A lot of people around here have gone looking. We have an old silver mine and several old copper mines in the area and people occasionally find garnets around here. I haven't seen anyone who found the ores but the largest garnet I've seen was about the size of a pea. The lady who found it has lived here all her life. A lot of the locals do that kind of looking just for fun. They seem to know places that are better than others to look. We also have a lot of fool's gold.

I like the old tractors. The caterpillar has been kept covered by a tarp which is so old it's beginning to rot. I really need to clean off the garden tractor and put a tarp over it too. I like it a lot better even though it doesn't have a brand name that I can find. I believe it is about the same vintage. I expect that the caterpillar was brought here with the miners or loggers. From how it looks now I can't even imagine someone being able to restore it. It's so rusted that you'd have to cut the parts to free them from each other! It would be really fun to see the thing put back together though. You can feel the history there.