WPA
2003 OUTING

 
 
The third annual WPA outing was a great success and a lot of fun for all

Everyone took their turn at clasifying the dirt to run through the high bankers, drywashers, and spiral wheel.


Chuck & Jim sure don't seem to be camera shy but I think they need some dirt to run through
the high banker.


Randy with his spiral wheeel set up with the discharge going through a mini sluice.
Kind of a neat idea and I'll bet he didn't miss any gold.


There was a lot of good discussion and story telling.


Again we had an excellent treasure hunt with a lot of great prizes. There were a lot of participation form all age brackets. The children were given a ten minute head start so they were even able to find some great prizes.


John had to cook the sausage,chicken gumbo while the treasure hunt was going on.
You could tell he really wanted to be there.


The chow line went pretty fast and and the Cajun sausage, chicken gumbo was excellent. John didn't
spice it up to much so everyone was able to try it.

We even had a gold screw trommel there washing the dirt of the rock so we didn't miss much gold.


After all the dirt and rocks were run everyone pitched in cleaning up the rock pile. 
These rocks were hauled to Atlantic City to do some ground control in town. 


One of the miners in Atlantic City donated some dirt for the kids to pan out.
They all found some good gold.


We held our monthly meeting for July at the outing being it was so close to the 
regular date and there was a good attendance.


The gold draw was the highlight of the event. The gold from the dirt we had run 
was a little short in quanity so gold bought from the store was added for the draw.
So everyone ended up with some gold.


The gold
This was the gold from the dirt that we had run. It was all put in one vial for our raffle.

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