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Shasta. Each Theory Behind It Tells a Different Story","publishDate":1535758252,"format":"image","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]lijah Sullivan has spent the last six years trying to solve a mystery. About 10 years ago, a hole — about 60 feet deep — appeared on the side of Mount Shasta, California’s highest volcano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed to have been dug by hand at night, using a makeshift pulley system to remove the dirt. The only clues the diggers left behind were a ladder, some buckets and a plastic water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan grew up in Mount Shasta, a former logging town that lies at the base of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people know me as the guy from the video store,\" says Sullivan, who works at an independent movie store in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s even better known for his quest to solve the mystery of the giant hole for a documentary film he’s making called\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/TheHoleStoryMovie/\"> \"The Hole Story\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685046 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elijah Sullivan stands on the spot where, about 10 years ago, Forest Service agents discovered a mysterious 60-foot-deep hole that seemed to have been dug completely by hand. The hole has since been filled in, but traces of the dig remain, including a plastic 5-gallon bucket and scratch marks on the trees that held a pulley system the diggers used to remove the dirt. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sullivan says he’s been tracking three main theories about what someone was looking for at the bottom of the hole, and each theory tells a different story about the region’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the different competing theories mirrored everybody's different beliefs around here,” Sullivan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, belief in the legend of Lemuria.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Lost Continent of Lemuria\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some people in Mount Shasta believe that a lost continent called Lemuria is hidden beneath the mountain, along with its capital crystalline city, Telos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name Lemuria originated with a 19th century English zoologist who believed that lemurs had used the lost continent as a land bridge to migrate from India to Madagascar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some people think Lemuria exists only in the mind, others say they’ve seen tall robed Lemurians shopping in town, or traveling in and out of the mountain in cloud-shaped UFOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11685051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Mount Shasta’s visitor center, books on the mountain’s myths and legends seem to outnumber guides to the mountain’s other attractions, like hiking and backpacking. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So, when Sullivan heard about the giant hole, his first thought was that the diggers were trying to get to the underground world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You'll hear a lot of people talking about Lemuria, maybe even asking for directions,” says Sullivan. “People make pilgrimages here — it's like a New Age mecca.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685047 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shop window on Mount Shasta’s main boulevard displays a book on Lemurian portals. Some people believe that the lost continent of Lemuria is hidden beneath Mount Shasta, along with its capital city, Telos. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1987, an event called the Harmonic Convergence marked Mount Shasta as a destination for New Age spirituality. It was a huge production — one news report from the time called the gathering a \"spiritual Woodstock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mount Shasta has a spiritual reputation that long predates the New Age movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Sacred Mountain for Native Americans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The mountain is sacred to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.winnememwintu.us/\">Winnemem Wintu\u003c/a> tribe, which is indigenous to the McCloud River area of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard about the hole,” says the tribe’s leader, Caleen Sisk, who worries that spiritual and recreational visitors are harming Mount Shasta. “We came out of that mountain, so we're obligated to be the watchers of the mountain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Sullivan’s second theory -- about why someone dug a giant hole on Mount Shasta -- is that they were looking for Native American artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a pretty long history of Native American artifact-looting here,” says Sullivan. “It makes sense because so many tribes have been here over so many centuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11685052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Shasta is California’s highest volcano, and it towers above the surrounding landscape. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Digging for artifacts like arrowheads or human remains without a permit is a serious crime. First-time offenders can be fined up to $20,000, and imprisoned for up to a year. The penalty is five times worse for second-time offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, there was a big looting investigation just across the border in Oregon’s Klamath County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I called two Oregon state police officers who have worked on looting cases,” says Sullivan. “They said, ‘Oh yeah, that looks like looters.’ ” Sullivan said the officers told him that looters often work at night and remove the dirt from the dig site for processing, which is what the diggers did on Mount Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Forest Service disagrees with Sullivan’s sources. They said there aren’t many Native American artifacts on the mountain because it’s a sacred site, so tools and ceremonial items would have been packed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service has its own theory about what the diggers were looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Does it Just Come Down to Gold?