Tesorodeoro
Bronze Member
- Jan 21, 2018
- 1,245
- 1,936
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I think generally speaking you are correct.
What kind of water do you think The people of the 1830 's 1840's Drank
- Thread starter Gare
- Start date
Fred Finder
Jr. Member
They drank all moving water and from wells also cactus. Booze tooDo you think they would drink Creek , Stream ? If they were looking for a camping place. I think they would want a flat place with spring water. I am trying to find places where they would camp while building the canal locks
ANY HELP sure would be appreciated
🍾
ConceptualizedNetherlandr
Bronze Member
In all of recorded history, and even the unrecorded seethey parts ... the peeps drank the water they needed so that we could be here today and misspeculate about how this had occured. My bad 
relicmeister
Bronze Member
- Jul 26, 2012
- 2,210
- 2,131
- Detector(s) used
- XP Orx Deus II, 9” coil
- Primary Interest:
- Relic Hunting
Don’t know how they didn’t get sick constantly from unrefridgerated food and contaminated water from all sources. Wells were probably the most safe and rivers the least. I think contamination was the second main reason for drinking alcohol all the time.
ConceptualizedNetherlandr
Bronze Member
I'd guess that there were way fewer bugs around, like flies and germs. They didn't have huge supplies to store. they salted and dried what was excess for instantaneous consumption. They planned out harvest and slaughter. Cooler dryer places and times. You hear about settling the west not the rio grande. They didn't eat all that well. They survived. Grains & beans.
OP
OP
- Dec 30, 2012
- 7,464
- 14,044
- 🏆 Honorable Mentions:
- 2
- Detector(s) used
- Presently using Deus 2's & have Minelabs, Nokta's Tesoro's DEus's Have them all . Have WAY to many need to get rid of some
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
- Thread starter
- #28
Well maybe this is why people had a shorter life span then now ?
- May 9, 2012
- 22,415
- 70,850
- Primary Interest:
- Other
Cider.
jlbuchanan
Greenie
Whatever water they drank, it was a trade off to what we drink today. Ours has too many chemicals in it and theirs had too many bacteria in it. So, what's a happy medium?
We went to Lookout Mountain, NC and there is a trail that leads down to a waterfall, waterfall comes over a 100 foot cliff, to where we were... I walked out to that place and scooped up water and drank it, no reaction yet, but the park rangers said they wouldn't drink it, that you really don't know what's upstream, but it was probably ok.Do you think they would drink Creek , Stream ? If they were looking for a camping place. I think they would want a flat place with spring water. I am trying to find places where they would camp while building the canal locks
ANY HELP sure would be appreciated
(best water by taste test)
Years ago I was at a camp in the NC Mountains and we drank from the streams that flowed around the campsite, But this was on top of a mountain, sooo there really wasn't an "Upstream" from there...
jlbuchanan
Greenie
These days, you can't tell what would be upstream. Even the animals know not to take a leak in the water they drink. We are worse than animals....LOL!
Bucket Lister
Sr. Member
- Dec 20, 2023
- 328
- 515
- Detector(s) used
-
XP Dēus II
XP MI-6
XP WSA II-XL
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
There's always an "upstream"--even if "upstream" is an aquifer.
50 years ago we used to camp in the Adirondacks. We drank water from the springs & streams, but not from the lake they ran into. We never got sick, but I wouldn't try that today.
Actually, there probably aren't a whole lot of nasties that can:
- Survive in that environment, and
- Cross the species barrier.
That said, there are other kinds of things (non-biological) that may contaminate/pollute those waters.
Best to know your sources, or pack in your water or purification gear.
