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Politics : Did the Great Experiment Fail? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (577)	6/4/2013 12:03:38 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 926

A friend sent me an article from a 1930 era magazine where a fleeing convict found the mother lode but could not stop long enough while running to do anything meaningful. He did describe some tree and creek before perishing in jail and now my friend thinks he found it and of course the whole story is only real in two imaginations, the writer and the reader. Most prospecting stories by amateurs and professionals are filled with similar wild goose chases. Years ago one summer I was in another friends garage and he had a pail of rocks that he got from an old trench on Kississing Lake, or so he said. I assayed the rock and it came back with high amounts of platinum and palladium. I told him if he could recall where he found it we could make millions quickly. We went to Kississing on the last day it was good to fly on floats. As soon as the plane took off it started getting over cast and we made our way about a mile through tough bush. When we got to the area where the showing was it started snowing - that was the cue to turn back as I knew the plane would have wanted to pick us up early as it was getting dangerous to fly. In total we spent about 20 minutes out of the whole day looking in the correct area for the old trench which still has not been found. When our ride landed to save us it was a new junior pilot that looked Harry Potter about age 14. As he picked up speed to take off in the snow we just missed hitting a large boulder jutting out of the lake. I closed my eyes for the rest of that flight.