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Ione Dredging Cabinet Card

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Ione Dredging Cabinet Card
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This item SOLD at 2015 Apr 20 @ 11:35UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Interesting photo of dredging. The photo is damaged in upper right corner and has some staining. During the days of the Gold Rush, the miners knew the town by the names of "Bedbug" and "Freezeout." Unlike other communities in Amador County, which were founded on gold mining, Ione was a supply center, stage and rail stop, and agricultural hub. The dredging idea was originally simple, an endless chain of buckets bringing up mud and gravel from the river bottom and depositing it in sluice boxes aboard a boat. The fine material was separated from the coarse material by screens and the free gold caught by the use of quicksilver. Both the propelling and dredging machinery would be operated by steam. This simple idea began early in 1850s but did not reach a practical implementation till as late as 1897, when the single lift bucket elevation type system was floated in California on the Yuba River. Throughout the history of dredging in California the Oroville district has floated more dredges and seen more dredging companies than any other areas in California. By 1909, gold dredging had become big business and although there were a number of small one-dredge operators, the bulk of the land was now controlled mainly by three large companies.

City: Ione
State: California,
Date: c. 1886

FHWAC#: 25521