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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 27, 2017
Caption: The Ruble Vision panel
Additional Description: Captions: (bottom left) William Ruble, Sr. brought business savvy, inventive sons, and a deep sense of community to Coyote Creek. As the family struggled to make a profit, they also began building a town.: (bottom center) Miners used the "giants" to push holders, rocks and gravel into the elevator, then looked for gold in the finer materials that came out through the side sluice box. The brothers patented their elevator in 1900. The Ruble Rock Elevator won a gold medal in the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905 and was used all over the western United States in the early years of the 20th century.; (bottom right) As Bill Ruble demonstrates in this advertising photo, larger boulders could go through the elevator without getting jammed.; (top right) Hydraulic miners dug ditches and used pipes to bring creek water to the "giants" - huge nozzles that forced the water at high pressure - to wash rocks and soil through big sluices.
Submitted: March 1, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p417857
File Size: 3.449 Megabytes

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