It was a lot of gold for the amount of material he was processing through his 5-inch dredge. To my knowledge, no-one ever returned to the area where Tony was dredging to pick up what he might have missed. Tony was dredging towards the road-side edge of the river, pretty near to the lower-end of K-11. And because of that, I made a special visit to Tony’s dredging site one day, and even swam down into his excavation to get a first-hand look. I was buying his gold, so I knew he was getting it.
I have had my eye on the lower-end of K-11 since all the way back to 1997, when founding Club member, Tony Steury, was dredging there with a 5-inch dredge, consistently recovering an ounce of gold per day. The claim is quite long and despite lots of successful activity, I don’t believe that most of the area has even been adequately sampled yet.
K-11 is a very productive section of river, both for dredging and surface-sluicing activity on the far side of the river. We conducted another Group Dredging Project towards the upper-end of this claim earlier in the season and did pretty well. This is located about 3 miles upriver from where Highway 96 crosses Seiad Creek, near the small town of Seiad. This Group Dredging Project took place towards the lower end of the Club’s K-11 claim (Hwy-96 mile marker 63.58) along the Klamath River, not far upriver from Schutt’s Gulch.
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