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Collection: Directories and Documents > Pamphlets

Half an Hour in El Dorado (PH 1-12)(1940s-50s) (35 pages)

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mines such as the one shown in picture No. 16. Captured mountain streams, forced through these nozzles under tremendous pressure, ate away the gold-bearing gravel with ravenous appetites . . . washing down enough dirt and rocks to fill the Panama Canal. . . and leaving in their wake great, man-made valleys (No. 17). nO. 18 NO. 19 So much for gold that could be washed from gravel. At the spot in Grass Valley marked today by a monument of gold-bearing rock (No. 18) a certain George McKnight literally stumbled upon gold of another kind, when his boot accidentally kicked loose a piece of rich quartz ore.