August Newsletter 2014
Gold Fever !!!
Tomah
Wisconsin GPAA Chapter – August, 2014
Welcome
Welcome to the 2014 GOLD FEVER Newsletter.
Another year, another gold prospecting opportunity.
If you have not tried to find gold, you need to give it a try.
Let us know if you need help to get started, there are many people with
experience that the help you.
The Tomah, Wisconsin GPAA Chapter newsletter is your newsletter, please let me
know what you would like to see in it, we hope to bring you more information in
the coming year. I hope you enjoy
the information and articles included in this newsletter.
You can receive this Newsletter by
mail, by either attended a meeting, or sent a book of stamps for postage.
We are also always looking for speakers, we need to help out our great president
(Mike Fait). He has been putting
the programs together with very little help.
If you have taken a trip or just have a story about somewhere, we would
like to hear about it. You do NOT
need to be an expert speaker; everyone likes to hear about what other members
are doing.
Do not forget the Newsletter and pictures can always be found at:
www.huntforgems.com/gpaatomahwi/
President’s Message
I hope everyone got last month’s newsletter in time. That is the way they will
be mailed from now on.
Thank you Richard For organizing the metal detecting hunt and finding such good
locations to hunt. There is still time this summer for everyone to get out all
hunt weather its gold or coins it's the hunt that counts.
I saw Larry Bender this month he is between knee replacements one down one to
go. He said Capt'n Bob is getting a little better since his last stroke.
Larry came over to my house where I was doing some panning that day, he dug out
some of my tailings and found some gold I missed. And here I thought I was good!
Now before I dump my panning tub I'm going to have to repan the muck on the
bottom.
Last month an interested prospector went in to the Marathon county parks
department to ask what rules there were on prospecting in the county parks he
was told there weren't any rules. The Marathon county board then had a meeting
on what rules they wanted and decided just to outlaw any digging in county
steams. So until this rule is changed all digging in Marathon county streams in
against the law and you could be arrested. The Wausau
Presidents Letter cont.
chapter is working with the board to try and change the rule. The next meeting
of the board is Aug 14.
See you in the creeks just not in
Marathon county Mike Fait
Tomah
Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Minutes July, 2014
Old Business:
The July
meeting
was a metal detecting hunt in and around Viroqua. Richard Niemyjski found
several different parks for members to hunt in. Seven members took park in the
hunt. All members found coins at every location including coin spills at two
parks. There were so many coins in one spot Jeff Hastings found that he was
still finding coins in the dirt as he was refilling his hole.
The second park had areas that clubs used for coin hunts in sawdust for kids. I
don't know how many coins the kids found but we were finding nickels so close
together that the holes you were digging overlapped.
The weather was very pleasant high 70's to low 80's. All the diggers shared a
lunch in a pavilion at the second park. The only drawback to the day were the
small flies or nats that flew in your eyes, nose and mouth.
Richard Niemyjski found a 1919 Wheat penny. Jeff Euler a buffalo nickel, Jeff
Hastings a 1952 wheat cent and Mike Fait a 1957 wheat cent.
New
Business:
August’s meeting will be on the 3rd Saturday of August on the 16th
at 1:00 pm at the Town Hall at the Town of Lagrange, 22731 Flint Ave. on Route
#21 west of Tomah Wisconsin. Please
bring a dish to pass for lunch.
At August’s meeting Robert Wysocki will demonstrate a dry washer.
Raffles:
There was no drawing last month but Jeff Euler, Jeff Hastings and Mike Fait won
prizes for the oldest coins found. (Richard Niemyjski bowed out since he
organized the hunt.)
Gold
Price on 7/27/14 was $1,308.30
Silver Price on7/27/14
was $20.75
Respectfully submitted by Diane North –
Newsletter Editor
MAY THERE BE GOLD IN EVERY PAN !!!!
Hi everyone,
Please do not Pan & sluice in any of Marathon Co. land, there is a rule in place
that prohibits any digging in the streams. If anyone is caught doing it they
will get arrested. This is until further notice after there are more meetings to
change the laws on this. We are working with them and hope they change the laws.
