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Chili (Chilean) Wheels
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: May 30, 2012
Caption: Chili (Chilean) Wheels
Additional Description: Before the development of more sophisticated machinery, miners used wheels like these to crush gold-bearing quartz. The idea for Chili wheels was brought to the California gold fields by Chilean miners. These wheels were thought to originally be nine feet in diameter. They wore down rapidly with heavy use.
Submitted: June 16, 2012, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p208145
File Size: 3.052 Megabytes

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