July 12, 2016 – Niles River Diving

"Grubbing" finds from the St. Joseph river off Riverview park in Niles, Michigan.
“Grubbing” finds from the St. Joseph river in front of  Riverview Park in Niles, Michigan.

July 12, 2016:  Grubbing is the “art” of locating items on the river bottom that might have value. Today’s  effort was geared to recovering bottles and items that just looked interesting.  The real work is cleaning your finds and figuring which ones to toss (or give) away.  Keepers are generally the stone ware jugs and pots,  highly embossed bottles, and those with interesting shapes.