The next meeting will be in AUG, I don’t have the date as of yet.
Warm Regards,
Carl Mauritz
Wausau Prospectors Secretary
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Wisconsin Treasure
There is a good chance that there are many thousands of dollars in coin and old
greenbacks buried in or near the town of Elkhorn, Wisconsin.
It was Tuesday evening, November 8, 1865, when Charles and Eugene Hamilton
carefully made their way through the streets of Elkhorn toward the Exchange Bank
of Rockwell and Company. Their objective was a total withdrawal of all the
bank's assets.
The Civil War had ended officially in April, but Northern victory celebrations
were still to be found, like the one going on in Elkhorn, and the Hamilton’s had
been waiting for just a noisy occasion.
It is not known how long Charles and Eugene Hamilton were in the bank, but
apparently not a shot was fired. It is known that when they walked out, they
were $200,000 richer. With the celebration still going full tilt, the Hamilton’s
left the bank and Elkhorn as unnoticed as when they came.
How the sheriff acquired the information that put him on the trail of the
Hamilton’s is not known. Perhaps an informer, tempted by the increasing reward,
gave him a clue, or it is feasible to believe that they may have left a clue
behind as they made their hasty retreat from Elkhorn. Whatever the reason, the
following October, Sheriff Stone of Elkhorn arrested Charles and Eugene Hamilton
in El Paso. Five months later the Hamilton’s were back in Elkhorn in jail.
What happened to the $200,000? Efforts by many have not turned up any clues at
this time. What happened to the Hamilton’s? Again, records furnish no details.
However, what seems to be a distinct possibility is that there is a good chance
that some, if not all, of the loot is still buried in or near the town of
Elkhorn.
Copied from Wisconsin Prospectors.com
Items for Sale:
Tomah Gold Club t-shirts –
with Gold Club emblem and created either with your personal name or without your
name. Contact Mike Fait if you are
interested.
For Sale: Fisher 1220 metal detector with headphones and manual $300 call Ted
Ehrhardt (608)985-7360 or (608)415-1661
Officers – all officers were re-elected for 2014.
President – Michael Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265
Vice-President – Gary Morrison 715-316-2160
Secretary – Jeanne Morrison 715-316-2160
Newsletter Editor - Diane North (dbnorth@centurytel.net)
608-635-7031
Treasure – Gayle Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265
Outing Chairman – Richard Niemyjski (richnski@frontiernet.net)
608-637-3295
Claims Director – Richard Niemyjski (richnski@frontiernet.net)
608-637-3295
State Director – Mike Flint (mwink12@excite.com)
608-372-0694
Upcoming Events
August 16, 2014 - Dry washing Robert Wysocki
Sept 12-14, 2014 - Snider Lake outing (Wausau Outing)
Sept 20, 2014 -
Tomah
Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall – at 1:00 pm
Sept, 26 – 28, 2014 - Fall in Parrish (Dennis Laubenstein outing)
Wisconsin Area Clubs
Greenbush Wisconsin GPAA Chapter – holds their meetings on the 2nd
Saturday of each month at 3:00 pm in the Greenbush Town Hall, N644 Sugarbush Rd,
Greenbush Wi. – Contact: Ron Smith 920-207-4092
Midstate Metal Detecting Club – meets every 3rd Wednesday at 7:00 pm
at Shooters Bar and Restaurant at the intersection of Hwy 39 and 54, next to the
Shell Station. Contact: Steve
Miller 715-572-1845
Wausau Prospectors – meets the 1st Saturday of the month at 11:00 am
in the community room at Cedar Creek Mall next to I-39 just north of Gander
Mountain. Take I-39 exit 185.
Contact: Kurt Bublitz
715-340-2831 or e-mail
lizzy101@charter.net
Wisconsin Northwoods Adventures GPAA Chapter – holds their meetings on the 2nd
Saturday of every month at 11:00 am, at Rice Lake
Regional Airport located west of Cameron and west of hwy53 on 19th St.,
Rice Lake, Wi. Contact: Mike
Wiersma 715-833-7603