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March 1, 2003---Volume
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ABOUT ME:
My name is Floyd Mann. Currently I am sending you this ne
I retired 4 years ago (sold my 3 restaurants) and got married (second time) 3
years ago. My wonderful wife, Tara, is a travel nurse and still works. We have
been living in our motor home, and traveling a LOT, for 3 years. The past 3
years we have traveled about 40,000 miles in our motor home. We tow one car and
Tara follo
For 4 years I have been treasure hunting, and researching treasures, full
time--averaging about 70 hours per week on this "hobby" of mine. Although the
last 4 years I have been a "full-timer”, I had my first detector in 1971. From
1971 to 1998 I averaged about 30 hours a week on treasure hunting---mainly
research.
I have accumulated these resources for my personal research library: 4,000
older treasure magazines, hundreds of treasure books, a database of about 25,000
treasure magazine article references, about 10,000 treasure leads ( covering all
50 states ), and a lot of important contacts around the world. All of this, and
I am STILL looking for THE BIG ONE!
I tell you all of this information, just so you know who I am and to give you
some idea of some of the information I can, and WILL, share with you through
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WEBSITE:
Today,
March 1, 2003, is the official "Grand Opening" of my new website for treasure
hunters. Some of my ne
The website will also be a "work-in-progress". I will be adding new stuff to
the website every week! You will definitely want to bookmark it and check it
often!
What is on the website? Read it later, but here is a little info on it:
NEWSLETTER:
Click to subscribe (only if this was forwarded to you by a friend) ---otherwise
I already have you on my mailing list. PLEASE forward this ne
STATE TREASURES:
Click to view treasure leads for all 50 states. Today there are 250 (5 per
state) treasure leads to get the ball rolling. I'll be adding about 100 more
each month! In a year you will have 1,000 treasure leads in your files! FREE!!
WIN A DETECTOR:
Click to learn how to have a chance to win a detector---every 3 months! 3 other
prizes will be awarded EVERY month. No contest to enter---you just have to be a
registered subscriber to this ne
LINKS:
Click here to see some of my favorite websites that are useful to treasure
hunters. Email me YOUR favorites. Eventually this will be a long list of
helpful websites. If YOU have a website, please send me the address.
FORUMS:
Click here to visit about a forum where you can post your questions, stories,
tips, etc.
EVENTS:
Click here to learn about upcoming events around the U.S. Send me info on your
club's upcoming events and I'll list it in a future ne
INDUSTRY PRESS:
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RESEARCH:
Click here to access info about 19,000 articles that appeared in treasure-type
magazines over a 35 year period.
Well, that's a quick run-down on my new website:
www.LostTreasureUSA.com
PRIZES FOR MARCH
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At the end of each month a drawing will be held for 3 prizes. And then:
every 3 months a drawing will be held for a metal detector--in addition to the 3
prizes for that month!
So: at the end of May I will give away a quality metal detector. Details
will be published in a future ne
The prizes for March (to be drawn on March 31st) are:
(1) BURIED TREASURES YOU CAN FIND by Robert Marx---368 pages
(2) DUST IN THE WIND--A GUIDE TO AMERICAN GHOST TOWNS by Gary B. Speck--256
pages
(3) TREASURE RECOVERY FROM SAND & SEA by Charles Garrett--466 pages
GOOD LUCK!! I'll list the 3 winners in the April 1st ne
FUTURE PLANS
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A LITTLE HELP, PLEASE!
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FMDAC
I believe that there is strength in numbers. Too many areas are being closed
off to detectors. We need to start getting more organized in defending our
hobby.
The FMDAC (Federation of Metal Detector and Archaeological Clubs) is
dedicated to the preservation, promotion and protecting of the recreational use
of metal detectors. The FMDAC provides a forum to bring the entire metal
detecting community together.
Visit the FMDAC website at:
www.fmdac.com
Please decide if you can help support this organization in its fight to protect
our metal-detecting rights.
100 MUST-KNOW TIPS & SECRETS FOR TREASURE HUNTERS
Here is a FREE eBook I found on the internet! Click:
www.waybilltoadventure.com/SuccessToolkit/100Tips.html
This is a big download that requires WINZIP (or similar) software to unpack it,
and the Adobe Reader to read it. For Adobe Acrobat Reader:
www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
For WINZIP:
www.winzip.com/downhome.htm
The Waybill To Adventure site is one of my Favorites.
LET'S DO A SURVEY!
Give me your opinions! Email me (Floyd Mann at
LostTreasureUSA1@AOL.COM ) your
answers to these five questions and I'll post this group's answers in the next
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(1) Best treasure hunting website?
(2) Best treasure hunting forum?
(3) Best treasure hunting ne
(4) Best book a treasure hunter should own?
(5) Best all-around treasure hunter (dead or alive)?
