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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 27, 2017
Caption: GOLD! panel
Additional Description: Captions: (top center) The gold was here, but getting at it was hard work. Miners spent long hours bending over gold pans, running water into sluice boxes, or trying other placer methods.; (middle left) By 1860, thirty privative cabins perched on upper Coyote Creek. Most occupants didn't stay long. They'd sell their claim, then move on to the next promising site.; (bottom center) In spite of an Oregon law profiting them from owning land - including gold claims - Chinese miners did very well during the first Coyote Creek mining boom of 1862 to 1867.
Submitted: March 1, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p417856
File Size: 3.526 Megabytes

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