Gold Fever!!!
Gold Fever!!!
Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter January 2018
Welcome
Welcome to
the 2018 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.
Do not forget the Newsletter and
pictures can always be found at:
www.huntforgems.com/gpaatomahwi/
Presidents Message
Happy new year to you all! I hope you had a good and relaxing holiday. This next
year we are not planning many outings as of yet. Just out annual trip to Nugget
Lake and one metal detecting outing. I do not have many speakers lined up for
this year so if there are any topics you would like to hear about or speakers
you can get to come and talk to us let me know about them and I will try to set
it up.
Watching the Minnesota Wisconsin web site I see some people found got panning
kits or dirt at target for $5 one in 24 bag have a piece of gold in them. They
also found gold panning kits at Menards that only contain gold colored plastic
beads and a cereal bowl shaped like a gold pan, be careful when shopping.
We
had a nice turnout for the Christmas meeting, lots of good food and plenty of
friends to talk too. Havent' found the time to do any gold panning in my
basement but I have lots of concentrates and gold bags to go thru. I also have
some gold hog matting to fit in my sluice for next year. It's a long winter I
hope to get some of it done before its over. See you at the meetings until the
creeks are ice free Mike.
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Upcoming
Events
January 6,
2018 - Wausau Prospectors Meeting/Program Fine Gold Recovery.
January 20,
2018 - Tomah Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm Guest
Speaker - Steve Miller
February 3,
2018 - Wausau Prospectors Meeting/Program Alaska Gold by Dean Race.
February 17.
2018 - Tomah Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm
March 3,
2018 - Wausau Prospectors Meeting/Program Prospecting for Diamonds in
glacial Material
March 17,
2018 - Tomah Club Meeting at Town of LaGrange Town Hall at 1:00 pm
Tomah Wisconsin GPAA Chapter Minutes December 16, 2017
Old Business:
The December meeting was held at the Town Hall at the Town of Lagrange, 22731
Flint Ave. on Route #21 west of Tomah Wisconsin on December 16, 2017,
25 members and guests attended.
Treasures report given low funds do to summer activities.
Everyone had a great time and enjoyed the Christmas Party and gifts abound.
Thanks for all the good company, good food and Happy New Year to all
New
Business:
January meeting on the 20th will be at the Town of LaGrange Town
Hall. The guest speaker will be
Steve Miller, so bring your questions for him about metal detecting.
Also please bring a dish to pass
for lunch.
Raffles:
50/50 Raffle - Richard Niemjski
Gold Raffle: Jeff Hastings - gold
nugget
Barb Bublitz - pay dirt
Wayne
Ellefson
- Gem Bag
Special thanks to all who brought raffle prizes, Thank you to all that donated
items for the Table Raffle Larry Bender,
Jeanie Morrison, Mike & Gayle Fait, Jeff Hastings, Barb Bublitz, Diane
North, Merlin M., Dan Broder, Steve Miller, Richard Powell, and Diane Kollins.
Sorry I missed anyone who donated.
Gold
Price on 12/31/17 was $1,302.50
Silver Price on 12/31/17 was $16.91
Respectfully submitted by Diane North Newsletter Editor
Tomah Gold Club e-mail:
Received 12/3/17 from William Purkey e-mail
wwpurkey@aol.com
William Purkey is a member of the Old North State Detectorists Club in North
Carolina. Our newsletters
have been sent to him for many years.
The Old North State Detectorists Club web site:
http://onsdclub.com/
The
Old North State Detectorists are an association of metal detecting hobbyists who
abide by a code of ethics and work to assist individuals and others with the
finding and returning of lost items at no charge.
William would like an up-date on our club. If
you can think of anything that would interesting that he can add to their
newsletter, please let him know. He would like to add a paragraph or two to
their Newsletter about our club.
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Treasure Legends Wisconsin
Counterfeiters had pot of Gold in the Woods near Rhinelander. C1908
WENT BACK FOR MONEY
Donnerstag Brothers had Pot of Gold Hidden in the Woods.
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 5 a pot of gold hidden in the woods near Rhinelander
caused the three Donnerstage brother, alleged counterfeiters and jail breakers,
to go back to their home, where they were captured.
The last one to be retaken, Rudolph, is in a hospital at Rhinelander,
shot in the leg by Deputy United States Marshal Sarrine, upon refusal to
surrender. Hugo and Albert will be
brought to jail here tonight. They
had $4000 in gold coin secreted in the woods and feared forest fires of that
neighborhood would destroy the money, besides they needed money to buy arms and
ammunition before going west.
Note:
$4000 worth of gold coins in 1908 would have been approx. 190 coins @
$20.67 each. Today if those coins
were 1 oz coins @ $1302.50 per coin and would be worth $247,275.00
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19th Century David Randall Property near North Band worth a look.
Miser Dead, Money Hidden
La Crosse, Wis., Oct.29, 1901 In the undertaking rooms at North Bend, a small
town near here, lie the remains of David Randall, who has lived the life of a
recluse in a hut near that pace for ears.
He had no relatives and thru far the remains have not been claimed.
He had been a miser and is thought to have left $500,000 hidden away, no
one knowing the hiding place.
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Officers elected for 2018.
President Michael Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265 (Cell phone to
be used only on meeting days = 715-305-8319)
Vice-President Gary Morrison 715-316-2555
Secretary Jeanne Morrison 715-316-2555
Newsletter Editor - Diane North (dbnorth@centurytel.net)
608-635-7031
Treasure Gayle Fait (mgfait@charter.net)
715-384-9265
Outing Chairman Jeff Hastings (monkeyhast@frontier.net)
(608) 637-3097
Claims Director Richard Niemyjski (richnski@frontiernet.net)
608-637-3295
State Director Mike Flint (mwink12@excite.com)
608-372-0694
APPROVED
DEALERS:
Deer field
Detectors. Dealer for Whites,
Fisher, Garrett, Minelab, Bounty Hunter, Detector Pro Detector & Pinpointers,
Sunray Detector Accessories, & many misc. detecting accessories.
Deerfield Detectors, N3091 CTY Rd. B, Hancock, WI 54943 (715) 572-1845 or
e-mail stmill@uniontel.net or http://www.deerfielddetectors.com/
Wisconsin
Area Clubs
The Kettle Moraine Prospectors of Wisconsin
Chapter of the GPAA holds meetings on the 2nd Saturday of each
month at 1pm Generations, 1550 Douglas DR, Go south onto County E about 3 blocks
off of HWY 23, contact
Chuck Riel 414-328-3194 or
visit
wisgold.org/index.html
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 at the
Village Town Hall in Brokaw Wisconsin. Address is: 218 2nd St.,
Brokaw, WI. Take US 51 north of Wausau and take exit 197. Then go east on county
road WW. At the 4 way stop in Brokaw take a right. You are there (just past the
Credit Union). Contact:
Kurt Bublitz 715-340-2831 or e-mail
lizzy101@charter.net
Wisconsin
Michigan Prospectors.GPAA Chapter holds their meetings on the 2nd
Saturday of every month at 11:00 am, at meeting location for the next few months
at Newinghams Supper Club at 722 Main St. Wausaukee, WI 54177. Contact Ron
Smith.