TREASURE TALES
Today there are 250 treasure leads on my website at
www.LostTreasureUSA.com
On the 15th of this month there will be an additional 50! And then ANOTHER 50
on April 1st! By the end of 1 year I'll have over 1,000 treasure leads on the
website for your reading pleasure. Click here:
STATE TREASURES
TREASURE HUNTER'S CODE OF ETHICS
I love recreational metal detecting, as well as professional treasure
hunting. I urge everyone to encourage responsible conduct and strict compliance
with all local, state and federal regulations and restrictions, as well as
unconditional respect for the rights and property of others, and for those held
in common by us all. I take pride in our hobby and ask you to join me in
observing and promoting the following CODE OF ETHICS:
* I WILL respect private property and do no treasure hunting without the owner's
permission
* I WILL fill all excavations
* I WILL appreciate and protect our heritage of natural resources, wildlife,
and private property
* I WILL use thoughtfulness, consideration, and courtesy at all times
* I WILL build fires in designated or safe places only
* I WILL leave gates as found
* I WILL remove, and properly dispose of, all trash that I find
* I WILL not litter
* I WILL not destroy property, buildings, or what is left of ghost towns
and deserted structures
* I WILL not tamper with signs, structural facilities, or equipment
LOOKING FOR GHOST TOWNS?
Here are 2 sites that are good to start your research on ghost towns in your
state:
(1)
www.ghosttowns.com
(2)
www.google.com
Type GHOST TOWNS in the search box.
RESEARCH 101: THREE GREAT RESOURCES
The greatest amount of time you spend in treasure hunting should be spent in
research. Therefore, it is absolutely essential to locate the best sources of
information that will help you the most! I will give you some of the easiest
ones to locate and use. I use ALL of these to gather the most information I can
about a treasure I plan to seek.
Use your search engines! I personally like GOOGLE (www.google.com
). In their search window, just
type the key words of the treasure you want to know more about. EXAMPLE:
Utah+Lost Rhoades Mines. You will then get a page, or pages, of websites that
mention those two items. Scroll down through the list and view the websites
that interest you.
Your local library can be a huge help. If they don't have the book you want,
ask them to order it for you, through their inter-library system.
In the reference section of your library is a set of books called INDEX OF
PERIODICAL ARTICLES. You have to use these books in the library. These volumes
list almost every magazine article ever written, by month and year. If I were
looking for articles written about the Lost Rhoades Mines, I would start with
their earliest volume (lets say 1940) and look in the Index (back of book) for
Lost Rhoades. If there were any articles written that year, it will show you
the page number to go to for the name of the magazine, title of the article,
etc. Go through all of the volumes, to the current year, and you will probably
have a long list of magazine articles to look for. Ask the librarian for help
in locating the articles.
A third resource for you is my research database located on my website:
www.LostTreasureUSA.com. Click on
RESEARCH
to access about 19,000 treasure-type magazine article
references, taken from about 20 different magazine titles, over a 35 year period
(1959-1994). So: I'm looking for Utah+Lost Rhoades Mines. I will scroll down
to UT (Utah) and then scroll down through the approximately 175 articles written
about Utah treasures and look for magazine articles that mention Lost Rhoades.
I'll write down the ten, or so, article titles, along with the magazine title,
Volume, Issue, and page number. Then I just have to go about locating those
magazines! Where do I do that? Next article!
RESEARCH 102: ANOTHER THREE GREAT RESOURCES
I personally own about 4,000 older treasure magazines, and I have been selling
people the magazine that contains the article they want. So: feel free to
contact me with your "want" list. Email me at
LostTreasureUSA1@AOL.COM
. I have about 90% of the 19,000+ articles listed in my
RESEARCH
database. I charge $3.00 a magazine and I pay the shipping and handling.
Two other great sources of information are the two leading (for now!)
treasure magazines still in production that publish monthly magazines for
50,000+ subscribers monthly, each.
(1) WESTERN AND EASTERN TREASURES (www.treasurenet.com
)--usually about 70 pages. $4.95 ne
(2) LOST TREASURE (www.losttreasure.com
)--also about 70 pages. $4.95 ne
Both have good websites that change often, so I have both of them on my
Favorites list and I check them weekly. They have archives, sell back issues,
contests, treasure tales, and forums. Tell them Floyd Mann at LOST TREASURE USA
sent you !
BUILDING A LIBRARY---BOOK BY BOOK
If your budget allo
I'll also list a few of my favorite sources of books, videos, CDs, and maps
for researching treasure stories. Go to their website and order their FREE
catalogues. Please mention LOST TREASURE USA. In a few years you can build a
great library of your own.
(1) Kelly Co------------------------
www.kellycodetectors.com
(2) Waybill To Adventure---
www.waybilltoadventure.com
(3) K.B. Slocum-----------------
www.treasurenet.com/kbslocum
(4) Research Unlimited------
www.research-unlimited.com
(5) Cal-Gold----------------------
www.calgold.net
None of the companies I am mentioning in this issue of this ne
TELL ME A STORY!
