Years ago I chased the Blue Bucket. I did a lot of research and this is what I discovered. The bucket was blue because each party in the wagon train painted their camp equipment a different color so each party could identify their equipment easily. The first thing to figure out is which party had blue camp equipment. There exists an old manuscript, a personal journal of the trip, from a member of the blue party that describes the gold discovery. They didn't know it was gold at the time because the nuggets were a rusty brown color. Most thought it was copper. In describing the discovery, the author said that "the young people" had taken horses and gone to look for water. They found a dry wash that had potholes in the stream bed with water in them. It was in one of these potholes they found the nuggets. They estimated they were 10 miles north of the campsite. A guy named Charles Hoffman spent a summer in his old Ford Bronco retracing the entire length of the trail left by the Meek's Cutoff wagon train and wrote a book about it. The campsite when the gold was discovered is located north of Drewsey. No point searching there since the discovery was made 10 miles north of camp. 10 miles north of the Sept. 3rd campsite, puts the gold discovery site in the John Day country. There was a big gold rush there in the 1850s. The whole country around John Day was heavily worked during the rush. It's my theory that the Blue Bucket deposit was mined out, without notice, during the John Day rush because the story wasn't known at the time.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 I am organizing a party to go to the Dutchman Mines west of John Day. It's extremely remote so I won't do it alone. I have an old map. I don't think those mines show up on new maps, and I have never seen any information about them online.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 I found a big quartz crystal in a fox hole in a gully north of the old town of Ochoco, 20 miles east of Prineville. Some fox had brought it up from the stream bed. I walked up the gully and found 2 big holes where someone had been on the gold trail, but they were only about 5' deep. I figure the stream is about 20' down underneath ponderosa pine soil. I need some people who are good at shoveling. There's gold in them thar hills.
@Rockstar97321 20 feet down to paydirt, then maybe another 10 feet to bedrock. What you need is an excavator. If it were me, first I'd drill some test holes down to bedrock in the area you're interested in, and pan out what gets brought up. That should give you a better picture of where the best place to dig is. Good luck!
*The person who narrated this is clearly NOT an Oregonian!! 🤣 The pronunciation of Willamette, Clatsop, (My area) Nehalem, and the Dalles had me snickering!! I am a born and raised Oregonian. My children are second-generation, and my grandchildren are third-generation Oregonians!! I love this GREAT state!!! Some areas more than others. I love nothing more than to bask in our lush vegetation and wildlife. We are so VERY blessed to have such a beautiful state!!!* 🦆🦫🦆🦫🦆🦫🦆
Yes I love Oregon, live in Grants Pass but I have lived just about every town there is in Oregon. 😊 I love all these stories. Bless you, Have a treasure day😊
@moe42o *Greetings and blessings to you!! Oh, how I 💕 LOVE 💕 the Wallowa Mountain/Joseph area!! You are so VERY blessed to live there!! It is an absolutely breathtaking area!!* *P.S. I see by your profile picture that you are a fellow believer. Do you follow Dr. Greer and/or the disclosure movement?*
Klamath county here. I love hearing stories about my home state. New subscriber so you may have covered this. But! Klamath marsh has an interesting story.. and the word Klamath, has plenty of historical records..
I live just about 20 miles from all these spots. Would a high power metal detector work to find such a lode deposit?? I am about to purchase 2 different models. One is fully water proof to 18 feet and the other will detect veins down to 20 to 28 feet.....also have an old county map with all these places marked. Worth the time you think??? Ive heard the area is litered with pockets of lode gold and placer from the ancient rivers???
Hey I’m from Oregon Redmond actually. There is an old house on the river. The oldest extant house in the county we call it tetherow crossing. I found some silver there. Also I did some research and found what is supposed to be an unmarked grave of the four people that died on the lost meek train. It’s near grizzly mountain. It’s just a large pile of small stones. If you look close you can see the old wagon trail running along where the modern highway lays. Also you can see it on your phone from the satellite.
I enjoyed the stories that I have heard since my youth in Eastern Oregon. My complaints are the same as others...pronunciation and accurate pictures. Early in the video, you showed a Saquaro cactus that is only found in Arizona.
I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley. We pronounce it Will AM it. I am organizing an adventure into the Dutchmen mines of Central Oregon. I am a land surveyor. I have the old maps. There is no cell service. I use GPS. Let me know if you want to come. You will need a very dependable vehicle to come with us. You must have a chainsaw, and there are mountain lions. We'll have provisions for 2 months.🎉
I started going there a few years ago and it's just too sketchy. It's too remote for one man to attempt. It's a vast system of logging roads in a mountainous ponderosa pine forest. I won't do it without at least 4 vehicles. I have 2 RVs.
