![]() ![]() He also tended it till about 1970.Īfter some lunch it was already 2:00 pm, so I headed up the highway to Farmington.įarmington is mostly an assemblage of homes. He donated the land for Mary Minerva McCroskey State Park. Old Farmers will recognize this name.Īt the edge of Garfield is Virgil McCroskeys home. ![]() Woops, the computer just locked up, but I saved my report. A number of new houses on the Idaho side. So, after wasting a couple hours I backtracked to the farmlands and headed west. Over and under trees, kelly humps, mud holes, etc. ![]() I got into some fairly rugged riding, for an old fat man. I found a few skid roads, but all dead ended. Since I was alone I decided to explore and see if I could find a route over this first range of mountains. I cross the hwy to Sawyer Rd then Freeze to Deep Creek. It looks like a new one has been put in since I was young. The Palouse River, just east of Palouse, the town. I went north on 95 to a jump off spot at West Cove. Cool and clear in the morning and warmer in the afternoon, but not too hot. In the concentrates, there was a fair amount of black sand, with red garnet and a heavy gold sand.Sat. There was a fair amount of large quartz material in the deposit. There is also more evidence of some old workings, with hand stacked rocks next to the creek, but it still didn’t prevent me from finding a decent amount of gold. A very small percentage of the gold did appear to have some amalgam, telling me that way back in the day mercury had been used by some of the old operations, but still a great amount of gold left behind. There is a granite base, so should be good pockets and cracks. There was a lot of fine gold as well, but found the large pieces of gold embedded in the bedrock cracks I was able to work. Let the pictures speak for themselves, as you can see there was one nugget recovered and a couple pickers. After 5 hours of running, I recovered 2.19 grams gold. Let’s talk about the gold…we ran two test samples, with bedrock ranging between 1 to 4 feet deep. In 1918 patented lode mines known as the “Gold Dollar Group” (Gold Dollar, Black Diamond, Up to Date, Potlatch & Monumental lode mines) were established under Mineral Survey 2905, producing mainly gold and silver from the ore. Where does the gold in Woof Creek come from? There is a vein close to the Alder Creek Summit (upstream to the southeast of these placer claims), which mostly heads southwest to northeast. ![]()
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