Hunting For Valuable Bottles In A 150-Year-Old Dump

Thanks for watching another step of my journey up here! Let me know what you'd like to see more of in the comments.

anyone just find this series randomly and is hooked ? absolutely loving it

Some guy 100 years ago: *throws away bottle Some guy 100 years later: finds bottle “Yesss!! Yesssss!!!”

The bottles, although fairly common, are extremely old! Most are 1870s era- the crockery jar is especially fascinating! The three bottles at the end you had trouble identifying are as follows: The small aqua rectangular bottle is definitely medicinal, and was most likely a patent medicine with a paper label. The larger rectangular bottle is also is spice bottle, like the smaller variants. Probably Folger and Co from San Francisco, considering you’re in California. And lastly, the round aqua bottle most likely held cherries or olives, and originally had a wax seal. Many similar types of bottles from this era have been recovered from steamer ships that wrecked on the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

What do you call a man who lives alone in an abandoned mining town? An unaccompanied miner

you should take the broken ceramic and bottle pieces and make a mosaic backdrop for the bar

I was just waiting for those kittens to knock over those priceless bottles 😂

Your SOUL is that of a historian navigating a quest. You were born for this.

I'm a zooarchaeologist so seeing you find all those bones makes me so excited! I wish I could examine them for you, I'd happily do it if I didn't live in Sweden haha! Looks to be mostly cattle from what I can see in the video. It'd be interesting to look for butchery marks and patterns to establish whether live cattle was kept there or meat was bought pre-cut from outside the community. Exciting!

New cat owner: Let me put the precious glass bottles on top of the kitties scratching post. I'm sure they'll be fine up there. XD

I wouldn't leave those bottles up there with all those cats around.

“Smells Like History “ should go on a T-shirt for you to sell in the future gift shop.

After you clean up the pottery and china fragments, you could create a mosaic table top or backsplash in a bathroom/kitchen. These little historical fragments would be repurposed and could be seen by anyone who visits.

"I wanted to be delicate...' So I took a sledgehammer to it "

You should explore parts of the land with a metal detector! Maybe you’ll find little valuable thing people lost (rings old pennies, jewelry) not necessarily in the mines but around the different buildings and paths people walked on to get to different places in the town! Also an other supply run video could be cool! Maybe filmed in vlog style and we see what’s inside the stores where you get your supplies, the people you know and talk with “down there” . You could also do a video message to your future self so in 5 years you can see all the progress that has been made and see if you accomplished everything you had said in the video.

What a great discovery! We're treasure hunters here in the UK and understand the connection you feel with the history of the place. It's wonderful that someone like you, who cares about the history of the place, bought it. Great stuff! xx

I respect this man. He’s not out here looking for things to make money off of, he just wants to keep the place alive.

I don’t honestly think this place could of ended up in better hands

Poker tournaments at the rebuild American Hotel would be so sick! Full immersion, old saloon music, cigars and a dress code! haha

Brent , I've been digging bottles for over 40 years , and believe it or not , the best place to dig (for whiskey's) is in the old outhouses , "privvy digging" . Imagine going out on a freezing winter night & taking along a bottle to keep you warm while you take care of business. Some of my best finds have come from this source .