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Old Mining Towns and Old Bottles (PH 4-6)(1964) (37 pages)
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Cherokee, a small mining town, had a prosperous beginning. A school teacher, who had taught in the former Indian territory of Oklahoma, came from Maine to California
with a band of Cherokee Indians. They settled at the present location of Cherokee, where the Indians proceeded to
mine for gold. Word spread of the abundance of gold on the
Cherokee Flats, and soon white miners came to try their
luck. They found mining thirty dollar's worth of gold a day
an easy task. The miners had come to gain wealth but they
helped a town to grow as well.
Cherokee was the active center of hydraulic mining during the 1870's. This system of hydraulic mining consisted
of over 100 miles of pipes, ditches, and flumes, conveying
the water to the point of operation. It was built at a cost of
$750,000. Forty million gallons of water daily were required to "feed'' the 18 monitors with their 9-inch streams of
high-pressure water.
Nine miles of gold-saving sluices, with dimensions of
four to six feet in width and set in a triple line, were constructed to catch the gold particles. In addition, many pow-'
erful water-pressure derricks were built as a part of the installation.
Today, Cherokee has few inhabitants, and several of the
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