St. George Hotel in Volcano, and hydraullic mining in Yuba County (?), 1936 (copy neg.)

Title: St. George Hotel in Volcano, and hydraullic mining in Yuba County (?), 1936 (copy neg.)
Date Created: 1936
Date: 1936
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Bottom: Hydraulic mining Yuba county? Work, which washed away eight times as much soil as was excavatted in building Panama Canal, not permitted only behind Retention dams, which prevent silt andn other detruits from clogging streams. Reservoirs delivered water to nozzles at pressure of 350 pounds.
Top: Old St. George Hotel, Volcano, once pride of Mother Lode.
Volcano and Yuba County were areas of mining activity during the California Gold Rush.
These are older photographs, copied in 1936. Copyright, Louis J. Stellman, 535 Sacramento Street, San Francisco.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 4777 Mother Lode Country [stamped:] Apr. 14 1936

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Location: California
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Hotels--California--Volcano
Hydraulic mining--California
Mother Lode (Calif.)

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_13979
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j7gkd
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Rights Country: US
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