Last Post 24 Jan 2017 09:52 AM by  ADAM ANDREWS
IS MINING IN YOUR BLOOD AND HERITAGE?
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23 Jan 2017 08:21 AM

    My bride tells me in a recent post by my cousin from Colfax ca. on facebook that she had uncovered ownership of mines by our relatives from the past. With further research I found they owned part of the famous Big Oak Tree Mine, $ 100,000.00 + and the Valley Forge and I'm sure some others. The Big Oak became part of the Rising Sun IN the 1930's $ 2,000,000.00 strong and the family was in all the major camps like Virginatown, Ophir, illinoisetown , Gold hill and others as they were all Cornish miners on both sides  from England and in the tunnels and shafts. Not sure what happened to me because I don't even like driving thru a tunnel in a car, Must be the cheese heads from Wisconsin on my mothers side, do they  have mines in Wisconsin? Tom
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    23 Jan 2017 05:07 PM
    Mining and manual labor has been my families life work, not to mention military service. My father was born in the Alaska Territory prior to it becoming a state. His father like his grandfather worked the railroads and when the Alaskan rail lines were just a dream he signed up. I saw pictures of the gold they would find just cutting ground to lay track and it is amazing. That is the German side of my family. On my mothers side they settled in Tejas while it was still under Mexican control, the first family to settle into Dallas. But being Scotts and Welch their short stocky build was perfect for mining and that is how they made a living before moving to the new world.
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    24 Jan 2017 09:52 AM

       Ya my Grampa and his brother panned around the northern San Diego area in the 50's. When I was 11 or 12, he gave us all some coins and a 1oz. vile of black sands and Gold. So about 20 years later, I panned it out and it was 3.9 grams of Gold. That's when I got the Gold fever. We grew up as mountain weekenders, and Grampa really liked the weekend cabin life on Palomar mountain.
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