I grew up on the Oregon Coast. I have been studying the Neahkahnie Treasure story for 60 years. Almost everything in this video about that particular story is invented or wrong. The name of the galleon was the Santo Cristo de Burgos. All those treasure hunters were invented. There was no visit from Spanish authorities...no underground engineering of a spring (that story must have been swiped from Oak Island)...and no skeletons in a cave. Yes, recently (2022) wood from the treasure ship was found in a cave...but it was only identified in the last couple of years. The rocks with the symbols were moved to the Tillamook Pioneer Museum more than 50 years ago.Why does everything have to be sensationalized? The Neahkahnie Treasure story is great without all that embroidery. Btw, in 1994 I went looking for the Blue Bucket. I gave up pretty fast when I saw how hopeless it was.
Love to hearing stories. Thanks for sharing,
Love hearing stories of Oregon! Ty
Ok I wish Elon Musk would have got RUclips with his Google purchase Damn YT admins anyway.
Years ago I chased the Blue Bucket. I did a lot of research and this is what I discovered.
The bucket was blue because each party in the wagon train painted their camp equipment a different color so each party could identify their equipment easily. The first thing to figure out is which party had blue camp equipment. There exists an old manuscript, a personal journal of the trip, from a member of the blue party that describes the gold discovery. They didn't know it was gold at the time because the nuggets were a rusty brown color. Most thought it was copper. In describing the discovery, the author said that "the young people" had taken horses and gone to look for water. They found a dry wash that had potholes in the stream bed with water in them. It was in one of these potholes they found the nuggets. They estimated they were 10 miles north of the campsite.
A guy named Charles Hoffman spent a summer in his old Ford Bronco retracing the entire length of the trail left by the Meek's Cutoff wagon train and wrote a book about it. The campsite when the gold was discovered is located north of Drewsey. No point searching there since the discovery was made 10 miles north of camp.
10 miles north of the Sept. 3rd campsite, puts the gold discovery site in the John Day country. There was a big gold rush there in the 1850s. The whole country around John Day was heavily worked during the rush. It's my theory that the Blue Bucket deposit was mined out, without notice, during the John Day rush because the story wasn't known at the time.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 I am organizing a party to go to the Dutchman Mines west of John Day. It's extremely remote so I won't do it alone. I have an old map. I don't think those mines show up on new maps, and I have never seen any information about them online.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 I found a big quartz crystal in a fox hole in a gully north of the old town of Ochoco, 20 miles east of Prineville. Some fox had brought it up from the stream bed. I walked up the gully and found 2 big holes where someone had been on the gold trail, but they were only about 5' deep. I figure the stream is about 20' down underneath ponderosa pine soil. I need some people who are good at shoveling. There's gold in them thar hills.
@Rockstar97321 20 feet down to paydirt, then maybe another 10 feet to bedrock. What you need is an excavator. If it were me, first I'd drill some test holes down to bedrock in the area you're interested in, and pan out what gets brought up. That should give you a better picture of where the best place to dig is. Good luck!
@LuckyBaldwin777 That sounds about right, but I may attract the wrong kind of attention from the game officers if I took an excavator up there.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 I need to dig down and break open some bedrock.
Thank you for sharing these stories with us! ✌🏼😊
My pleasure!!
@@True-Tales-of-Buried-Treasure 👍🏻😊
*The person who narrated this is clearly NOT an Oregonian!! 🤣 The pronunciation of Willamette, Clatsop, (My area) Nehalem, and the Dalles had me snickering!! I am a born and raised Oregonian. My children are second-generation, and my grandchildren are third-generation Oregonians!! I love this GREAT state!!! Some areas more than others. I love nothing more than to bask in our lush vegetation and wildlife. We are so VERY blessed to have such a beautiful state!!!* 🦆🦫🦆🦫🦆🦫🦆
Yes I love Oregon, live in Grants Pass but I have lived just about every town there is in Oregon. 😊 I love all these stories. Bless you, Have a treasure day😊
@jadehunter7617 *Sending much love, light, and an abundance of beautiful blessings to you, my fellow Oregonian!!*
@@firewaterbydesign Cheers from the Wallowa Mountains! 🎉
@moe42o *Greetings and blessings to you!! Oh, how I 💕 LOVE 💕 the Wallowa Mountain/Joseph area!! You are so VERY blessed to live there!! It is an absolutely breathtaking area!!*
*P.S. I see by your profile picture that you are a fellow believer. Do you follow Dr. Greer and/or the disclosure movement?*
I admit, It took me a hot minute to realize it was the Willamette he was saying haha :D Hey at least he said Oregon correctly, right?
