Just during the construction of the Applegate River dam which is now Applegate Lake they recovered millions of dollars of gold just during the construction of the dam. This claim is just up river roughly 1 ½

miles from the lake. The middle fork Applegate River and Elliott Creek were the two main gold producers in this area. We also own claims on Elliott Creek. This claim is ½ mile south of the Oregon border in California. Half ounce to ounce nuggets are not uncommon in some of the rivers and creeks in this area. If you know the history of the area and this river then you know what I am talking about. He has found some very nice gold on our claims we own there.

We go after quality claims and NOT quantity of claims to be sold. We also don’t make up a fancy company name and take computer classes just to look professional. We are miners—not computer geeks. We also do not file over on top of other people’s pre-existing claims and try to sell them as others are doing right now on this auction site. Even though we have many, many years of experience from Alaska to Arizona we do not try to tell you we have over 100 years of experience and we’re the best. The truth of the matter is that some of these people who say these things have never even owned a claim until then end of 2003-beginning 2004 and some up until just recently. This is proven by BLM & county documents. If anyone tries to tell you this have them furnish you a recorded document dating back to when they say or a stamped BLM document like all location notices are. We have watched these people locate on designated wilderness areas, road corridors, dams, parking lots, power turbo plants and still claim to know what their doing. California BLM can verify this for you if you ask. A legitimate, honest claim seller should not have a problem with this.

This auction is for the full 160 acre claim known as "Golden Core" The CAMC is 291743. Whiskey Ridge is just to the west of this claim. Whiskey Ridge is well known for gold itself. This is truly a claim worth owning. Accessibility is great on this claim. This claim has easy access with any size RV. There is roughly 1 mile of good wide dirt road access to this claim. While you are on the claim you will probably notice where I built a couple campfire/cooking areas with stones. It is just a really good time camping, cooking and dredging on this river. You will find none better!! There is quite a bit of down firewood in this area for your fires, but there is a burn ban in this area and most of the western states at this time of year. The town of Ruch, Oregon is just down the road roughly 20 miles for gasoline, groceries and chilled beverages if desired. The long sharp curves on this claim offer some of the best dredging, high banking and metal detecting areas imaginable. The river on this claim in spots runs in a steep down hill grade with natural bed rock sticking out of the river and huge chunks of bed rock that have busted off the canyon walls falling into the river coming to rest acting as natural riffles on this claim as you can see in some of the photos. Lick Gulch and Whiskey Creek also flows into the Middle Fork Applegate River just above this claim and dozens of other creeks and tributaries. The inside curves where the river slows down because of the curves makes this a dredgers paradise. There is also a lot of exposed bedrock in and out of the rivers throughout this claim. This is a wonderful area to just explore with a metal detector as one never knows what they might dig up in this area. I’m probably going to regret selling this claim as I am having my doubts now, but a person has to do what they do. There are a lot of rich gold producing tributaries above and around this claim.

Now keep in mind this area and this claim are not like most of the claims you see being offered most of the time with a bunch of mumble jumble talking more about themselves instead of the claim where they are located just outside of the big cities where thousands of people have run dredges and turned it over hundreds of times and not having a chance in hell to find virgin bedrock. This part of the country is very low key and pretty secluded where there is very few small towns and residents. Always keep in mind the population of the surrounding areas, towns and cities especially where there is easy access to the rivers and streams where obviously people have been dredging for the last 25 to 30 years. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how many dredges have been dropped in them rivers. Especially where rivers are large enough to run the old drag line bucket dredges in. That’s not the case up here. Siskiyou County is one of the three northernmost gold producing counties of California. Most of the gold mined in this county has been from placers, the largest of which are along the Applegate, Salmon, Scott, and Klamath Rivers. The Applegate River and it’s tributaries have produced millions and millions of dollars of gold. Keep in mind their recovery systems were crap back then and they weren’t catching half of the gold going through their boxes. The new owner of this claim will be quite happy, I’m sure. This is truly a quality claim and located within a very rich and historical area. I am into quality and not quantity. Gold at today’s price (7-19-2008) is roughly around $954.30 per ounce and platinum is $1,842.50 per ounce and Silver is $18.11 per ounce and keeps fluctuating and is expected to keep climbing if not double their saying. You can check this out for yourself daily by going to: www.xe.com/ucc This claim can quite easily pay for itself obviously if a person took a little time and worked it. This is also a claim where a person can come down onto a crack or a crevace and fill up some coffee cans full of gold nuggets, but obviously that can’t be guaranteed, but no amount of gold can be guaranteed in the mining business. It’s all about location, location and known gold and actually performing some work. In this area and on this river this could quite possibly pay itself off with one crevice. I have found many good paying crevices and pay streaks on and around this river. Keep in mind that one, two, three and four ounce nuggets are not all that uncommon in this area.

