Great place for gold prospecting here. Unfortunately, no dredging allowed in California at all anymore, but it’s a wonderful gold rich area to find some pickers! Billy Holcomb (hence name of Holcomb Valley) was a hunter/tracker who was tracking a bear that he had wounded in the late 1800’s. Billy took it upon himself to feed miners who were out starving on the prospecting sites, and founded the Billy Holcomb 1069 Chapter of E Clampus Vitus (ECV). Whilst tracking this bear that he wounded he came across the mother load of the now Holcomb Valley back in 1886. The 1069 chapter of ECV is still together to this day and is responsible for pouring plaques to commemorate certain historical persons or places. ECV is a fraternal organization of brotherhood “sisters” who focus on the preservation of Western History and it is a male adult fraternal organization who only accepts new members via a sponsorship program and a pledging of sorts for initiation weekends. It is the duty of the brethren to look after the “Orphans and Widders” of the fallen, to ensure his family suffer in the least painful way. Don’t be surprised if you see those “Red Shirt” men all over the Holcomb Valley, from the baby age of 21 to the age of the gold dust itself with some of the “Graybeards”. Whilst we may look rough around the edges, be assured the by the “credo quia absurdem” a Clamper would be more concerned with where to find the next cold beer over give care to mess with you strangers. Quiet down now, yall fellers gathered ‘round the fire…there be the sound of the Hewgag blow’n!

“What say the brethren?”
“-SATISFACTORY!”

-Jonny Jr. - Redtones - ECV 1069
November 28th, 2022