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Somebody was doing some mining,” says Carolyn Napper, the district ranger for the Shasta McCloud management unit of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. She says the diggers were looking for gold, and that someone was eventually prosecuted for digging the hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11685048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign advertises gold panning in Yreka, a city north of Mount Shasta. The Forest Service says that the diggers were looking for gold on the mountain, even though the volcanic geology of the area makes it unlikely that they found any. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be totally unprecedented; there is a history of Gold Rush-era mining in the area. But Napper says it isn’t likely that there’s any gold where the hole was, due to the volcanic geology of that part of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's somewhat far-fetched that it would be a mining claim in this area, but probably stranger things have happened,” says Napper. “It's the beauty of Mount Shasta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter what the diggers were looking for — an underground world, Native American artifacts, or gold — Sullivan isn’t ready to let go of the mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There [are] always going to be questions — are any of these people telling the truth?” says Sullivan, who sees the hole as a kind of Rorschach test for people in Mount Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a perfect blank slate for people to project,” he says. “Every conceivable thing that a person would look for is at the bottom of that hole, to somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan is still working on his documentary film about the hole, but he likes the idea of it ending mysteriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know if any one answer could live up to the whole mystery of it,” says Sullivan. “Answers are disappointing, aren't they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ten years ago, a 60-foot hole appeared on the side of Mount Shasta. A local began a quest to solve the mystery, and says each of the three main theories tells a different story about the region’s history.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1536607785,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1215},"headData":{"title":"A Mysterious Hole Appeared on Mt. Shasta. Each Theory Behind It Tells a Different Story | KQED","description":"Ten years ago, a 60-foot hole appeared on the side of Mount Shasta. A local began a quest to solve the mystery, and says each of the three main theories tells a different story about the region’s history.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11684091 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11684091","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/08/31/the-whole-story-faith-and-fraud-in-mt-shasta/","disqusTitle":"A Mysterious Hole Appeared on Mt. Shasta. Each Theory Behind It Tells a Different Story","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/08/MtShastaHoleLegends.mp3","nprByline":"Cat Schuknecht","audioTrackLength":652,"path":"/news/11684091/the-whole-story-faith-and-fraud-in-mt-shasta","audioDuration":669000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">E\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>lijah Sullivan has spent the last six years trying to solve a mystery. About 10 years ago, a hole — about 60 feet deep — appeared on the side of Mount Shasta, California’s highest volcano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seemed to have been dug by hand at night, using a makeshift pulley system to remove the dirt. The only clues the diggers left behind were a ladder, some buckets and a plastic water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan grew up in Mount Shasta, a former logging town that lies at the base of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most people know me as the guy from the video store,\" says Sullivan, who works at an independent movie store in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he’s even better known for his quest to solve the mystery of the giant hole for a documentary film he’s making called\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/TheHoleStoryMovie/\"> \"The Hole Story\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685046 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS31963_Elijah2-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elijah Sullivan stands on the spot where, about 10 years ago, Forest Service agents discovered a mysterious 60-foot-deep hole that seemed to have been dug completely by hand. The hole has since been filled in, but traces of the dig remain, including a plastic 5-gallon bucket and scratch marks on the trees that held a pulley system the diggers used to remove the dirt. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sullivan says he’s been tracking three main theories about what someone was looking for at the bottom of the hole, and each theory tells a different story about the region’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the different competing theories mirrored everybody's different beliefs around here,” Sullivan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, belief in the legend of Lemuria.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Lost Continent of Lemuria\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Some people in Mount Shasta believe that a lost continent called Lemuria is hidden beneath the mountain, along with its capital crystalline city, Telos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name Lemuria originated with a 19th century English zoologist who believed that lemurs had used the lost continent as a land bridge to migrate from India to Madagascar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some people think Lemuria exists only in the mind, others say they’ve seen tall robed Lemurians shopping in town, or traveling in and out of the mountain in cloud-shaped UFOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685051\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11685051\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32207_VisitorCenter2-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Mount Shasta’s visitor center, books on the mountain’s myths and legends seem to outnumber guides to the mountain’s other attractions, like hiking and backpacking. