Goldwasher
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Summer of ' 99
I was at Denali National Park, Alaska. I worked in Alaska every year From April to late September from '97 in Cordova for Ocean Beauty Seafoods, '98 '99 '00 and '01 I was in Denali My favorite summer was '99 I worked for a sub-contractor of the National Parks Service. I was 22 and employed as a " Natural History Interpreter " I got paid $ 15.00 an hour to sit at a drafty cabin and every two hours I taught 60 tourists about Gold mining in Alaska and then if they wanted they could buy a bag of dirt and pan it. 90% of them did. We got our dirt from a claim north of Fairbanks. Every few weeks we would get a load of dirt that we had to put in these canvas pay-dirt bags myself and two guys would have to fill the bags that had been emptied by previous panners we hated that part of the job. The bags WERE NOT SALTED!!!!! they screened material they were working at their op and screen it to an inch minus for us. We had a chalk board with spot price on it. Trending down from Like $ 280.00 to I wanna say $240.00 spot through the summer. I'm telling you I sent hundreds of people back to the lower 48 with 2+ DWT nuggets that they got out of a $ 12.00 bag of paydirt. Most of the pickers were average .2 grams. If someone got a crappy bag we would just give them another one. Upper management had no way to keep inventory on an unknown product. I think they just paid by the scoop I had nothing to do with it. Most people broke even and were ok with it. When someone a few pans down scored a nugget they were all happy for them. My favorite summer ever. I made thousands of people smile, hopefully educated and spread the fever a bit. I personally tought approx. 180 people a day how to pan for gold for four and a half months. With rusty 10" pans...I can pan better than 99.3 percent of people ever
. I will tell you something else...even pre 9-11....airport security has a huge interest in heavy film canisters secured with duct tape
This story was inspired by a picture of myself a friend sent me from that summer...I washed those pants twice that summer to try and be realistic... ha ha I'm wearing a watch 'cause there were no cell phones to watch the time with, when I knew a bus was due I would throw my watch in my pocket.
I was at Denali National Park, Alaska. I worked in Alaska every year From April to late September from '97 in Cordova for Ocean Beauty Seafoods, '98 '99 '00 and '01 I was in Denali My favorite summer was '99 I worked for a sub-contractor of the National Parks Service. I was 22 and employed as a " Natural History Interpreter " I got paid $ 15.00 an hour to sit at a drafty cabin and every two hours I taught 60 tourists about Gold mining in Alaska and then if they wanted they could buy a bag of dirt and pan it. 90% of them did. We got our dirt from a claim north of Fairbanks. Every few weeks we would get a load of dirt that we had to put in these canvas pay-dirt bags myself and two guys would have to fill the bags that had been emptied by previous panners we hated that part of the job. The bags WERE NOT SALTED!!!!! they screened material they were working at their op and screen it to an inch minus for us. We had a chalk board with spot price on it. Trending down from Like $ 280.00 to I wanna say $240.00 spot through the summer. I'm telling you I sent hundreds of people back to the lower 48 with 2+ DWT nuggets that they got out of a $ 12.00 bag of paydirt. Most of the pickers were average .2 grams. If someone got a crappy bag we would just give them another one. Upper management had no way to keep inventory on an unknown product. I think they just paid by the scoop I had nothing to do with it. Most people broke even and were ok with it. When someone a few pans down scored a nugget they were all happy for them. My favorite summer ever. I made thousands of people smile, hopefully educated and spread the fever a bit. I personally tought approx. 180 people a day how to pan for gold for four and a half months. With rusty 10" pans...I can pan better than 99.3 percent of people ever
. I will tell you something else...even pre 9-11....airport security has a huge interest in heavy film canisters secured with duct tape This story was inspired by a picture of myself a friend sent me from that summer...I washed those pants twice that summer to try and be realistic... ha ha I'm wearing a watch 'cause there were no cell phones to watch the time with, when I knew a bus was due I would throw my watch in my pocket.
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all that pannin' crap
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