Most of you think of a camping lantern as a round green thing, with
possibly a curly flourescent light bulb, or maybe the old kind
with propane or white gas and a mantle.
But those lights don't focus the light where you might need
it. They also shine light all over the camp distracting other
c
Underground Texas Grotto meeting – July 1, 2009
www.utgrotto.org
The meeting is on Wednesday from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
on the University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
The Program for the meeting will be…
2009 J2 Expedition www.usdct.org
Geary and John,
Your posts of yesterday and today prompt me to forward correspondence from
Thursday with Thomas Sitch concerning Gold and silver mines in Texas. The mine
near Concan that Geary mentions is the one or ones at "Silver Mine Pass" which
are located on Gov. Dolph Briscoe land. On 2-2
texascavers Digest 26 Jun 2009 18:00:56 - Issue 786
Topics (messages 11107 through 11120):
Texas Caver
11107 by: Mixon Bill
11109 by: Charles Goldsmith
1 by: Mark Alman
Re: camping at ICS ?
11108 by: bcow911.satx.rr.com
Re: Gold mines in Texas
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John Brooks said:
>In southern Oklahoma (north of here, in case you were wondering)there
>are legends of someone absconding with 20 "jackloads" of gold
Hmm, that is suspiciously similar to some of the legends of the lost
Bowie Mine around Menard. (What's a jackload? Pr
I'm looking forward to it, it's on my calendar.
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:16 PM, wrote:
> I've put this on my calendar for June 30, 2009 @ 8:00 PM EDT.
>
> I will be calling from 540-449-5420.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Charles Goldsmith [mailto:wo...@justfamily.org]
> Sent: Tuesday,
I've put this on my calendar for June 30, 2009 @ 8:00 PM EDT.
I will be calling from 540-449-5420.
-Original Message-
From: Charles Goldsmith [mailto:wo...@justfamily.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:06 PM
To: ad...@caves.org
Subject: Re: [It-chair-search] Scheduling Phone Time
Eve
Joe,
Thanks for sending this bit of nostalgia from the days of my youth. I don't
remember having met Mrs. Shahan but I did meet Happy Shahan during the early
construction period of Alamo Village. Somehow, friend Jimmy Walker heard about
the project and being a writer, photographer and "Spelunker
Webb Cave is on that property as well as several other smaller caves, I
believe.
-Original Message-
From: David [mailto:dlocklea...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 9:14 AM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com
Subject: [Texascavers] Alamo Village
Isn't Webb Cave is on their property ?
Isn't Webb Cave is on their property ?
Is that a cave, cavers would want to have easy access to ?
Are there any other caves there ?
According to the web-site below, Ghost-face Bats have been seen at this cave.
http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/mormmega.htm
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/Ranchwoman_Shahan_owned_Alamo_Village_compound.html
A half century after John Wayne died on film defending the Alamo, the
re-creation of the icon of Texas history has lost its main caretaker.
Virginia Shahan, widow of rancher Happy Shahan, who owned the
When checking a cave near Montell and Camp Wood years ago...we were
shown a pit that the landowner claimed was an old silver mine. I was
dubious..but we checked it. And it was obviously an excavated hole...and
not a cave.
In southern Oklahoma (north of here, in case you were
wondering).
That's an "interesting" phone booth, Gill!
How was the view and the odeur nauséabonde?
Mark
From: bgillegi...@gmail.com [mailto:bgillegi...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Gill
Edigar
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 5:13 PM
To: Alman, Mark @ IRP
Cc: Sheryl Rieck; texascavers@texascav
Greeting Cavers and Spelunkers an other numerous and notorious Troglodyte types,
The July 2009 issue "Volume 24 # 7" of the Permian Basin Speleological
Society's "The Hole News" is now on the web in Adobe PDF format.
It can be found at the URL listed below:
http://www.caver.net/pbss/holenews/p
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