Wild Horses

 

We were driving north on Highway 95 toward Quartzsite and saw wild horses close to the side of the road.  There is about a three mile corridor where there is some grass growing close to the road and thats where they were grazing.  It seems odd to find wild horses roaming around in such a deserty area.  Horses and burros were left behind in the area during the old mining days.  They have survived and as far as the burros are concerned they have thrived.  The Bureau of Land Management did a burro round up last April.  They rounded up over 400 burros from the area.  The burros are put up for adoption.  They say that there are still over 800 burros roaming free.  There are not as many wild horses.  I have not heard how many horses they think are roaming free.

 

We went to Quartzsite to work on the gold claims.  Our gold club memebership ends at the end of the month so we wanted to work one of the claims at least one more time.  We brought back a 5 gallon bucket of dirt and and so far no gold but we aren't to the bottom yet.  We bought a $25 bag of dirt that is guaranteed to have gold in it.  We wanted to test our gold wheel machine to make sure it works.  We ran the bag of dirt through it and we found lots of tiny gold.  Yes, the machine works so now we know we just haven't found any gold on our own with it.