Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 08:27:14
I don't know if you remember me or not. I was
the young guy who
was thrilled to learn that gold existed in the state of Virginia and
you were so
kind to help me by sending me free maps of areas known of gold
regions. I don't
mean to offend you but I was skeptical at first of the areas you
highlighted on
the maps because most of the old gold hunters out there in Mineral and
Louisa said
gold is more east away from the mountains well I wanted to share this
picture with you.
I went down a back road after work just to take a short cut someone
told me there was
a old quarry near by long time ago I couldn't find it but did stumble
on a mountain
stream here in Charlottesville which to my surprise had old trash and
debris around
it but the creek was beautiful I looked down into it and found yellow
all over I don't
know if its pyrite flakes or gold flakes but most of the bank of the
stream is covered
with quartz rocks all over and the stream is loaded with it there is
black sand
everywhere to I went once but I'm going back again. I'm not doing it
for the money
I'm doing this for history if these guys from the past could do this
with shovels
and buckets and left during the California gold rush and got shut down
during the
civil war maybe I could go out and find some to. I think its such a
cool thing
history and the way things are today people don't think much of it or
think that
it doesn't exist anymore but something in my heart tells me to keep
pressing on
in this pursuit. Before I go out I always say a prayer to God to take
me to the right spots. Well now that
I wrote you a book I want you to take a look at some of these pics I
have and wanted
to share. I'm keeping my promise with you if I find some gold your
getting some I
thought that was a wonderful thing you did sending me all that
material and paid
postage your the best a promise is a promise keep me in your prayers
thanks.