You will see my signs nailed in trees along the border of this claim that say; CLAIM, NO MINING, CAMC 291743 and this is also an area where mining claims are well respected. This is truly a GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY for someone that is actually looking for a real quality gold producing claim.

"Golden Core," CAMC # 291743 is located and recorded in Siskiyou County. All the paper work is up to date. The new owner will need to file proof of labor for this up coming season on or before September 1^st 2008. This claim is also recorded properly with the BLM office. This claim is located in Township 48 N, Range 11 W, Section 19 of the Mt. Diablo meridian of Siskiyou county. This claim comprises the NW, SW, NE, SE 1/4's of the NE 1/4. Just walk in the Siskiyou County court house/recording office and look at the gold display they have there of the gold that came from Siskiyou county and this area. That will get your blood pumping and looking for gold.

We own quality claims on quality gold producing rivers and creeks such as; Middle Fork Applegate River, Elliott Creek, North Fork, South Fork, East Fork Salmon Rivers, Trinity River, Klamath River, American River, Middle Fork American River, Galice Creek, Illinois River, 40 Mile River in Alaska and the Yuba Rivers. For those of you who do have knowledge on gold producing rivers and creeks this tells you what we’re all about when it comes to claims. These rivers are without a doubt the richest gold producing rivers in this country. Some of these claims on the rivers mentioned above may come up for sale on Ebay in the near future. I do feel quite comfortable working my claims along side of other people I have sold to and have become acquaintances with a few of them. I am not some so called mining company or corporation, I am just a miner and have been for over 30 years from Alaska to the deserts. This portion of the river has enough water to support a 8 inch dredge easily during the hottest and driest part of the summer, but a 6 inch dredge is maximum size allowed by law. They do not come any better than this. There is exposed bed rock on this claim from one end to the other end making this claim excellent for dredging, high banking, hand sluice, panning, sniping, metal detecting and even dry washing. Some people even do quite well with their old rocker boxes up in here. You’ll spend the rest of your life dredging this claim and so will your grand kids. For the buy it now price of $9,500 you will make your money back on this claim easily. There is going to be no bid war on this claim. $9,500 is the price—first come, first serve. If you actually work this claim with equipment that catches the gold, I believe there is still an outrageous amount of gold left on this claim, but you are talking a lot of work and enjoyment and good times. 160 acres of claim with ½ a mile of river plus all the benches on both sides of the river is a lot of area. 20 acre claims on this river I have heard of selling for $5,000 to $10,000. I have found gold up over 100 ft. above the river on the benches where the old river and channels used to run. The old timers use to flume water from miles and miles to hydraulic the old river beds which are located hundreds of feet above this river which is still washing down gold into the river. A lot of the gold that has been laid into place on the Middle Fork Applegate River is actually from old ancient channels and that is where your real gold comes from. There are still people working some of these old dry river beds. You will find virgin bed rock in this area and on this claim. I have heard from old timers who live in the area of baseball size pieces of quartz just laced full of solid gold. I have gotten some nice nuggets myself off my claims in this area and seen and heard of some much nicer ones also. You will also have a good chance of finding some old coins and antiques. This is one of those areas where there was major gold being produced which drew many old miners to the area, roaming around the mountain side prospecting and sometimes hiding their gold and money in the woods and a lot of times they would die with there stashes still hidden. With the modern mining equipment and technology now days makes it so much easier finding the high paying pay streaks and rich crevaces. I run PRECISION DREDGES which catch large amounts of fine smoke gold/micron minus gold; other people might call this gold dust. This is something that you should really brush up on and learn how to recover micron minus gold out of your mercury. Then he runs the material out of my dredge over his shaker table which also catches very fine gold and then from there I run it through my amalgamator. By doing it this way he does not waste a lot of time panning it down which gives me more time for dredging and if you did it this same way with the same equipment or equipment equal to mine you will get good quantities of gold just like he does. More dredging time means more gold. You will probably notice there are head lights in my dredge photo on the air in-take, that’s right, I dredge at night also. I guess he’s got the FEVER wouldn’t you say? There are many spots on this claim where your dredge can be floating in the water out of sight from the road which always makes it nice. I have found that the people you will see in this area to be quite honest and nice, but you will not see or meet many people. Most people you will see will either be fishermen or hunters or miners. This is an excellent area for hunting and fishing. There’s not a bunch of yahoo’s around here. You would need a California dredging permit to be able to dredge on this claim. The price of a out of state dredge permit is $174.50 per year and a resident dredge permit is $44.25. This is also an excellent area for rock hounding, metal detecting, running a sluice, high banking or just panning. You will also find lots of old rusty quartz, old quartz and rose quartz in this area.

