Treasure Seekers of San Diego (TSS) will hold their monthly chapter meeting on Wednesday, February 5th at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 210 Park Ave., Escondido CA 92025. The doors open at 6:00 pm.    Click Here for a Map.

Main Points of Discussion

Guest Speaker: Thor Strom

Finds of the Month: Bring in your Finds of the Month. This is what you have ‘found’ during the last month and falls into three categories.

• Gems and Minerals
• Gold
• Metal Detecting

Show off what you have done in the last month and there is a prize for the winner of each category.

Items available for purchase at the meeting:

• TSS Claim Guides – $20.00 per guide with proof of your TSS membership card.
• TSS Dowsing Rods – $25.00 per set.
• TSS Bags of Gold Pay Dirt - $12.00 per bag
  • Limited to 4 bags per member
  • One in every 10 bags will have a ‘little’ something extra!
  • One in 50 has a picker!

Monthly Opportunity Drawings at the meeting:

• Door Prize Drawing (Free ticket for coming)
• 50/50 Drawing ($1.00 per ticket)
• Gold Nugget Drawing ($1.00 per ticket)
• Table Drawing ($1.00 per ticket)

Quarterly Grand Prize Drawing (March 2014 Meeting):

• Teknetics® Eurotek® 450
• Features Never Before Seen in This Price Range!
  • Turn-On-And-Go, 3-Button operation
  • Variable Iron Discrimination
  • Lightning-fast recovery speed
  • Motion Discrimination Detector
  • Great target separation; excels in iron-infested sites

So many things to remember and so many things I may forget to say here. First, let’s start with the Freedom Claim outing.
Randy Oyler was our Wagonmaster out there. Maybe we don’t call them Wagonmasters anymore, but he did such a great
job, I’m glad to say he was our Wagonmaster. Got some great calls and emails that he did a great job and everyone found
gold and learned how to find it. He gets the thanks from everyone who attended the outing.

Lee Crnkovic passed on Friday the 21st at 9:15 AM. He and Sharon were able to see the check we gave of $840.25 before his
passing. They were very grateful and sent us a thank you card. For Lee, there will be a service held at the Emmanuel Faith
Church in Escondido at 629 E. 17th Ave. Saturday, March 8 at 10:00 am with a reception and light refreshments after.

Many of you have read about the more than $10 million in gold coins found on a couple’s property this past month. 1,427
coins dated 1847 to 1894. I believe they were not even looking for anything in particular. Just found a can sticking out of the
ground. The pair wish to remain anonymous to keep those with metal detectors away from their property.

Also some good press in the news about the Temecula Valley Prospectors on how the drought is making gold prospecting
easier. The streams may be dry, but that only makes it easier to get out in the middle of the stream beds, dig under the
boulders. We went out to the GPAA Bautista claim and did just that. Some promising pieces were found by the TVP. While
typing up this message, I got a phone message of another newspaper writer that they may be interested in doing an article
on our experiences at gold prospecting. Gary Warth did a large article while camping on the Friendly Fox claim in the
Cargos.

We went to the Julian Mining Company in Julian to see about having an event with them. They liked us so much that they
want us to be a part of the Julian Gold Rush Days and any other event they might put on. We made such a great impression;
they contacted the GPAA and let them know that they wish us to represent us, the TSS, as well as the GPAA. So the TSS will
have a free booth there on the 31st of May and 1st of June. There will be a sign up at our next couple of meetings. We will have
a booth like at the Bates Nut Farm with free events for the kids. They also have some interesting events that I know they will
share with us. Ray is helping set us up for the Vista Strawberry festival the weekend before the Julian event. I need to get
busy to see if we can also set up for that one too.

We also have the elections coming up in April. We will have the nominating committee set up to look for some new
members taking over the positions of Treasurer and President. I know I can’t stay in this position forever and I know you
must know someone who may want to step in and do a great job. And there are those who like to handle the treasurer
position of this organization.

Temecula Valley Prospectors are going to be with us at the Hauser Geode Beds this month. No use telling you that this
outing will be the third weekend of the month. We also have some great speakers lined up for the next few months.
Everything is going good for the organization and everything is going great for the president. I know I haven’t mentioned
everything here. If I have forgotten anything here, please let me know. See you at the meetings.

Sourdough Chet

The Treasure Seekers of San Diego County’s official newsletter is called Finders Keepers and is published monthly. It contains information about the organization, interesting articles, as well as good information about Gold Prospecting & Treasure Hunting. The links below are for the newsletters published during 2014. Each newsletter is a PDF file and when you click on the link it will open up in a new browser window for you to read. If you would like to save a copy to your local computer, simply right-click the link and select “Save Link As”.

I hope you enjoy them and may your prospects be Golden.

March 2014

Previous Months:

February 2014

January 2014

2013 Newsletters

Treasure Seekers of San Diego County (TSS) will be holding their monthly chapter meeting on Wednesday, June 4th at 6:00 pm.

We currently meet at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 210 Park Avenue Escondido, CA 92025.

Click Here for a map.

