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Caribou Mountain Marker
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 21, 2017
Caption: Caribou Mountain Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (center left) Gold mining buildings on Carriboo Mountain; (bottom left) The Greenhouse Hotel at Carriboo City; (map, bottom center) Caribou Mountain is located about 50 miles northeast of Soda Springs near the Wyoming/Idaho border.; (bottom right) Nineteenth century hydraulic mining used high-pressure jets of water to dislodge material and send the water-sediment slurry though sluice boxes to remove the gold.
Submitted: July 27, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p391792
File Size: 3.578 Megabytes

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