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270465 scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> 2020‑04‑08 Re: Old Bony
Hey Ed!! Thanks for the clue!
  Yup, there can be no doubt what it is. Not off the menu at all!
Its just rare to see anything like this locally.

Not a chance of a grain elevator within 200 miles.  Rocky soil, steep 
mountain country has few opportunities to grow a big crop of grain.
         I am wondering though. The mine aspect sounds good.

  I wonder if the plane was about jointing planks for mining flumes. 
They built sometimes impressive channels, miles of ditching and large 
wooden flumes to cross the deep places.
To bring in water for placer mining.

There is an old mine downriver from me that was all done by hand.
Just walking through it makes you feel like an ant!   There are 
literally miles of ditches fanning out, bringing several creeks into play.
   A large flume would need a way to keep water from gushing out the 
bottom of it?

Still no idea what it was boned.
And it does appear to be bone from the grain. Ivory might put it in the 
jeweler category? haahah

I once saw for sale, (but they wanted too much), a jointer plane at 
least 5' long.
Not a coopers tool, this one was too narrow (about 2 1/2" blade maybe) 
and had a tote on it.
Asking around that time it was John Walters who identified it as a tank 
jointer.
We had lots of sometimes sizeable redwood water tanks that were built on 
the spot.
  Holding water for mining tactics. Seemed perfectly logical the minute 
he said it.

I wouldn't be surprised to find flume planks were also being jointed.

Yeah the Klamath river valley was once touted as "A million dollars a 
mile!"
(when gold was 20 dollars an ounce)   They said some places they picked 
it up like berries in a patch.

The county courthouse used to have a fantastic display of nuggets the 
size of your hand and goose eggs etc,...........plus pans, boxes and 2 
gallon buckets full of smaller gold nuggets.

Sadly a few years back some guys broke in (next door to the police 
station with patrol cars parked all around??) and stole it.
The "thieves" were quickly caught, but no gold was ever recovered.
   yours scott

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