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So, when Sullivan heard about the giant hole, his first thought was that the diggers were trying to get to the underground world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You'll hear a lot of people talking about Lemuria, maybe even asking for directions,” says Sullivan. “People make pilgrimages here — it's like a New Age mecca.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11685047 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32211_LemuriaBook1-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A shop window on Mount Shasta’s main boulevard displays a book on Lemurian portals. Some people believe that the lost continent of Lemuria is hidden beneath Mount Shasta, along with its capital city, Telos. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1987, an event called the Harmonic Convergence marked Mount Shasta as a destination for New Age spirituality. It was a huge production — one news report from the time called the gathering a \"spiritual Woodstock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mount Shasta has a spiritual reputation that long predates the New Age movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Sacred Mountain for Native Americans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The mountain is sacred to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.winnememwintu.us/\">Winnemem Wintu\u003c/a> tribe, which is indigenous to the McCloud River area of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard about the hole,” says the tribe’s leader, Caleen Sisk, who worries that spiritual and recreational visitors are harming Mount Shasta. “We came out of that mountain, so we're obligated to be the watchers of the mountain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Sullivan’s second theory -- about why someone dug a giant hole on Mount Shasta -- is that they were looking for Native American artifacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's a pretty long history of Native American artifact-looting here,” says Sullivan. “It makes sense because so many tribes have been here over so many centuries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11685052\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32206_MtShasta4-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mount Shasta is California’s highest volcano, and it towers above the surrounding landscape. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Digging for artifacts like arrowheads or human remains without a permit is a serious crime. First-time offenders can be fined up to $20,000, and imprisoned for up to a year. The penalty is five times worse for second-time offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, there was a big looting investigation just across the border in Oregon’s Klamath County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I called two Oregon state police officers who have worked on looting cases,” says Sullivan. “They said, ‘Oh yeah, that looks like looters.’ ” Sullivan said the officers told him that looters often work at night and remove the dirt from the dig site for processing, which is what the diggers did on Mount Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Forest Service disagrees with Sullivan’s sources. They said there aren’t many Native American artifacts on the mountain because it’s a sacred site, so tools and ceremonial items would have been packed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Forest Service has its own theory about what the diggers were looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Does it Just Come Down to Gold?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Somebody was doing some mining,” says Carolyn Napper, the district ranger for the Shasta McCloud management unit of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. She says the diggers were looking for gold, and that someone was eventually prosecuted for digging the hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11685048\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11685048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/RS32209_GoldSign3-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign advertises gold panning in Yreka, a city north of Mount Shasta. The Forest Service says that the diggers were looking for gold on the mountain, even though the volcanic geology of the area makes it unlikely that they found any. \u003ccite>(Cat Schuknecht/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It wouldn’t be totally unprecedented; there is a history of Gold Rush-era mining in the area. But Napper says it isn’t likely that there’s any gold where the hole was, due to the volcanic geology of that part of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's somewhat far-fetched that it would be a mining claim in this area, but probably stranger things have happened,” says Napper. “It's the beauty of Mount Shasta.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter what the diggers were looking for — an underground world, Native American artifacts, or gold — Sullivan isn’t ready to let go of the mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There [are] always going to be questions — are any of these people telling the truth?” says Sullivan, who sees the hole as a kind of Rorschach test for people in Mount Shasta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a perfect blank slate for people to project,” he says. “Every conceivable thing that a person would look for is at the bottom of that hole, to somebody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan is still working on his documentary film about the hole, but he likes the idea of it ending mysteriously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know if any one answer could live up to the whole mystery of it,” says Sullivan. “Answers are disappointing, aren't they?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-california-report-magazine/id1314750545?mt=2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to this and more in-depth storytelling by subscribing to The California Report Magazine podcast.