Talk:Charles Barkhouse/@comment-2602:CF:7670:C200:C8DA:5CF1:11F:11D0-20171206060524

Charles, Bob Snyder here. I have some comments regarding the search on Oak Island. First my history so you know a little about me. I was a logger for five years, went back to school then i was an electrical power engineer for 33 years. In that time I became a gold miner also and treasure hunter. My twin brother and I saw an actual treasure exhiumed from an area of Fort Columbia at Chinook, Washington. It belonged to an old sea captain that owned the property before the Army took over. The cedar chest contained gold coins, gold slugs and jewelery and some dresses his wife wore. The sil dresses were in very poor shape because of water intrusion. The two men that dug it up were from Portland and Vancouver. Next, on to what you people are doing. First it was mentioned that there was a gold mine on the island at one time and that a ship load of ore was sent to England where it was found out that it was iron pyrite. I say bull to that and that the actual find was covered up. Those men back then knew what gold looked like and would have never sent a whole ship load of worthlless ore to England. Next, to fill a ship with ore they would first sit and high grade it to keep from sending worthlless rock on a long sea voyage They also knew what gold looked like and would have tested it before shippng so I believe by a known amount of ore that there are extensive tunnels on the island. The 200 foot shaft that is now being sunk is a testament to that. An aerial survey with a magnetrometer should be done and looking for the waste pile for the mine is also important because traces of the ore will be on the host rock. I personally have run into a spiral tunnel in a gold mine because the guy digging it had only a wheel barrow to haul the rock out. I've been in and out of hundreds of tunnels and can attest to the above. This show has been bugging me for a long time and I too read theoriginal Reader's Digest story of Oak Island back in about  1965. Contact me if you want bobsnydersr07@gmail.com.