RGINN
Gold Member
- Oct 16, 2007
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- White's DFX, White's Classic 1 Coinmaster, Nokta Pointer
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
My son sent me this carving pic from the Red Desert in Wyoming. Looks like a fish over 14 over a shovel. To the left of the fish head is maybe a W. In the direction the fish head is pointing about a 100yds. away is a Spanish olive tree. There are no other trees really in this area and Spanish olive trees don't grow there naturally. One local said birds brought the seed in. The tree got my attention, and no evidence of an old homestead around it. This area had a large population from about the 1850's til the turn of the century. Lot of mining activity and at one time 31 nationalities represented. We had an idea it might be a mine claim marker. Barren wasteland these days. In person it looks pretty old, best he can see is not recent, and not random graffiti. Told him I would run it by the best experts I knew on this sort of thing, and all opinions welcome.