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11684091/the-whole-story-faith-and-fraud-in-mt-shasta","authors":["byline_news_11684091"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_22586","news_1368","news_22733","news_1262","news_22895","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11685045","label":"news_72"},"news_11663127":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11663127","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11663127","score":null,"sort":[1524405630000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"happy-camp-wasnt-always-such-a-happy-town","title":"Happy Camp Wasn't Always Such a 'Happy' Town","publishDate":1524405630,"format":"audio","headTitle":"A Place Called What?! | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>A lot of us Californians like to hit the open road, explore miles of highway and venture off onto some back roads. Sometimes, we come across towns with some pretty bizarre and surprising names. For this installment in our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/a-place-called-what/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Place Called What?!\u003c/a>” we head to Happy Camp in Siskiyou County. Know an unusual place name in California? Tell us about it in the comments below, or send a note to calreport@kqed.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia East says Happy Camp wasn't always so happy. In fact, in the early 1850s, the town was known as Murderer's Bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East, who lives about two hours away from Happy Camp, says there were gold miners in the area who mined through very harsh winters. Then, newcomers came and, according to East, \"they didn't know what the winters were going to be like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut.jpg 805w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Happy Camp from 1941 (during the height of the State of Jefferson Movement). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Jarvie Eastman Collection, UC Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tension and conflict between the resident gold miners and the newcomers quickly grew. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Supplies were fought over,\" East says, \"as well as perhaps the gold digging areas. There must have been some death.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how this wild, wild west town got to be named Murderer's Bar. But only a few years later, East says, things at Murderer's Bar began to change for the better. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People were very happy they didn't get murdered,\" East says. \"Local stories also say that it was called Happy Camp because someone said it was a very happy place to be because they found gold.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11663171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birds Eye View of Happy Camp, 2014. \u003ccite>(Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Claudia East)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, East says, Happy Camp is very a small town with about 1,200 residents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not for people who are looking for great luxury,\" East says, \"but people who live there don't want to leave.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tension between gold miners and newcomers in this small town make for an unhappy history.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1524413491,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":324},"headData":{"title":"Happy Camp Wasn't Always Such a 'Happy' Town | KQED","description":"Tension between gold miners and newcomers in this small town make for an unhappy history.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11663127 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11663127","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/22/happy-camp-wasnt-always-such-a-happy-town/","disqusTitle":"Happy Camp Wasn't Always Such a 'Happy' Town","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/04/PlaceCalledHappyCamp.mp3","path":"/news/11663127/happy-camp-wasnt-always-such-a-happy-town","audioDuration":184000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>A lot of us Californians like to hit the open road, explore miles of highway and venture off onto some back roads. Sometimes, we come across towns with some pretty bizarre and surprising names. For this installment in our series “\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/a-place-called-what/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Place Called What?!\u003c/a>” we head to Happy Camp in Siskiyou County. Know an unusual place name in California? Tell us about it in the comments below, or send a note to calreport@kqed.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claudia East says Happy Camp wasn't always so happy. In fact, in the early 1850s, the town was known as Murderer's Bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East, who lives about two hours away from Happy Camp, says there were gold miners in the area who mined through very harsh winters. Then, newcomers came and, according to East, \"they didn't know what the winters were going to be like.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11663169\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut.jpg 805w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG1_RS30243_01-Happy-Camp-1941-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A photo of Happy Camp from 1941 (during the height of the State of Jefferson Movement). \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Jarvie Eastman Collection, UC Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tension and conflict between the resident gold miners and the newcomers quickly grew. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Supplies were fought over,\" East says, \"as well as perhaps the gold digging areas. There must have been some death.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's how this wild, wild west town got to be named Murderer's Bar. But only a few years later, East says, things at Murderer's Bar began to change for the better. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People were very happy they didn't get murdered,\" East says. \"Local stories also say that it was called Happy Camp because someone said it was a very happy place to be because they found gold.