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To: Ahda who wrote (53021)	5/20/2000 5:17:00 PM
From: IngotWeTrust	Respond to of 116759

Thanks. Sounds like Roy's lessons are still too cheap. I DO have a philharmonic concertmaster husband of a friend in the Midwest...I'll ask him. As for the $10 for a single 2# sack... ---One gets 1.5 hours minimally with an expert panner, usually Pat; ---One gets to keep all the gold they find, ---One gets all their questions answered regarding where claims are for sale, ---One gets actual name referrals to miners with patented property for sale, ---One gets actual reclamation guidance from the experts, ---One gets free Eastern Oregon goldfied maps showing goldmining properties, both active and inactive, ---One gets free souvenier postcards of the fabulous lobby display of area placer gold and nuggets from the 1930s-1950s in a local bank STILL AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC VIEWING to this day, ---man, o man, talk about learning something from an eyepopping display of the real thang...YEEEEEEEEEHAW! ---One gets all kinds of other valuable information, and tips regarding reclamation of polluting mercury from area streams left by the Chinese in the 1850-60s to what to replant and reseed with upon putting back the stripped gravels, ---One gets a tour of actual veins on the property and what excites most passersby is that the fellow [ROY] who designed and built the trommel (PLUS a smaller version of one which he ALSO built is available for rent as well) is available to give tips and advice on how to build your own. Pretty cheap "expert lessons" whether paying $10 a sack or $100 for a 1/24 share of 11 ton ore run, wouldn't you agree? The nice thing about the wonderful enticing website pix and open to all invitation to participate is this, Darleen: the interested audience is self-selecting and ALWAYS gets more than they pay for, at least here. I can't vouch for other locations and operators. However, it may surprise you to learn that around the state of Oregon, most interior gold locations have a "grubstake" area where gold is definitely available in discernible quantites for those down on their "luck" financially. So anyone can come, put in a few hours with a #10 shovel, bucket and pan, and end up with enough gold for securing provisions, a/w/a room and board for 24 hours. FYI, Pat and Roy have the *ONLY* PAY TO PAN location on a major interstate highway in the entire state. Everything else is well off the "beaten path." The BLM can be helpful, a/w/a the forest service out here. So there is no shortage of information for the truly needly/desirious seekers of the hard yellow stuff, at least NOT in Oregon. NOT SO, in Washington...they've gotten plain obscene with their taxpayer entitled assistance, and very heavy handed with even the recreational panning clubs up there. Really sad. I was most amazed to learn that "grubstake section" feature about darn near every gold discovery out here. One would think this stuff and the land it is found in/upon would be guarded by 12' fencing topped with razor-barbed wire and patrolled by starving dobermans and machine gun toting landowners. Not so in Oregon. Let me know when you're comin', gal, so I can be sure and run the sweeper. I pan that stuff, too,haven't been skunked yet! Have a lovely weekend and thanks for your reply. I wasn't aware it was up to $200 per lesson on the upper end now. Fascinating! O/49r oregontrail.net for a picture of the "little trommel" a/w/a Pat and w/her ever present shovel to help give an idea of size. That is I-84 in the background where you see that semi heading northwest