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Photographer: Merle Porter - Published by Royal Pictures - Colton,Ca
Caption: Tailing Wheels - Jackson, California
Additional Description: Description on Postcard: These huge wheels were used to carry tailings across a canyon to dump it over a nearby hill. They are located below the Argonaut and Kennedy Mines, whose deposit shaft is over a mile deep. Up to 1931 the Argonaut produced $17,391,409 in gold. From 1848 to 1851 Jackson was a stopping point for teamsters who piled a collection of bottles along the creek where the National Hotel stands today. The town was given the name of Bottlieas later changed to Jackson after Col. Jackson an energenic citizen. Jackson is the county seat of Amador County after moving it from Double Springs and a time when Mokelumne Hill was the county seat. Col. Jackson went south and founded the camp of Jacksonville covered by water at the present time....M.P.
Submitted: October 29, 2008, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p41565
File Size: 0.380 Megabytes

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