03-20-2019, 11:25 PM
There was a gold mine (Gold Strike, I believe) upstream of the wash until the 1990s plus there is at least 1 gold panning club with rights to a stretch of Beaver Dam Wash. Where we panned is dry 90 percent of the time most years.That year the wash flooded tremendously. There was debris 30 feet up in trees where the wash is hundreds of yards wide. We panned just above the Utah Arizona Border as the water retreated from tens of thousands of cfs down to maybe 20 cfs over a couple months. I own the land and we bought the pan as a spur of the moment ideal just knowing gold would likely have come down with the extreme flooding that year. After those floods was also a very good time to find exposed petrified wood in Washington County at about 5000 ft. Opposite problem there. I’d find whole petrified trees sections from 5 to 50 feet long. Most where too hard to crack with a slugde hammer. Only sparks would fly with each strike. Did find a single weaker trunk that got through with about a hundred strikes. Took home a hundred pound trunk of petrified tree.
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