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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 25, 2019
Caption: Gold Pans and Whipsaws Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (upper left) Downtown Florence boasted a dance hall, livery barn, restaurant, barber shop, Cherokee Bob's Saloon, McKenzie's General Store and Merthey's Butcher Shop.; (center) Placer mining hadn't change much fro the Florence glory days when Jim Weddle prospected in the 1930s. On his mule, Jim loaded his "grub," shovel, and gold pan.; (bottom center) Hydraulic mining employed water, channeled downhill under very high pressure and discharged through a nozzle. The effect on the landscape was dramatic. Newer, less expensive equipment such as the small bucket dredge replaced hydraulic mining and made possible more profitable working of placer deposits.; (upper right) View of Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
Submitted: October 18, 2019, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p498440
File Size: 3.236 Megabytes

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