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Peg Leg Smith Lost Gold
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anutami Posts: 491
11/30/2012
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I always enjoy reading articles about peg legs black gold nuggets. This article is interesting because he personally handled and examined the nuggets sent to desert magazine in 1966
Check it out
http://ramonajournal.com/on-memorys-back-trail-the-saga-of-peg-leg-smith-and-the-black-gold-p4703-88.htm
Desert magazine link starts on pg 8
http://mydesertmagazine.com/files/194611-DesertMagazine-1946-November.pdf
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tommy750 Posts: 1040
11/30/2012
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Did you notice this comment at the end of the magazine? Just so happens I'll be spending a few days after Christmas traveling the southern branch of the Old Spanish Road AKA Mojave Road. Will let you know if I find any black gold nuggets  Tom
Pegleg Was an Honest Man by tomteske, on Flickr
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surfponto Administrator Posts: 1362
12/1/2012
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Great post. Always was intrigued by that story....
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rockhopper Posts: 668
12/1/2012
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Thanks for sharing. I've read many stories and talked to many Gents over the years regarding Colorado desert Black Gold. Even to the point of metal detecting on several outings outside the ABDSP. I have a pile of "hot rocks" ( highly mineralized rocks that made my detector "sing") sitting in my garage but no large gold nuggets.
The only Gold found in S.D. or Imperial counties was small amounts of Gold dust in Coleman creek in a sluice box and panning. A buddy of mine and myself spent the whole day moving boulders down in the creek and basically wearing ourselfs out. While we were finally panning out our days work, a family of four comes hiking up the creek on a day hike.
"Look daddy , gold miners" LOL. Well, we had just cleaned out the black sand and we had a small ribbon of gold dust
maybe a gram in the bottom of our gold pan. They oooh'd and aaah'd and talking like we struck it rich and quickly hiked off talking amonst themselfs before we could explain our efforts
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