There's GOLD in them thar hills!

In 1906 Gold was discovered on the Ruby Creek north of Galena on the Yukon River. By 1910, a gold rush to Ruby had about 3,000 people move to the town and about 5000 people around the area. In January 1912 the town was officially founded and named Ruby after some miners discovered "Rubies" in the area. These Rubies were later discovered to be Garnets and not Rubies but the town name remained. Since then the town has closed all the mines and there are only a few hundred people that still live in Ruby but you can still find some gold in the rivers and rocks in the area.

Here is a picture of Ruby in 1917
~ (I borrowed these pictures from an archive so you could see it)

Here is Ruby now
(Again I did not take these pictures I borrowed them)

For Kaden's birthday he got some cool sand toys from some of his friends and he really wanted to go play with them before the snow covered all the sand. Keith also wanted to let Daisy go run for a bit before the snow piled up. Keith asked Jeremy if he wanted to go pan for some gold before the river froze up and see if they could find some. So while I stayed home with Isaiah and cooked dinner , the big boys headed off to the "beach". Beach being a relative term. During the summer it actually is a nice place to go look for nice pretty rocks like agates and other neat stones. Well they were off and Kaden was so excited to use his new rock pan to look for some gold. Here are some pictures of their adventure in Gold panning.

Jeremy and Kaden panning for gold

Showing how it is done

FOUND SOME!!!! Yeah there is a ity-bity speck

This picture we had to put in just because! This is Jeremy's attempt to get Daisy to walk across the ice. Yes he is laying on the ice.... and Daisy stood back looking at him like he was CRAZY! She is a smart dog! =)