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One of Gardeau's mysterys solved! Located the "lost" mineral spring.
Actually this is not "today's" find, but I got the confirmation today from a water chemistry lab of a sample I took in Gardeau this past July. The report reads: "We measured the electrical conductivity of the water sample from Gardeau, which is an indication of the total salts in solution, and it was very high....approx. 1000 uS, whereas normal drinking water is usually 50 or less. We'll have it analyzed for salts, so we'll know for sure in a week or so. But I would say that all indications are that you have the right stuff!" The right stuff, here, is a sample of the mineral spring water that Col. Noah Parker, of Gardeau, used in his Spa. back in the 1800's. The spring is what produced the "salt lick" near which "Blackbeard's" silver bars were buried. The spring is no longer visible on the surface. It now comes from a well which serves two camps in Gardeau. The residents of those two camps do not drink the water (which flows into their kitchen spigots), they go out to the nearby spring to bring in water. I tasted the water from their taps, it tasts like "metal?" Anyway, the legend says "they buried the silver near a salt lick." Could be, in all likelyhood, that this is THE location of that old salt lick. The lab promised to send me a more complete readout of the water sample in a couple of weeks.
Actually this is not "today's" find, but I got the confirmation today from a water chemistry lab of a sample I took in Gardeau this past July. The report reads: "We measured the electrical conductivity of the water sample from Gardeau, which is an indication of the total salts in solution, and it was very high....approx. 1000 uS, whereas normal drinking water is usually 50 or less. We'll have it analyzed for salts, so we'll know for sure in a week or so. But I would say that all indications are that you have the right stuff!" The right stuff, here, is a sample of the mineral spring water that Col. Noah Parker, of Gardeau, used in his Spa. back in the 1800's. The spring is what produced the "salt lick" near which "Blackbeard's" silver bars were buried. The spring is no longer visible on the surface. It now comes from a well which serves two camps in Gardeau. The residents of those two camps do not drink the water (which flows into their kitchen spigots), they go out to the nearby spring to bring in water. I tasted the water from their taps, it tasts like "metal?" Anyway, the legend says "they buried the silver near a salt lick." Could be, in all likelyhood, that this is THE location of that old salt lick. The lab promised to send me a more complete readout of the water sample in a couple of weeks.
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