GEM MINING--
In another romp around Ohio


Lady friend Sue Brooks pans for "gem" stones by sifting her purchased bag of sand in the mill race at the Olentangy Indian Caverns south of Delaware.  Her $3.50 bag of sand had been salted with a surprisingly generous collection of colorful minerals (below).

It didn't matter the street value of her gems likely was a buck or so.  She had $5.00 worth of pleasure on what was an enjoyable day for both of us.

She did her prospecting stint while we waited for our tour of the caverns to form.  The prospecting and the spelunking both followed several interesting hours of trying to find the exact center of Ohio which many folks believe to be in, well, Centerburg.

We found strong evidence and some of the anecdotal kind to support three or four locations of that geographic point all within about five miles of the junction of Delaware, Morrow and Knox counties.  Please stop by Saturday and we'll tell you about the caverns.  With luck, the story of finding the center of our state will follow the next week.