NUPA NUGGETS

In This Issue

Pres message

Treasurer’s report

Winners

2014 Outings

Winter Storms &

Floods Can Bring

Spring Gold

Ads

Price List

Calendar

Next Meeting, April 23, 2014

President’s Message

April showers are suppose to bring May flowers. Looks like this year it was March rain that brought April flowers and weeds.

The last word on Idaho dredging or EPA is nothing is going to change, at least as far as this year goes. So no dredging in Idaho this year again without your permission slip from EPA. Good luck.

Rock Show this year went well and I'd like to per-sonally thank each and everyone of you that came and helped. It is much appreciated.

Club trailer is For Sale as voted on last month at the meeting and it's my decision to offer it to our club members first. If your interested in a small 10' x 5'6 " enclosed cargo trailer, you can email me your offer/s or contact me personally to look at it. We will consider all offers from NUPA members for the next 30 days. After which time we'll put it on the open market if we don't get a acceptable offer.

Kim

Northern Utah Prospector’s Association April 2014

Gold: $1,303.49

Silver: $19.53

As of April 15, 2014

Officers

2014

President

Kim Patterson 801-393-2132

kimdpatterson@hotmail.com

1st Vice President

Curtis Roche 435-723-9663

pcawood@coastalnet.com

2nd Vice President

Bob Shriber 801-726-4824

Newsletter

Rich Roper 801-725-0727

rr70060@gmail.com

Secretary/Treasurer

Sheri Gaddis 801-510-2657

SheriGaddis1234@comcast.net

Parliamentarian

Dave DeHeer

Claims Director

Lonnie Fausett

Members at Large

Leo & Donale Richan

Hal & Lynda Berry

Sandy Patterson

Curt Dayton

www.nupainc.org

Treasurer’s Report April, 2014

Checking Savings

April 7 Balance $ 1737.88 April 7 Balance $ 5090.08

Winners

White Ticket: (Door Prize) Key Folding Knife – Suzanne Smuin Clear Safety Glasses – Jeremy Catron 3 1/2 inch Mini Flashlight – Keven Lundgreen Mini Tire Gauge – Glen Gaddis Door Prize Nugget – Bruce Smith Door prize (white ticket) winners are asked to bring refreshments to

the next meeting and are reimbursed with a receipt.

Blue Ticket: (Raffle) All-Purpose Plastic Mortar Tub – Paul Silcox

1/2” Classifier – Rich Roper

Jobe Plastic Scoop – Paul Silcox

1972 Eisenhower silver dollar – Sam Ginn

Small Nugget – Steven Cramer

Large Nugget – Doug Smuin

Quarterly Nugget — Dave Stone

2014 Outings / Activities:

April 18, 19 & 20 — Crescent Creek

April 26th — Dig and Detect (Curtis’s house 10:00 AM, 315 S 100 W Hyrum)

May 10th — Road Clean Up (9:00 AM), Spring Fling (Shady Lane Park at

11:00 AM) After the Road Clean UP, there will be a Spring Fling at 11:00 at

Shady Lane Park. If you want to eat then its suggested that you help with the

cleanup. The club will provide the hot dogs, hamburgers, and condiments. The

members only need to bring the side dishes. Also, bring anything you would like

to sell (swap meet for members). The park has a nice area for kids to play.

May 17th — Crawfish Boil (Curtis’s house at 1:00 PM Everyone’s invited

315 S 100 W Hyrum)

May 23, 24 & 25 — Osceola

July 18, 19 & 20 — Wishful / NUPA 5

July 23rd — Meeting and Ice Cream at Shady Lane Park

August 15, 16 & 17 — Kaymack

September 19, 20 & 21 — NUPA 5

November 8 — Turkey Shoot (It is a pot luck and will be at the Log Cabin in

Huntsville)

December 10 — Christmas Party (you must RSVP by the Nov meeting —If

you don’t then don’t’ come) It is also at the Log Cabin in Huntsville.

Let us know if anyone has any good ideas for other outings for the summer.

Membership Dues

Membership dues are from January

through December. Anyone joining

after October 1 will be considered a

paid member through the next

calendar year.

New membership $40.00

Renewal $30.00

Mailed Newsletter $5.00

E-mail copies of the newsletter are

included as part of membership.

Mailed newsletters add $5.00 to

renewal to help defray cost of postage

and printing.

You will have an opportunity to

choose your newsletter delivery

preference when you renew your

membership.

Winter Storms & Floods Can Bring

Spring Gold

Typical winter storms that regularly occur in gold country usually

do not create enough havoc to force substantial amounts of

"new" gold into movement. However, when major flooding like

what happened in Colorado in September of 2013 is followed by

a “bad” winter, a great deal of gold can be set free. When tons of

rock, cobble, and boulders are swept downstream along bedrock

during a huge storm, quite a bit of destruction occurs. Plants,

weeds, and trees that normally grow along the river and gravel

bars are washed away. And when a major storm or flood tears up

large portions of a streambed, a fair amount of this newly-

released gold, because of its weight, will be deposited along the

riverbed and settle into cracks and crevices.