Klamath county here. I love hearing stories about my home state.
New subscriber so you may have covered this. But! Klamath marsh has an interesting story.. and the word Klamath, has plenty of historical records..
Thank you from a guy in south western Oregon😊
Thanks for watching, fellow Oregonian!
I'm on the Nehalem River love these stores
I found this interesting, thank you
Good video, I believe that Ed Shieffelin’s gold mine was in fact a pocket mine and was extremely rich but very shallow.
Maybe shallow but he had just found it. Was it ever rediscovered??
That’s a fascinating insight about the Ed Shieffelin mine!
Just my opinion, i haven’t heard of anyone rediscovering it.
I live just about 20 miles from all these spots. Would a high power metal detector work to find such a lode deposit?? I am about to purchase 2 different models. One is fully water proof to 18 feet and the other will detect veins down to 20 to 28 feet.....also have an old county map with all these places marked. Worth the time you think??? Ive heard the area is litered with pockets of lode gold and placer from the ancient rivers???
Willamette= Wi-LAM-it
The Dalles= The Dalls
Clatsop= Clat-sup
Pronunciation aside, great video. 👍
And a last hint to your tail is the bucket is green as the rebound of lite turns it blue
Hey I’m from Oregon Redmond actually. There is an old house on the river. The oldest extant house in the county we call it tetherow crossing. I found some silver there. Also I did some research and found what is supposed to be an unmarked grave of the four people that died on the lost meek train. It’s near grizzly mountain. It’s just a large pile of small stones. If you look close you can see the old wagon trail running along where the modern highway lays. Also you can see it on your phone from the satellite.
I enjoyed the stories that I have heard since my youth in Eastern Oregon. My complaints are the same as others...pronunciation and accurate pictures. Early in the video, you showed a Saquaro cactus that is only found in Arizona.
Yep I deer hunt this very area, there are no cactus to be seen.
The city got lost in Oregon that once was Oregan
Fun and interesting. It would be better if you knew how to pronounce area names properly and have the video match the region you are talking about.
You caught that to lol .
Unfortunately it's an AI voice
@@bobnankervis9722 Sounds like actor Peter Coyote's voice.
@@bobnankervis9722 I agree with you. And if AI is supposed to be all so wonderful, you would think they could teach Id how to speak properly.
AI VOICES SUCK
I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley. We pronounce it Will AM it. I am organizing an adventure into the Dutchmen mines of Central Oregon. I am a land surveyor. I have the old maps. There is no cell service. I use GPS. Let me know if you want to come. You will need a very dependable vehicle to come with us. You must have a chainsaw, and there are mountain lions. We'll have provisions for 2 months.🎉
South of Silver Lake?
Id love to go
@@whatwouldjanewaydo it's south of Rajneeshpuram and northeast of Prineville.
I started going there a few years ago and it's just too sketchy. It's too remote for one man to attempt. It's a vast system of logging roads in a mountainous ponderosa pine forest. I won't do it without at least 4 vehicles. I have 2 RVs.
Willamette is pronounced out here : Will am it -- Dam it !
Would be nice if narrators / computers..whatever could pronounce the names of the areas.
And alkid mine should be easy if one was the Caption to the Kidd
I grew up on the Oregon Coast. I have been studying the Neahkahnie Treasure story for 60 years. Almost everything in this video about that particular story is invented or wrong. The name of the galleon was the Santo Cristo de Burgos. All those treasure hunters were invented. There was no visit from Spanish authorities...no underground engineering of a spring (that story must have been swiped from Oak Island)...and no skeletons in a cave. Yes, recently (2022) wood from the treasure ship was found in a cave...but it was only identified in the last couple of years. The rocks with the symbols were moved to the Tillamook Pioneer Museum more than 50 years ago.Why does everything have to be sensationalized? The Neahkahnie Treasure story is great without all that embroidery. Btw, in 1994 I went looking for the Blue Bucket. I gave up pretty fast when I saw how hopeless it was.
He is not pronouncing the names of the places that these things occurred it's driving me crazy😢
It sounds like AI reading this
A wen went to the week to seek the meek and lost its meens of time
If anyone had a wagon train and buckets of blue at the same date then gold was not their seek as plastic on a wagon was worth more than gold
I'd love to watch , but this monotones voice is a killer
11:57 makes ya wonder what the military was really meant for..
These AI written tales are 95% embellishment of otherwise very short stories
The narrator really needs to learn the pronunciation of the named places.
I won't listen to anything where the narrator can't pronounce the names. Out at 3 minutes in. Tah!
I wish you would read these yourself instead of using AI. It kind of detracts from the podcast.
A.I narration sucks
Lol orecon is right you dead of lively soul..