Please feel free to send me any stories you might have. They can be about
your adventures or a treasure story you know about. Who kno
GOLD FEVER!
The Gold Prospectors Association of America (G.P.A.A.) was founded in 1968 to
preserve and promote the great heritage of the North American prospector. Being
a member allo
SHIPWRECKS
To learn more about the approximately 100,000 shipwrecks that have occurred
in North American waters in the past 400 years, I suggest 2 sites. (1)
www.northernmaritimeresearch.com
also sells a CD database of most of the wrecks
(2) Go to GOOGLE and search SHIPWRECKS to get a few pages of websites to bro
RELICS, ARTIFACTS, CIVIL WAR BATTLE SITES
TRY GOOGLE!!
TOKEN & MEDAL COLLECTORS
Wow! I do not collect tokens or medals, but I found out a LOT about the
thousands available to collect by going to the homepage of THE TOKENS AND MEDAL
SOCIETY:
http://www.money.org/clubs/tams/index.html
Any other websites like this ? Let me know!
MAPS AND AERIAL PHOTOS
When treasure hunting, or metal detecting, it is sometimes nice (if not
essential!) to have a map of the area. These are two websites I use to get a
map and/or aerial photo of a suspected treasure site.
(1)
http://terraserver-homeadvisor.msn.com
(2)
http://mapping.usgs.gov/partners/viewonline.html
What map and photo websites do you use?
A PROSPECTOR'S CHRISTMAS STORY
While I am not much of a prospector, I REALLY enjoy this story! One of my
Christmas traditions (like millions of others) is to watch the old movie "IT'S A
WONDERFUL LIFE”. Now I have added another tradition! This is a heart-warming
story about a prospector. It takes about 45 minutes to read the 6 chapters and
epilogue, so save it until you have some quiet time and can read it in one
sitting. Grab a beverage, turn on the speakers and enjoy! I imagine this as
one of those Hallmark Christmas Specials with Kenny Rogers as the prospector.
The author (“DOC”) is still a mining supply dealer in Nevada, I think.
http://www.kamakazi.com/auzum/miner1.html
UPCOMING EVENTS FOR MARCH
Click here:
EVENTS
and you will be taken to a list (on my website) that lists sho
LOTS OF FORUMS!
I know that a lot of you readers are members of some forums. I, myself, am a
member of about 50 forums. I read 48 of them once a month and never post on
them, but I do answer a lot of questions by email. I post on 2 forums and read
those 2 forums several times a day. With the addition of forums on my website,
I guess I'll be up to about a dozen forums that I will participate in.
One of the forums I post on is a Utah forum. The other forum that I post on
is one I own on Yahoo called ALL TREASURE TALES USA. I have about 96 members
there, but it is a real SLOW forum. Recently a friend of mine, Anthony Belli,
(he writes for publications) joined my forum and he has posted some great
stories that have helped. You are sure welcome to join me there and help spice
it up!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alltreasuretalesusa
On Yahoo there are about 60 forums for metal detecting, treasure hunting,
etc. These forums have 1 to 425 members. If you want to join another forum, or
2, or 60---go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com
and
then click on HOBBIES & CRAFTS. Then do 2 different searches; (1) Treasure
Hunting, (2) Metal Detecting. That should keep you busy for awhile!
The forum format on my website is new to me and I am still learning how to
use it, so if you have any questions on it---just email me.
FUTURE NE
I am interested in hearing from you if you have info on these 6 topics, that are
personal interests of mine, and I'd like to publish articles about them: (1)
KGC (Knights of the Golden Circle), (2) The LUE Map, (3) The Peralta Maps, (4)
Lost Dutchman Mine, (5) Montezuma's Aztec Depository, (6) 17 Tons of Gold Fly-In
in NW New Mexico. I am collecting everything I can get hold of for future
articles.
LostTreasureUSA1@AOL.COM
SERVICES AVAILABLE??
Please let me know if you (or someone you know) provides these services: (1)
GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar), (2) LRL (Long Range Locator), (3) Map Do
Some readers, like me, are always looking to learn more about these
lesser-known treasure hunting tools and techniques. I hope to collect some good
material for future ne
A BIG "THANK YOU”!
I'd like to make a very public "THANK YOU" to 2 guys that have helped me out a
lot lately.
THANKS to webmaster Lee Hinman for all of his hard work on this ne
THANKS to Steve Clemens for organizing all of my notes, disks, and CDs into a
very readable CD that is now downloaded into the RESEARCH portion of the
website.
They both have many hours involved in these two projects.
NEED A PARTNER?
Are you working on a treasure and maybe need some help in the recovery of it? I
might be able to help you. Email me at:
LostTreasureUSA1@AOL.COM
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