rfm3
Super Handyman
Reged: 05/30/04
Posts: 17278
Loc: Western NY-Guarding the Border
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Petrified Wood
SOMEWHERE NEAR YAKIMA -- Clyde Friend was bulldozing a driveway around his shop when he first saw them in the dirt: gleaming pieces of the past. A forest of stone, more than 15 million years old.
For the past five years, on this hillside above Yakima, Friend has been pulling out pieces of rare petrified wood, no two pieces alike. Branches, trunks and slices in sunset colors. Pieces purple and blue as mussel shells. Pieces like winter sky, gray and white and all the tones in between. Pieces that ring like a bell when struck.
A local museum just paid him $150,000 for four short stumps, some polished slices and two tall trunks. And that was a discount price.
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Ray
The one and only tediously legendary one
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DonkeyDave
Reged: 12/12/03
Posts: 17085
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I found some pottery shards in my yard ho hum. 
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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FranS
The Boss Mare
Reged: 01/21/02
Posts: 39669
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he's got a geological goldmine. hope he called in the scientific pros.
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kframe19
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 03/05/03
Posts: 7126
Loc: Virginia
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I hope he doesn't run into problems with mineral rights.
Friends of mine were digging the footer holes for a new garage about 20 years ago and found an indian camp site that the state archaeologist dated to around 900-1000 AD.
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CabinConnection
Big Foot
Reged: 01/20/04
Posts: 18943
Loc: The Indianhead's Left Nostril....
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Let's see...
Call in the "authorities", the archaeologists, the museum folks... Put an indefinite halt to the project...
Or pretend nothing's there, save obvious valuable items for later resale, and get the structure built...
Quite a potential delima...
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FranS
The Boss Mare
Reged: 01/21/02
Posts: 39669
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no dilemna. do the right thing and you'll not run into any trouble.
as my daddy always said, "go by the book and you'll never get into trouble".
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CabinConnection
Big Foot
Reged: 01/20/04
Posts: 18943
Loc: The Indianhead's Left Nostril....
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no dilemna. do the right thing and you'll not run into any trouble.
as my daddy always said, "go by the book and you'll never get into trouble".
HA HA... I'm sure you're right Fran... But a phrase I used to have in my hockey daze comes to mind...
"It's only a penalty if the ref sees it!"
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FranS
The Boss Mare
Reged: 01/21/02
Posts: 39669
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shame on you. still don't make it right, caught or not...tsk tsk. slap with the ruler!
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Lungman00
veteran
Reged: 02/04/06
Posts: 1240
Loc: Barnegat, NJ
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"go by the book and you'll never get into trouble".
Some books are written by crooks.
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Bob_Q
Carpal Tunnel
Reged: 06/28/01
Posts: 9779
Loc: Albany area,New York
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Here in NY,Indians drive everyone nuts. Before anything can ge done with land,it has to cultivated for relics. A friend of mine was held up for over 10 years selling 90+ acres because a handful of arrowheads and pottery were found. He almost went bellyup from the costs.
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ABANDON SHIP!!!!
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