Posted on 04/01/2009 9:35:14 AM PDT by OneVike
Strange Discovery on Table Mountain
Jack Lee
Mark Filcher woke up early in the morning, had a shower, put on his jeans and tee shirt and downed a strong cup of hot black coffee, as he prepared for another day at his pit mine. But, this one particular day would differ from all the rest in a most unusual and significant way.
Mark owns a 12.5 acre parcel on Table Mt., where he's done some prospecting with modest results for the last 23 months. And he was back at work last Monday, scratching at the ground in his big yellow John Deere backhoe in an open pit mine located in the northeast quadrant of Table Mountain about 500 yards off Cherokee Road.
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The old Indian legend is that the top of Table Mountain was cut off by Coyote and taken to the middle of the Valley so he’d have a dry place to stay in winter and where it is now known as the Sutter Buttes.
My uncles used to take me along when they went deer hunting up there, back before it was carved up into small parcels. I have to admit that Table Mountain never looked much good as a gold claim or as dinosaur habitat. All I ever saw up there was manzanita and jack rabbits.
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Never mind. It was an April Fool’s joke.
Okay. Thanks anyway.
Yes, I did - Old Indian legends not withstanding. ;0)
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