southern california flood control damage and finds.

[pistol perfect]

these items were found in an old southern california flood control that dates back to the late 1800s. there was lots of damage done to property along side these flood controls! some people lost 15 to 20 feet of land because the water eroded it! here are some of the items that I have found just from walking through the flood control today.

 

[dfx willy]

erosion!! wow. talk about hunting a man made stream. id zap that gun with a little electro. willy

 

[gleaner1]

Get the pan out! I think the cat is guarding a nugget.

 

[aa battery]

wow worse than us here in the central valley

 

[Brian(upstateNY-Central Fla.)]

Cool finds and pictures feel bad for them folks tho

 

[Mackaydon]

Mammoth Ski Resort reports up to 17 FEET of snow on the ground; ten feet of snow within a recent four day period. Back in the day.......snow like this might provide skiiing conditions on the 4th of July; and if you skied on the 4th, you would have received a 'free pass' for skiiing the following Christmas Day.
Merry Christmas to all.
Don...

 

[gemee]

That cat is a beauty! Looks like a Maine Coon.

 

[Blacksheep]

Love that Plymouth hub-cap! Great pics/finds, thank you for sharing.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Great finds there pistol perfect! Heard it finally stopped raining there.
Love the crock (looks like a butter crock) and the Ball sealer jar!

Is there a date on the bottom of that Ball jar?

 

[Damon64]

Cool finds! What's the date on that cat?

 

[sscindercoop]

Great pics

 

[crazyjarhead]

Like those old 50 's hubaps. Looks like mother nature unearted an old dump

 

[EagleDown]

Love that Plymouth hub-cap! Great pics/finds, thank you for sharing.

Just a little "Old mans trivia"; I use to go to small wrecking yards looking for these older wheel covers, because I could use (part of) them in my gold/mercury recovery. I don't remember what year it was discontinued, but older wheel covers were made in two(?) parts. Kind of like clad coins.

First, there was a sheet of fairly heavy steel, then a thinner sheet of chromed zinc was placed on top of it, then they went through a press that formed the shape and logo on it. So, I would take a couple of tools, (screwdriver and pliers,) and peel the outer layer off of the inner layer of steel.

I could then use little pieces of the outer layer of zinc to recover the mercury from the acid I used to remove the mercury from the gold. Saved a bit of money that way.

Today, the zinc would be worth saving for it's scrap value. I believe it will increase in value as the Gov. uses more and more for coinage.

Eagle

 

[traverdog]

Some interesting finds.