Treasure Seekers of San Diego County (TSS) will be holding their monthly chapter meeting on Wednesday, May 7th at 6:00 pm.

We currently meet at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 210 Park Avenue Escondido, CA 92025.

Click Here for a map.

Treasure Seekers of San Diego County (TSS) will be holding their monthly chapter meeting on Wednesday, April 2nd at 6:00 pm.

We currently meet at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 210 Park Avenue Escondido, CA 92025.

Click Here for a map.

Treasure Seekers of San Diego County (TSS) will be holding their monthly chapter meeting on Wednesday, March 5th at 6:00 pm.

We currently meet at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 210 Park Avenue Escondido, CA 92025.

Click Here for a map.

Treasure Seekers of San Diego (TSS) will hold their monthly chapter meeting on Wednesday, February 5th at the Joslyn Senior Center located at 210 Park Ave., Escondido CA 92025. The doors open at 6:00 pm.    Click Here for a Map.

Main Points of Discussion

Guest Speaker: To Be Announced

Finds of the Month: Bring in your Finds of the Month. This is what you have ‘found’ during the last month and falls into three categories.

• Gems and Minerals
• Gold
• Metal Detecting

Show off what you have done in the last month and there is a prize for the winner of each category.

Items available for purchase at the meeting:

• TSS Claim Guides – $20.00 per guide with proof of your TSS membership card.
• TSS Dowsing Rods – $25.00 per set.
• TSS Bags of Gold Pay Dirt - $12.00 per bag
  • One in every 10 bags will have a ‘little’ something extra!
  • One in 50 has a picker!

Monthly Opportunity Drawings at the meeting:

• Door Prize Drawing (Free ticket for coming)
• 50/50 Drawing ($1.00 per ticket)
• Gold Nugget Drawing ($1.00 per ticket)
• Table Drawing ($1.00 per ticket)

Quarterly Grand Prize Drawing (March 2014 Meeting):

• Teknetics® Eurotek® 450
• Features Never Before Seen in This Price Range!
  • Turn-On-And-Go, 3-Button operation
  • Variable Iron Discrimination
  • Lightning-fast recovery speed
  • Motion Discrimination Detector
  • Great target separation; excels in iron-infested sites

The Treasure Seekers of San Diego County’s official newsletter is called Finders Keepers and is published monthly. It contains information about the organization, interesting articles, as well as good information about Gold Prospecting & Treasure Hunting. The links below are for the newsletters published during 2014. Each newsletter is a PDF file and when you click on the link it will open up in a new browser window for you to read. If you would like to save a copy to your local computer, simply right-click the link and select “Save Link As”.

I hope you enjoy them and may your prospects be Golden.

February 2014

Previous Months:

January 2014

2013 Newsletters

We had a great outing this past month. David Rice took us on the Painted Gorge trip. It was a bit larger than David likes it but Hey! He does a great job and everybody knows it. 42 people from three different organizations. So what did they see? From fossils to petrified wood to gems and other minerals plus the explanation of geological events that happened thousands to millions of years ago.

This month Randy Oyler will be our guide to one of our claims on the Summit Range out in the Randsburg area. We will be on the Smokin’ Claim. If Conrad Eury goes too, I’m sure they both will help guide you to some of the good spots out there. If you are planning on taking a motorhome, maybe the best spot might be the Freedom Claim to camp.

John Howe is making up a new email mailing list for TSS. It’s getting too big with a lot of names of those who no longer attend the meetings. For those who have not attended 3 or more meetings, you might find out you are not getting that information on what is going on in our organization.

Another matter concerning your attendance and our Claims Guide. Updates to the Guide will not be given to you unless you have, on your person, a current membership card. Maintenance fees and other organizational costs come from your participation at our meetings. If you don’t attend it’s only fair that you are eliminated from the membership and the Claims Guide list.

P.S. If you are not a member, you cannot, legally, prospect or mine the Treasure Seekers’ claims.

We have two upcoming events. We have been asked to participate in the Julian Gold Rush Days and we are working on participating in the Vista Strawberry Festival. Julian will be a 2 day event. I don’t know about the Strawberry Festival. These are like the GPAA Gold Show, but on our local turf. We don’t have to travel for miles and miles and pay big hotel fees to participate. This will take man and women power to run. We will have a signup sheet to see if we have enough members to run this operation. The big snag is they will be on the 4th and 5th weekends of May. Two weekends in a row. Some can sign up for one and others sign up for the other. We can do it and have lots of fun.

Also, upcoming is the election of officers in April. We have the offices of President and Treasurer to refill. I know what you are thinkin’. You know it has to change sooner or later and this is the time to give it some thought. Somebody else has to start running this organization and it might as well be you. There are many facets
to running this Treasure Seekers; much of it can be delegated.

Last item here is PLP support. It’s costin’ big time to fight all the battles to keep our public lands open for us to enjoy, prospect and mine on. The dredging court battle is coming up again, I believe in April. They are even helping in the battle of Buckman Springs road closures. We gotta’ help them all we can. TSS is trying to do their
part, but you gotta’ do yours.

Sourdough Chet