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[W. David Samuelsen]

The Chinese miners had a peculiar way of mining for gold.
They wash the rocks thoroughly to extract any loose grain of gold.

David

CARROLLOUC at aol.com wrote:
> 
> There was another method of looking for gold by piling the rocks from the bed
> of a stream. In Southern Oregon, Jackson Co. there were many Chinese miners.
> On one creek in particular, Forest Creek, the Chinese piled rocks from the
> bed of the stream onto the banks in order to locate gold. The very large
> piles are still there and can be seen from Hwy. 237 out of Jacksonville
> toward the communities of Ruch and Applegate.
> 
> Baker Co. also had many Chinese miners as listed in the 1880 census.
> 
> A very interesting period of time in Oregon History. My Grandfather, Guy
> Colin Scott Cooper roamed all over Eastern Oregon looking for gold as did his
> father, DeWitt and uncle, Theodore Henry (Harry) Cooper - 1880's to 1900.
> Apparently none of them ever "hit the jackpot".
> 
> Carroll (Cooper) Summers
> 
> <<
>  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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