Grip Collection 86-P-21-003

86-P-21-003
Camp buildings. "We haa two bunkhouses, housing 12 men each. We carried about 27 people in the camp there. We had a few tents ',' The clothes line , a 35 or 36 Ford pi ckup truck, and a drill rig are also shown. "The drillers would drill across the valley there at Mammoth Creek where the dredge was working or going to work so they would pretty well know what to expect to recover. And another fact, the three drillers--Johnny Lake, Harold Christensen (who became camp superintendent) and Harold Meyer, would pan drilled samples. They rotated their shifts over 24 hours to see what they could expect the dredge would recover from the amount of cubic yards of gravel that went through the dredge.