Mattie Earps grave site and the old town of Pinal

[BARGuy]

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[Desert Digger]

I am still alive and well and when the weather cools down a bit, I will be back at the old town
swinging my detector. It was only 108 today, so it is starting to cool off. I have done some
research, and have come to the conclusion that people living there had to bathe somewhere.
So, I am going to detect along the route that the water flowed away from the processing
plant. There had to be people cleaning up in the water. There is a small stream of water
that still flows from an underground pipe in the middle of the creek. Looks like a good
place to look for old coins that people lost when they took off their clothes and washed them
or jumped in the creek for a bath. I don't like walking around in the brush when the weather
is still so hot. Rattlers hide in the shade during the day, and most of the time they will give
no warning. Step on one and you will wish you had stayed home and done something else
besides metal detecting. The Salt river should be shutting down about the end of October.
That is when the best gold will be found. All the people that lost their jewelry while tubing
the river will be wishing they would have stayed home too. Happy hunting to everyone
and may the price of gold keep rising.......

 

[hunterinthesky]

welcome Desert Digger. Great Job on the photos. Top notch research.

 

[johnnycat]

Nice photos. Looks just like a lot of our New Mexico places.

 

[Desert Digger]

Wonder what happened to Mrs. O's posts?
Not far from this site is an old mine that someone dug under an ancient
river bed. I played around a bit near the entrance, but the roof looks to
spooky for me to walk into the horizontal shaft. The roof is made up of
small river rocks that crumble and fall if you touch them. The roof is
about 5 feet thick, but just doesn't look safe. I didn't live this long to die
by doing something stupid..I took my recirculating sluce down there and
threw some dirt into it, but didn't turn up anything interesting. The area
is close to Picket Post where I have dug some gold using a dry washer.
The area I use to use my dry washer at is now off limits to any vehicles.
You can access the area by hiking or horse but I don't like hiking and
don't have a horse, so just SOL. Also near this place are some old Indian
diggins. There are some cliff overhangs that were used by the Indians
at some time in the past. There are some holes made into the rocks that
were used to crush grain or corn or beatles or whatever they use to eat. This is close to
Picket Post where there was an old army post to defend against the Indians.
Guess I will have to do some more research and hope the weather cools off
soon. The Indians didn't use much metal in those days but the calvery
did. It would be really awsome to come across a burried cache of old
army riffles. Makes you wonder what they did with all their equipment when
they abandoned their posts. Has anyone detected up there and found anything
interesting?