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Re: Mining related landscape features
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Don Rotell <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:32:07 -0700
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This mining district is located in the Blue Mountains of northeastern
Oregon.  Gold mining began in the John Day River country in 1862.  Chinese
miners worked the area after the initial placer mining waned.  I also think
a bucketline dredge may have operated in the area.

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