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Photographer: James King
Taken: January 25, 2014
Caption: Tailings Wheel #3 Information Sign
Additional Description: This wheel was the first to collapse and it did so in 1963, seven years before wheel #2. You will notice that it is built perpendicular to wheels 1, 2 & 4. It is believed that this was due to the terrain. Like all the wheels, it was constructed at the Kennedy Mine, near the stamp mill, and then disassembled and reconstructed here.

Wheel #3 in the foreground of the photo is 800 feet from Wheel #2. Note the concrete piers which supported machinery and the flume structure.
Submitted: February 3, 2014, by James King of San Miguel, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p265761
File Size: 4.328 Megabytes

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