THIS IS HOW YOU GET TO THE CLAIM:

Just behind the 2^nd sign down on the river bank just down river a ways you will find my discovery post on the river bank with all the legal papers in it which I have provided a photo of. There was an actual legal discovery made on this claim and on all my claims. You are more than welcome to go look around and do some panning and see for yourself. While you are up there doing some sampling you will know your on some hot ground when you see all the black sands in with the gravel and the gold you will see in your pan. I don’t want any dredges there unless agreed upon with me first as I don’t offer free dredging vacations and I want the new owner of this claim to have the gold or I will keep it for myself. Seeing gold in the pan is believing. It is getting virtually impossible to locate a claim with any quantity of gold that you can actually make some money on. So keep that in mind and get in your rig and go see for yourself. If for some reason you can’t find gold on this claim it is time for you to seriously think of a new hobby such as golf, or stamp collecting as something just ain’t right.

Here is another tid-bit that you don’t usually see claim sellers telling you right up front. On any unpatented mining claim you do NOT own the actual land. You DO however own the mineral rights and the minerals being gold, silver, platinum, or whatever and the right to use as much of the surface of the land that is needed for your mining operation. I see a few people selling claims trying to side talk you, trying to get you to believe that you can build a home on an unpatented mining claim and getting you to think it is real property making you think you can do anything you wish or saying if you don’t understand just e-mail them knowing that most people don’t want to act like they don’t know what they are talking about and hoping they won’t ask. Why can’t they just tell you the truth straight up in type??? They try to make you think you own the land, but that is very un-true. With the proper plan of operation and notice of intent filed you probably will be able to build a storage shed to store your equipment in providing you are actually mining the claim. But I have good reason to believe if you file a plan of operation or notice of intent to build yourself a home on this unpatented mining claim or any unpatented mining claim with easy accessibility BLM/Forest Service is going to deny that request and tell you to pull a RV or travel trailer on said claim for your living quarters. In some cases when you have a very remote claim you can get permission to build a cabin for living quarters. You have the right to stay on the land while you are mining. You do not have to mine 24-7, you can take days off to relax as in any job. A lot of people like to spend the summer on their claim which one can do. You can actually stay on your claim all year if you’re actually working it. Most people stay on their claims in RV's, travel trailers, or wall tents, etc.... You can mine this claim 12 months out of a year, but you can only dredge during dredging season, but you can metal detect, hand sluice, high bank, snipe, pan, dry wash, etc.. If you do wish to use heavy equipment you would have to file a plan of operation and have it approved. You do have the right to hold this claim forever as long as you do the necessary paper work which consists of filing your annual labor form with the county of Siskiyou and performing $125 a year annual labor which is working your claim at least 6-8 hours per year and sending off your $10 fee to BLM along with your small miner waiver form. All these forms will be provided to the new owner. You may also have someone else perform that 6-8 hours for you if you wish. You have the right to sell the claim or subdivide portions if you wish, lease it, will it to anyone, so in other words this can be in your family for many years to come and this is definitely a claim worth owning.

I usually end my auctions early anyway to avoid last minute fraudulent bids. Once a deal was made between us and payment was sent you would then place a bid on Ebay and once payment was received and cleared then I would end the auction selling the claim to you. This way Ebay gets their fees like always. I reserve the right to end this auction at any time as I have this claim for sale elsewhere other than Ebay. All BLM and County Transfer of Ownership fees will be paid by us----We do not charge you transfer and document fees.

All fees and annual labor have been filed and recorded for this year. The new owner will not have to file anything until September 1, 2008. I do not use the buy it now button as I have had people click the button which I suspect to be other claim sellers and then you never hear from them again and my auction ends and then I have to re-list which cost me time and money. Some of these jokers like to win your auction just to leave a phony, fraudulent negative feed back on honest legitimate sellers like ourselves just to make themselves look good under one of their other user ID’s. Once payment is received by money order or cashier check or wire transfer and cleared a deed will be signed and notarized transferring ownership into the new owners name and recorded in the Yreka, California recording office. Along with the deed being mailed to you I will supply all the maps and necessary forms such as; small miner maintenance waiver form, assessment forms and other information you would need to know. I am quite sure you would be very pleased with this claim.

This would be a good claim to get a friend or two to go in with you. You will enjoy many years of dredging and prospecting this wonderful claim. This auction is for pre-approved (by myself) bidders only, so you will have to e-mail me and give me your name and a phone number, so I can add you to my pre-approved bidder list if I feel you are true bidder. I do this just to make sure you fully understand what your bidding on or buying and that you are a true bidder and not someone trying to ruin my auction or feed back like certain other claim sellers have tried to do. No offense, but that’s the way it has to be now days.

So sit down and scratch your head and think about what you just read and I hope your pan turns yellow on this claim or any other claim you may end up with. That’s what it’s all about.

Please do not ask a question that is already answered in this auction as I am very busy. Please read the whole auction. It is a lengthy auction and the answer to your question is probably in it if you look and that is the best map I can provide you. With the directions I have given the claim can be easily found.

 First come, First serve.