[or-roots] Susanville

[W. David Samuelsen]

pressure water hosing. There is a photo of this. The miners hosed
to wash out dirt in order to get to gold without dry mining.


according to this rare book I have:
Susanville was one of the most popular of all gold strikes in the
eastern part of the state. In 1865 gold was found there and thousands
of people flocked to its hills. Susanville precinct had 52 
inhabitants in 1890, 276 in 1900, 280 in 1910, 103 in 1920, 87 in
1930. I think Susanville went bust around 1933 when gold prices
were frozen at 35 dollars per troy ounce.

David

Verdena Veelle wrote:
> 
> Anybody have any information about the ghost town of Susanville?  What was
> the method used to pile all of the rocks out of the creek-there are an awful
> lot of them.  What years were people living there?  We recently visited the
> area when we were over at John Day to see relatives.
> Thanks for any information.
> Verdena Veelle
> vveelle at molalla.net
> 
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