Roscoe St. Clair is a laborer at Vinton Scrap Metal Co. His tutor, Howard Christy is retired from professional work with the Boy Scouts of America.

I like to hunt for gold. I like to find gold in the rivers and streams of bedrock. I want to get a dredge so I can go to the streams to dredge for gold. I will get a high banker.

I get the Gold Prospector magazine in the mail. I have a Gold Prospector Guide to show me where to go to look for gold.

Gold is fun to find. It is not just finding the gold, but it's seeing it for the first time. Without a gold pan you cannot find gold at all. The gold pan is the most important tool in anything you do in looking for gold. You use a dredge to get at the gold, but you must have a gold pan to sort out the gold. The area of the bedrock is a good place to look for gold without a dredge or without a high banker.

There is gold in all the states in the U.S.A. There is gold in the state of Virginia. Gold was discovered in Virginia in the 1830s and in Georgia and North Carolina in 1846. There was gold found in Sutters Mill in California in 1849. Then everyone went to Sutters Mill to get gold. There was another gold rush in Nome, Alaska. Then everyone went to Nome to find gold.

There is a place I would like to go to look for gold. It is in California. If you get to the right place, you can find quality gold.

You can find gold with a metal detector. I have found gold in Virginia in the rivers and creeks in Buckingham County. I have found gold in Georgia. I haven't looked in the state of North Carolina yet for gold.

I would like to go back to Alaska and look for gold. I went there to a gold prospectors' camp a couple of years ago. I would like to look for gold in California. It would be good to look at the countryside and take pictures.