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
1st Vice President
Curtis Roche 435-723-9663
2nd Vice President
Bob Shriber 801-726-4824
Newsletter
Rich Roper 801-725-0727
Secretary/Treasurer
Sheri Gaddis 801-510-2657
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 [email protected].
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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April Fools
Day
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Earth Day
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General
Meeting
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27 28 29 30
April 2014
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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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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25 26
Memorial
Day
27 28
General
Meeting
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May 2014