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Title	Pasture and stream with miner, detail view
File Name	GPNC.01.294,detail
Date of Original	1880-1910;
Description	A miner washes ore in a stream with a "cradling" apparatus. From "A History of Mining in Iowa County" by Stanley T. Holland: ". . . wash places [were] built along the creeks. A forked post was set in the ground close to a dammed up pool in a creek. Then a long pole was mounted in the crotch of the forked post, and a slotted box was then mounted on the end of the pole, next to the pool. Then the lead was shovelled into the slotted box and the pole was shifted backwards and forwards in the post crotch to get the right balance, according to the load in the box. Then a man on the end of the pole would jiggle the box up and down in the the pool and dissolve the dirt to wash the lead, as no dirt was supposed to be on the lead. . . . It was hard work, but the only way they had to clean lead and process it before smelting." The full view from which this image is taken is available in this collection under the title "Pasture and stream with miner, full view."
Community	Mineral Point; Linden;
County	Iowa County
State	Wisconsin;
LCTGM Subject	Mining; Mining equipment; Miners; Farms;
Subject	Mining Scenes;
Submitting Institution	Mineral Point Historical Society
Collection	Glass Plate Negative Collection
Copyright and Use Statement	Copyright to this resource is held by the Mineral Point Historical Society and is provided here for educational purposes only. Commercial use or distribution of the image or content is not permitted without prior permission of the Mineral Point Historical Society. Please contact the Mineral Point Historical Society at MPHS@mineralpointhistory.org for permission to use the digital image or content.
Type	Still Image
Format	Image/ jpeg
Date Digitized	2008
Date Digitized	2008-07-21

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