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663171\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11663171\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/IMG2_RS30239_06-Happy-Camp-circa-2014-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Birds Eye View of Happy Camp, 2014. \u003ccite>(Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Claudia East)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, East says, Happy Camp is very a small town with about 1,200 residents. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is not for people who are looking for great luxury,\" East says, \"but people who live there don't want to leave.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11663127/happy-camp-wasnt-always-such-a-happy-town","authors":["11365"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21844"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_21894","news_1368","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11663147","label":"news_72"},"news_11659581":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11659581","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11659581","score":null,"sort":[1523135286000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-besotted-mining-town-is-laid-to-rest-underwater","title":"A Besotted Mining Town is Laid to Rest...Underwater","publishDate":1523135286,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>A lot of us Californians like to hit the open road, explore miles of highway and venture off onto some back roads. Sometimes, we come across towns with some pretty bizarre and surprising names. For this installment in our series “A Place Called What?!” we head to Whiskeytown, in Shasta County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Know a California spot with an unusual name? Send a note to: calreport@kqed.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small mining settlement of Whiskeytown got its name from an incident involving a mule and, unsurprisingly, some booze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no road there yet or anything,\" says Jay Thompson. Thompson grew up near Whiskeytown, in the small city of Shasta. Now he works at the \u003ca href=\"https://shastahistorical.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shasta Historical Society\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says that during the Gold Rush, all supplies were brought in by mules. One fateful day, a pack mule was carrying a barrel of whiskey to town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whiskeytown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They were crossing a creek, and it fell off and broke open,\" he explains. \"They named the creek Whiskey Creek, and then from there they just went ahead and called the [town] Whiskeytown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is virtually non-existent now. All you can see above ground are remnants of mines in the hillsides. But below ground, it's a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's under a lake, a beautiful lake called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/whis/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whiskeytown Lake\u003c/a>,\" says Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What remained of the old town - a defunct hotel, a couple of other crumbling brick buildings - became flooded with water when the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskeytown_Dam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whiskeytown Dam\u003c/a> was built in 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says, if you go snorkeling there, you're likely to see a few ruins underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RXS-d6m2L8\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"There's not much left of Whiskeytown left above ground. Underwater, though, it's a different story.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1523138463,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":279},"headData":{"title":"A Besotted Mining Town is Laid to Rest...Underwater | KQED","description":"There's not much left of Whiskeytown left above ground. Underwater, though, it's a different story.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11659581 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11659581","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/07/a-besotted-mining-town-is-laid-to-rest-underwater/","disqusTitle":"A Besotted Mining Town is Laid to Rest...Underwater","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/04/PlaceCalledWhiskeytown.mp3","path":"/news/11659581/a-besotted-mining-town-is-laid-to-rest-underwater","audioDuration":146000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>A lot of us Californians like to hit the open road, explore miles of highway and venture off onto some back roads. Sometimes, we come across towns with some pretty bizarre and surprising names. For this installment in our series “A Place Called What?!” we head to Whiskeytown, in Shasta County.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Know a California spot with an unusual name? Send a note to: calreport@kqed.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The small mining settlement of Whiskeytown got its name from an incident involving a mule and, unsurprisingly, some booze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There was no road there yet or anything,\" says Jay Thompson. Thompson grew up near Whiskeytown, in the small city of Shasta. Now he works at the \u003ca href=\"https://shastahistorical.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shasta Historical Society\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says that during the Gold Rush, all supplies were brought in by mules. One fateful day, a pack mule was carrying a barrel of whiskey to town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30237_1989.15.10C-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whiskeytown. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Shasta Historical Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"They were crossing a creek, and it fell off and broke open,\" he explains. \"They named the creek Whiskey Creek, and then from there they just went ahead and called the [town] Whiskeytown.