A milk,beer, and a hutch. Little bit of a problem with the hutch.

[Mailman1960]

Got a tip on a new spot. Went threw the woods, Got down to the river, there's a hutch sitting right on top covered in algae. Was just going to scout it for the next day. As you can see, it went in,not coming yet. Plus it's a slick, just a H with 2 3s on the bottom. Haven't found the Milk bottle yet. Spring Valley Sanitary Milk Co. Wisconsin. Could use some help, if anyone knows about it.

 

[hemihampton]

thats a good sign.

 

[Mailman1960]

thats a good sign.

I'm hoping, was just able to get in the river. I'm getting a wet suit to try and extend the season.

 

[UnderMiner]

A hutch just sitting on the surface is one of my favorite things to see. Whenever I see a bottle that old just out there like that, it makes me able to connect to that period in history. I imagine the era of steam ships and what America looked like back then - when every other man was a civil war veteran and whose children would have grown up hearing the stories first hand - some even having seen it. I crouch down and pick up the Hutchinson bottle and realise I am the first person to do so in over 110 years. I realise that the last person to hold it did so before both world wars, before even the sinking of the Titanic, way way back when everyone still rode horses. Then I realize, that time wasn't really that long ago, because the rubber stopper is still intact and the metal still holds tension, it may as well have been dropped yesterday. Over 110 years on the ground, potentially much longer than that, and nobody touched it until this moment.