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Hydraulic Giant
Photographer: Don Hann
Taken: August 7, 2017
Caption: Hydraulic Giant
Additional Description: Other historic mining equipment is on display in the park. This is a hydraulic giant used like a giant garden hose to blast away hillsides of gold bearing alluvial deposits. Using hydraulic giants was the most efficient way of mining free gold in alluvial deposits before the development of the dredge around 1900.
Submitted: August 12, 2017, by Don Hann of Canyon City, Oregon.
Database Locator Identification Number: p394004
File Size: 4.730 Megabytes

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