Hydraulic mining. Sterling mine. Two nozzles (monitors) gush water from left and right sides of photo, men work nozzles; ravine wall in background; rubble and covered wooden flume in foreground. On back of photo: 'Hydraulic Mining near the ghost town of Sterling…Taken
about 1903.' Not the Federal Mine, which began circa 1926.
Year or Date Range
c. 1903
Location
G35 D 4
Scan Location
Mining\SOHS 20761 Hydraulic Mining.tif