Idaho Treasure Hunters

As many Idaho Treasure Hunters subscribers know, besides being the best (kidding) treasure hunter in the state of Idaho, I am also a vocalist/guitarist and have been for most of my life.  For Christmas this year my wife and I decided instead of sending out Christmas cards we would go a little more personal and create a music video.  The lead vocals are performed by me, and backup vocals are performed by my wife Sheila.  Sheila also put the video together, and I believe she did quite well and has found her true calling in life.

We wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a happy  New Year.  If you like the video, or even it you don't, please leave a comment, share it on face book, twitter it, like it, etc.

Yes, I have been bad.  I haven't posted in over a month.  Too many irons in the fire, I guess.  I have plenty of material for posting, especially in the "Idaho Historical Markers" series.  My goal was to post little tidbits about historical sites in Idaho once or twice a week, but that hasn't happened lately.

Part of the reason I have neglected my posts is because I started a traffic exchange.  What is a traffic exchange?  It is a site where you can sign up for free and list websites you would like to promote and banners as well.  The sites you promote will be viewed by thousands of people around the world who like you, also want their sites to be viewed.  Although the site is free, those who don't have the time to surf can upgrade their accounts to one of the "pro" levels for a small monthly fee.  On occasion, you can win cash by surfing my traffic exchange, and you are paid cash for referrals that you send to the exchange that activate their accounts.  Currently, through networking with other traffic exchanges, your sites can be viewed by over 80,000 people!  That is a lot of traffic!

If you would like more information about my traffic exchange send me an email.  This is a treasure hunting site, so I won't spend the time with all the details here.  However, if you would like to visit the site or sign up, go to Songman Hits for info.  If you sign up, add -ITH to your user name so I know that you came from Idaho Treasure Hunters and I will add an additional 500 credits to your account to promote your websites.

I will try and throw in a post related to Idaho Treasure Hunters on Monday, so stay tuned!  Happy Holidays to all!
 

Location of Idaho historical marker:  U.S. 12 – Milepost 27.8 At Lenore Rest Area

Slaterville served as the steamboat port for the Clearwater gold rush, which followed mineral discoveries at Pierce in 1860.

Founded by Seth A. Slater, May 6, 1861, Slaterville (permanent population 50) had five edifices built mainly of colored blankets, two stores, two houses, and a saloon.  When the Colonel Wright "snapped her towline on the Grand Rapids and went whirling through the Big Eddy" just below here, May 13, Lewiston was founed to replace the new port.  One more steamer reached here June 1, but Slaterville was doomed.

This is the first time in the year-and-a-half this blog has been in existence that I am late announcing the winner in our monthly drawing.  As you can see from my last post, things have been quite hectic lately.  I am still preparing for my trip to Denver for my audition on America's Got Talent.  Thanks to the MANY emails about what song I should do I chose "If I Can Dream."  I won't know until April if I pass this portion of the audition.  If I do, then I have to do it again in front of the celebrity judges which will be recorded for live TV.  Enough about that, now for our winner.

The winner in the September drawing for metal detecting and treasure hunting E-Books is Ron from Hawaii.  Ron, let me know your book choices and I will get them to you within a few days.

Make sure you keep entering by commenting on posts, posting in the forum, sharing and liking posts on Facebook  re-tweeting on Twitter, using the entry form, etc.  There are plenty of ways to enter daily in our monthly drawing.

First, Let me apologize that I haven't posted in awhile.  I wanted to get information about the Idaho Historical markers at least once a week, but let me tell you how interesting life has been in the last few weeks.

My wife had to go into the hospital for emergency surgery to remove her gallbladder a few weeks ago.  She had several stones blocking the bile duct so nothing could get through.  the creme dal la creme is that the gallbladder is about the size of a man's fist, but she had a stone inside the gallbladder the size of a golf ball.  Go to your golf bag and take out a ball and tighten your hand around it so you get the full picture…….  It took three-and-a-half hours for a one-hour operation.  She is doing fine now, but it was rough the first few days she was home.  Big thing now is medical bills because being self-employed we don't have medical insurance.

The other news is that yours truly is auditioning for America's Got Talent as a vocalist or vocalist/guitarist.  Now, before you all fall out of your chairs let me say I do have a good amount of experience in the field.  I know you only hear me talk treasure, but I have other interests besides treasure hunting.  I will be leaving for Denver, Colorado on October 7, and will return approximately October 12 or 13.  I then go immediately into doiing sprinkler blowouts which will tie me up until almost Thanksgiving.  I will try, however, to keep the posts coming during that time.  If you would like to hear some of my vocal samples you can go to http://www.songmanentertainment.net and click on "vocal samples."  If anyone would like to donate to help finance the trip to Denver, please use the "donate" button on the right side of this blog.

Now on to my regular post.  I couldn't find very much information about this particular historical marker, but my goal is to write about every historical marker in the state of Idaho.

Location of Idaho historical marker:  U.S. 12 – Milepost 27.6, at Lenore Rest Area

Indians have lived next to this good fishing hole for 10,000 years.

As long as 3,000 years ago, they had large oval houses, 28 feet long by 24 feet wide.  To build these houses, they put a bark and mat covering over a frame of 50 or so house posts.  Four or more families lived in a house this size.  From their village here by the river, they went out to hunt deer or to dig camas.  They had to travel widely in their constant search for food.