SECOND QUARTER, MAY 2016 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 5 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Though there is still some rain here and there, some very nice spring weather has set in along the Klamath River. The [...]
Our 2016 Gold Prospecting Season is Just Getting Started- May 2016
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High-banking Without the Use of Motorized Pumps!- June 2016
SECOND QUARTER, JUNE 2016 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 6 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Summer weather has definitely arrived in northern California. We are having nice sunny days, mostly mild, but sometimes with temperatures reaching up to 100 degrees. [...]
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Using a floating sluice to recover gold!- July 2016
THIRD QUARTER, JULY 2016 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 7 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager We demonstrated in last month’s newsletter how water can be gravity-fed off the mountain to operate gold recovery systems without the use of motorized pumps. [...]
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We Had a Fantastic Group Gold Mining Project in July!- August 2016
THIRD QUARTER, AUGUST 2016 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 8 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager This group mining project was off to a perfect start about a week before it began. It started when Laura Bagley and Scott [...]
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California Supreme Court Rules in Favor of State Authority over Mining! – September 2016
THIRD QUARTER, SEPTEMBER 2016 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 9 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager I am very disappointed to announce that the California Supreme Court unanimously overruled California’s Third Appellate Court’s unanimous ruling in the Rinehart case. Here is the [...]
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76 Members Make a Draw on the Klamath National Bank! – October 2016
FOURTH QUARTER, OCTOBER 2016 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 10 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Over the many years, we have discovered that the Klamath River and its tributaries in northern California are very much like a huge bank. But this is [...]
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Let’s Wait Until Next Month – November 2016
FOURTH QUARTER, NOVEMBER 2016 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 11 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager I have been drafting a great success story about a mining couple who just recently opened up a rich gold strike on New 49’er properties and recovered [...]
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Rich Gold Deposit Found Under the Original “Happy Camp!” – December 2016
FOURTH QUARTER, DECEMBER 2016 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 12 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Story by John Rose If you search the Internet, you can find several different explanations of how the town of Happy Camp got its name. The [...]
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THE BIG FLUSH! Down the Drain in 15 seconds – January 2017
FIRST QUARTER, JANUARY 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 1 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Note: We normally avoid publishing stories in our monthly newsletter that are not directly related to The New 49’ers. But since this is [...]
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Now is the Time for us to Act! – February 2017
FIRST QUARTER, FEBRUARY 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 2 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Anyone who is paying attention knows that there are a lot of changes already happening in just the first two weeks since Donald Trump has taken [...]
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Legal Fund Drawing Winners – March 2017
FIRST QUARTER, MARCH 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 3 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager The New 49’ers Legal Fund, separate from The New 49’er Prospecting Association, is an organization with the purpose to defend the civil and statutory rights of [...]
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Brutal Winter Storms Have Slammed the Klamath River! – April 2017
SECOND QUARTER, APRIL 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 4 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Story by Laura Bagley The last four days have been sun-filled, warm and with blue skies above — which hasn’t happened much over the last [...]
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Enjoying the Great Outdoors is the Best Treasure of All! – May 2017
SECOND QUARTER, MAY 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 5 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Story by Laura Bagley Now that spring is in the air, Scott and I are back out along the Klamath River. Finally! Since we [...]
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We Now Have an Effective Water Gravity System at Lower Wingate! – June 2017
SECOND QUARTER, JUNE 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 6 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Through an incredible amount of effort with the help of around 20 New 49’er members over five long days, we have constructed a very [...]
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Our First Weekend Group Outing of This Season Went Great! – July 2017
THIRD QUARTER, JULY 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 7 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Note; Normally we put the newsletter out much earlier in the month. We have been holding off for news of what the results would [...]
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“Doctor Gold” Blessed Our Most Recent Weekend Group Project! – August 2017
THIRD QUARTER, AUGUST 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 8 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager I cannot explain the reason for it; but just like there are some people who cannot find very much gold no matter how hard they [...]
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Our Second Electronic Prospecting Outing of 2017 Went Really Well! – September 2017
THIRD QUARTER, SEPTEMBER 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 9 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Thankfully, the smoke from wildfires surrounding Happy Camp cleared up enough that we went ahead with our group electronic prospecting 2-day outing in [...]
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Our Most Recent Legal Fund Drawing Winners – October – November 2017
FOURTH QUARTER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER 2017 VOLUME 31, NUMBER 10 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Here is the list of winners for the Friday 27 October 2017 New 49’er Legal Fund-raiser Drawing: Ten 1-ounce American Silver Eagles 1. [...]
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The Luck of Two Miners! – January – February 2018
FOURTH QUARTER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY 2018 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 1 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Story by Derek Eimer Come listen to a story, bout’ two miners in the red, a couple mountain boys, barely kept themselves fed. [...]
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How the Klamath River Disposed of Me in Just a Few Seconds! – June 2018
SECOND QUARTER, JUNE 2018 VOLUME 32, NUMBER 2 Newsletter By Dave McCracken General Manager Story by Jim Box Horrifying experience by a gold prospector who should no longer be alive I crafted my first suction dredge back in 2015 [...]
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