Placer Mining

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ID: 1592
Title: Placer Mining
Date: June 1917
Description: Same photo in "Historic Hahns Peak" by T. Stevenson pg. 22, caption reads: Sluice box and hydraulic at work in Poverty Bar Gold Placer….(Sluice troughs and hydraulic water was the combination used at Hahns Peak Poverty Bar Gold Placer and was the most successful of all Routt County's mining efforts.)
Creator: H. M. Booth
Contributor: Routt National Forest
Area: Hahns Peak
Business: Mining
Source: B & W Photo
Format: Scanner: Epson 1640 SU