Stream bed layers caused by several floods are referred to as

“flood layers.” Flood layers are usually a different color, con-

sistency and hardness from the other layers of material within the

streambed, making them easy to recognize. Larger, heavier piec-

es of gold will work their way down toward the bottom of a flood

layer as they are washed downstream. The smallest and lightest

flakes of gold might not work their way down through a flooding

layer at all, but might remain dispersed within the material. Of

course not all flood layers contain gold in large quantities, but it’s

a good place to start.

Some of the best areas to look for flood gold are where the

stream or river widens out, or levels out, or changes direction.

These areas can allow concentrations of gold to collect either on

bedrock or in the contact zones between layers. Another place

that tends to collect gold are gravel bars, especially the ones lo-

cated towards the inside of bends in a waterway.

The library is up and running on-line now.

Not a lot of water at Crescent Creek. If you go there it is recom-

mended that you lock your doors, there are a lot of people up

there.

No one ever hopes that Mother Nature releases the type of fury that causes loss of

life and property, but when a catastrophic weather event occurs in a gold-bearing ar-

ea, take advantage of it. Get out there and get your share of the GOLD! Good luck

and be safe!

"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to pro-duce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand

For Sale

One Inch Diameter Homelite Water Pump w/2 Cycle Engine 12 feet of 1 inch Dia. Suction Hose w/Screen & fittings

25 feet of 1 inch Dia. Discharge Hose w/fittings Keene Header Spray Box for a 10 inch wide sluice with 1 inch fittings, spray bars & on/

off valve Keene Sluice box adapter for a 10 inch sluice

Short 10 inch wide sluice box Adjustable Metal Stand for High Banker and Sluice

Assorted Fittings and Tools 2 rolls of 1 1/2 inch Dia. Blue Discharge Hose

First $500.00 Takes It All

Richard Thomas “Nature’s Nuggets” 435-730-3388

306 W 200 S Brigham City, UT 84302

Ad Size 3 Months 6 Months 12 Months

1/4 page $3.00 $5.50 $10.00

1/2 page $4.50 $8.00 $15.00

Full Page Business Ad for 1 month $8.00

Free non-commercial advertising for NUPA members.

Submit your information to rr70060@yahoo.com.

We will pay you for your New Diabetic Test Strips unopened in the original box

We prefer that they don't expire for at least 1 year We may still take some if they are less then a year.

Call for Prices

Miles 801-391-9912 We can answer your questions

Advertisement FOR SALE

ATV cover $25

ATV Rear Basket $85

12VDC Igloo Cooler $35

Gold Buddy $225

Gold Magic rotating pan w/battery $275

Air Compressor New in crate 150 psi, 15 cu ft/ min

Honda gas motor retail $2385/ Offer

6500 Watt diesel Generator 10 HP, 75 db noise lev-

el, 203 lbs, wheels new in crate retails $3975/ Offer

3" water pump new 220 gpm, 98' lift, retails $2989/

offer

Falcon metal detector MD-10, with case $80

12 Gauge shotgun Western Field, variable choke

$90

gold pans large $2.50, small $2.00,

Plastic 5 gall bucket size $3.00

5 gallon outboard motor fuel tank $10

125-150 HP boat props 2 ea $25 ea

2 wood sluice boxes free

Appliance lift (not Chinese) $45

4000 watt Honda Generator has governor problem,

runs good otherwise, removed from motor home.

$350

Frank Kuba 801-643-5090

If you can't or don't want to get a generator

and winch in to pull out a big rock, or you just

don't want the attention. This might be for you.

3000lb Grip-Puller.

Cable hoist. Don't

know much about it

as it was my father-in

-laws.

$150.00

Kim

801 393-2132

PROTANDIM Dietary Supplement

Walter Hillyer Independent Distributor

(801) 660-0161

www.mylifevantage.com/walterhillyer www.abelievit.com

1992 Chevy Cheyenne

4X4 Extended Cab

186,000 miles

$3000.00 OBO

Walter 801-660-0161

NUPA Price List

Non Pocket T-shirt $10.00 Pocket T-shirt $15.00 Short Sleeve Denim $20.00 Long Sleeve Denim $25.00 Hooded Sweatshirt $25.00 Hat $10.00 Visor $8.00 Tote $12.00 Blanket W/Logo $22.00 1/2” Mesh Stainless Steel Classifier $24.00 1/4” Mesh Stainless Steel Classifier $24.00 1/8” Mesh Stainless Steel Classifier $24.00 10” Crevice Tool $9.00 12” Crevice Tool $11.00 Snappy Grip Handles $3.00 Old Prospectors Never Die—Mug $15.00 Gold Panner Belt Buckle $13.00 Jobe Black 10 inch Gold Pan $4.00 Black Panning Gloves (24 inch) $15.00

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Earth Day

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General

Meeting

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April 2014

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Cinco de

Mayo

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Clean Up /

Spring Fling

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Mother’s

Day

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Crawfish

Boil

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Memorial

Day

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General

Meeting

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May 2014