Old sluice from yesteryear

[Cariboo5]

Sluices sure have come a long ways......Thought I'd share this picture I have which reminds me of how lucky I have it today compared to the early 1900's...

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[goldenIrishman]

I couldn't agree more! That poor guy is not only having to move the materials, but the water as well! I'd say it's a fair bet that after a day of working that thing a person would be ready to drop. Well I guess you'd sure sleep well at night.

 

[goldenmojo]

and you would wake up everyday wearing the same crusty clothes that you were wearing every day before then......

 

[fowledup]

I would trade him my sluice, gold, and clothes, for his gold if I got to sell it at todays prices

 

[rodoconnor]

They sure worked for it. But remember the gold then was more plentiful and larger. We're working the leftovers [more or less].

 

[Hoser John]

That style of thang is the reason there is still gold today. Slow,laborious,bad recovery and great for the next mining generations-John

 

[goldenmojo]

 

[GoldpannerDave]

Sluices sure have come a long ways......Thought I'd share this picture I have which reminds me of how lucky I have it today compared to the early 1900's...

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I am looking for a picture I have somewhere of a hand-carved wooden sluice from the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It was centuries old as I recall. Quite remarkable in that it was all one piece. If I find the picture, I will post it.

 

[Reed Lukens]

Here in California we were a little more advanced then this guy by the 1900's. The 1884 Sawyer Decision had gone through but many of the Hydraulic mines were still operating. Including the You Bet and Red Dog mines that operated up until WWII.
The Sawyer Decision | Malakoff Diggins

They moved a little more material back in the late 1800's



The second one on the right is a picture of the undercurrent riffles at the North Bloomfield or Malakoff Diggins. These are all of Malakoff.

 

[BurntBear]

Great posts.