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Title: Hydraulic and elevating works in Slate Creek
Creator: Schubert, Gustave H
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1896]
Publication Information: [Nelson Point] : [Gustave H. Schubert]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2008-0901
PHOTO: MINES & MINING: GOLD: SIERRA COUNTY: SLATE CREEK
View of 10 miners working on the hydraulic and elevating works in Slate Creek near La Porte and the St. Louis Bridge in Sierra and Plumas Counties. Shows tunnel and flumes with pipes on the hillside above the creek, near the lower end of the last 2 1/4 miles of the Alturas Mine. Slate Creek Gravel Gold Mining Company, the Alturas Mine and English Company mentioned in hand written note on verso; view 2, Schubert photo no. 403.
Transferred from CSL's C.W. Hendel Manuscript Collection.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.
Identifier: (C)001389134CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-2446
Subject: Gold mining--California--Slate Creek
Hydraulic mining--California--Slate Creek
Slate Creek (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Place: California
Slate Creek
Slate Creek (Calif.)

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