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Photographer: James King
Taken: January 25, 2014
Caption: Tailings Wheel #2 Information Sign
Additional Description: Wheels #1 and #2 are only 80 feet apart and were connected, as were all the wheels, with a simple gravity flume system that transported the watery tailings from wheel to wheel. The flume had a fall of 1/2" per foot which was enough to maintain a constant flow of 850 tons of tailings each day to the impound dam. Part of the flume structure can still be seen next to the fallen wheel. This wheel collapsed in 1970.

This photo was taken in 1950's. The sheet metal siding and the building framework was removed for the war effort in 1942.
Submitted: February 3, 2014, by James King of San Miguel, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p265711
File Size: 4.588 Megabytes

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