Them Arkey hicks blew up a safe!!!!!!!...* PHOTOS *....

[tabdog]

I was hitting play grounds in local parks looking for a diamond ring. As I was driving through a park I noticed a trail going into the woods and up a hill. I decided to see what was up there. There was rocks piled in strait lines and domestic plants growing in the wild. I found at least two graves. One of them had a head stone. It read " DIED 1864 ". So I got my Cibola and went back up there. I went down the hill a little form the graves and about the third target was a musket ball? I tuned my MD for musket balls and found 3 more. Very little trash and no modern ammunition. It was raining so I came back the next day and found several more musket balls and part of a safe Tumbler with numbers on it. I cleaned it up and it looked like it had been blown off a safe!

I found it on the east side of the hill and I figured it came from the east. I came back and started where I found the tumbler part and headed east in a zigzag patten. All I was finding was musket balls, occasional trash and a few shot gun shells. I found a total of 41 musket balls of a different calibers.

All of a sudden there was iron every where. I dug several pieces of the safe up along with ax head, file, mason jar lids, steel rod with eyelet, spoon, the brass emblem with ceramic inlay and company name. The Model number is "1907 M". I found a strange little vile with horizontal corrugations that did not corrode much. Could that have held explosive? I found the emblem about 40' west of the blast site. Found another twisted piece of tumbler 90' west of blast site. Found another twisted piece of tumbler about 120' west of the blast site. This piece of tumbler had an almost 3" diameter plug of the 1" thick iron door that had been ripped out of it. The first piece of tumbler I found was about 230' west of the blast site. I am a retired professional land surveyor and my distances should be fairly close. Although I did not measure it.

 

[tabdog]

Photos are talked about in perviois post

 

[d-2]

David, the part under the ax and to the left looks like it came from the top of a wood stove. And the piece to the left of
that looks like it is the part that sat on a gas stove that the skillet rested on. Aint no doubt someone blowed a safe.
Maybe there is some gold or silver scattered around there. Keep looking. What caliber are the musket balls???d2

 

[tabdog]

one inch by two inches solid iron. This safe had two wheels on the door that fit in those recesses. The recess is approx the same size as a stove burner. Have you ever seen a gas stove with a cast iron top. I think I can see where the safe emblem was mounted to the cast iron that looks like a wood stove top. I have a post that fell off the emblem when I dug It. There is a matching broken brass stud in the cast iron in a spot just big enough to hold the emblem. Have you ever seen a gas stove with cast Iron frame to go in the burners. If it were a stove it would be a wood stove, and no wood stove I know of has a cast iron skeleton frame to go over the hole where the flat round lid fits into the recess. There are several other reasons I don't Believe this is a stove top. At close look and on the back it is different than any stove construction I've ever seen. There Is nothing out there but musket balls and a small amount of modern trash. If I was able to find stove parts it wouldn't be at the blast site only and no where els. The odds of those parts being at same spot as the blast and no where els is remote at best. I have just as many reasons to believe that is the blast site.

I agree that it's possible that there are stove parts there, but chances are remote as I see it.

May good fortune come your way

 

[tabdog]

maby they had a make shift stove? Different stuff put togather.

I found out that the emblim I was talking about did not come from the square hole in the iron that looks like a wood stove.
I did a search and found out that the emblim is actually a 161st Artellery Regiment insignia.
The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 161st Field Artillery Regiment on 16 May 1928.

That raises more questions.

You know, maybe they just forgot the combination

No telling what they gad in those mason jars. I dug all the broken glass from one of the jars that was next to the lid.

Cheers

 

[tabdog]

Some one blew open a safe. Probably the owner. They took it out there so they wouldn't damage any property.

Later, hunters used it as a camp site and one of them may have lost his regiment insignia.

Possibly, later some one removed the safe.

I'm going to continue hunting the site as long as it holds my interest. I have lots of other treasures that need my attention and not enough time to get to them.


Happy hunting