no improvement over the years. I was turned loose on 235 acres untouched by modern society......what a deal.
The impact a handful of adolescent children can have on an eco system should never be underestimated by scholars of the earth sciences. For years I was baffled as to the mysteriousness, not a point to be found or an intact piece of glass larger than a quarter. Then one day a turn of events tied it together...... Crock jugs and butter churns in shards, same scenario w/every layer unearthed. Not a few but every glass bottle, plate, pane lay shattered. A few tiny perfume bottles survived.
The points they kept the ag tools they modified,knapped gargoyles or genitalia and inscribed w/stuff like CH HearTs LW 1903 Sns 4ever.
Did you snap faster than I did. It wasn't until I uncovered the mass of marbles caught in the roots of an ancient cedar at the end of the wash that I did. Thousands of dollars of marbles shot at thousands of dollars of glass until the pieces lacked sufficient mass to break any further.
