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Dredge in Manhattan, Nevada being assembled: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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\From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada)
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Dredge in Manhattan, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). On the right-hand side of the picture can be seen the pond on which the dredge floated.
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Dredge in Manhattan, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). The hopper on the starboard side of the dredge is visible. The dredge processed the gravel through jigs as opposed to sluices. With the volume of material the dredge handled, a sluice would have been impractical. A jig has a diaphragm driven by an electric motor which pulsates. The Yuba jigs were about 42 inches long by 42 inches across. A bed in the jig was filled with steel shot. As the gravel material floated across the steel shot, the jig's pulsating diaphragm raised the steel shot-bed up and gold, being so much heavier than the gravel and the steel shot, would work its way down through the shot-bed. The jig bed usually has a 1/8-inch mesh stainless steel screen so that any gold finer than 1/8 inch will pass through the screen. The jig pulsated between 60 and 100 times a minute, a "steady throb." Gold coarser than 1/8 inch, being very heavy, would be held on top the screen beneath the bed of steel shot.
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Bob Wilson repairing a bulldozer, Smoky Valley, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada)
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Bob Wilson's Swedish grandfather: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). Robert "Bob" Wilson’s Swedish grandfather immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. He worked for a while in Colorado as a steam engineer, and eventually ended up in Spokane, Washington, where he married and raised a family. Bob Wilson’s father, Gustavus Edward Wilson, was the oldest son of the gentleman pictured here. Bob Wilson’s grandfather was one of several investors who purchased a mine and mill in Goldfield, Nevada, in 1906, only to find that another company had previously come in and taken out the gold.
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Alice and "Bob" Wilson, probably in Smoky Valley, Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada)
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1912 Model-T Ford that once belonged to Julius Gainer, who owned and operated the South Twin Mine in Nevada: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada).Gainer constructed a mill and ran 3,000 feet of mine tunnel on the property. He employed four men. Gainer modified the Model-T pickup shown here to haul ore down the South Twin Canyon. Al Bradshaw, a Tonopah resident, remembered riding up and down the canyon as a 10-year old child with Julius Gainer on the Model-T.
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Bob Wilson's grandfather and grandmother, George Hiram Gates and Annie Gates: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). George Hiram Gates and his wife, Annie came from North Dakota and settled in Los Molinas, California.
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Bob Wilson, Rockford, Washington: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada). Robert “Bob” Wilson, born November 11, 1914.
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Alice Pratt Cirac Wilson, wife of "Bob" Wilson, in Tuolumne, California: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series VII. Other areas in Nye County -- Subseries VII.I. Wilson Family (Toiyabe Mountains, Nevada)
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