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The town is virtually non-existent now. All you can see above ground are remnants of mines in the hillsides. But below ground, it's a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's under a lake, a beautiful lake called \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/whis/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whiskeytown Lake\u003c/a>,\" says Thompson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What remained of the old town - a defunct hotel, a couple of other crumbling brick buildings - became flooded with water when the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskeytown_Dam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whiskeytown Dam\u003c/a> was built in 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson says, if you go snorkeling there, you're likely to see a few ruins underwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6RXS-d6m2L8'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6RXS-d6m2L8'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11659581/a-besotted-mining-town-is-laid-to-rest-underwater","authors":["11365"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_223","news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_1368","news_18607","news_22895"],"featImg":"news_11659603","label":"news_72"},"news_11659630":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11659630","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11659630","score":null,"sort":[1522797352000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"theres-still-gold-in-these-california-hills-but-mining-it-again-isnt-simple","title":"There’s (Still) Gold in These California Hills, But Mining It Again Isn't Simple","publishDate":1522797352,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>This year marks the 170th anniversary of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, north of Sacramento. The legacy of the Gold Rush is inescapable in Northern California, particularly in Mariposa County. It’s visible in mining museums, at roadside historical sites and in county buildings on Bullion Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What hasn’t persisted in this region is gold mining itself. But one Canadian company wants to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Long works on a few thousand acres in the Mariposa County foothills. He doesn’t have to go far to be reminded of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve recovered old wheelbarrows, old shovels and picks, steel lunchboxes, old ore carts,\" he says. \"There was even a bit of railway track where they used to push through carts of rock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 170 years, Long is here to reignite this historic industry. He’s the exploration manager for Fremont Gold Mining, a small company prospecting for gold on a hillside overlooking Lake McClure. Inside a warehouse, geologists examine rock samples, and outside, another cuts rock with a saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the goal is to have a mine and to create good jobs for people throughout the county, throughout the state,” Long says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Gold’s property lies along the famed Mother Lode Gold Belt, which stretches 120 miles from Mariposa north into El Dorado County. Since the 1840s, it’s been home to hundreds of gold mines that have extracted millions of ounces of the mineral. By some estimates, however, literally tons of gold still lie buried here. Fremont Gold hopes to make those potential resources a reality -- but history suggests it's likely to face an uphill battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Despite the name, Fremont Gold Mining is an exploration company, completing many years of surveying, sampling and drilling before deciding whether a mine could be economically feasible.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-960x665.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite the name, Fremont Gold Mining is an exploration company, completing many years of surveying, sampling and drilling before deciding whether a mine could be economically feasible. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To be clear, Fremont Gold Mining is not actually mining. It’s exploring. Its job is to determine how much gold its property contains, which involves surveying, sampling and drilling. After exploring a quarter of its property, the company estimates it has already defined close to 900,000 ounces of gold -- far more than what was already extracted during 100 years of mining on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If so much gold remains in the hills here, exploration companies must be stampeding back to the Mother Lode, right? Nope. Throughout the five counties containing the gold belt, only one gold mine is active, and only intermittently. Other exploration projects have folded, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Clinkenbeard with the California Geological Survey says that’s because the mineral itself is only one component of an economical operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gold production increases and decreases with the economy and with wars,” he says. “A whole lot of things influence what happened [since the Gold Rush].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[In the 19th century] you simply mined, and then when you were done you walked away, and you left the land with significant scars and in some cases ... public hazards.'\u003ccite>Pat Perez, California Department of Conservation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Although the price of gold has dropped from its peak in 2012, after inflation it’s still about 2.5 times higher than its value in the 1840s. But gold operations themselves have become much pricier since then, with more advanced technology and higher labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishal Gupta is CEO of California Gold Mining, the Canadian company that owns Fremont Gold. He says another reason gold mining slowed is because this is California, ground zero for environmentalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I won’t say there was a moratorium on any gold mining since the Second World War,” he says, “but it had become increasingly difficult for gold and other commodity-based companies to do any sort of a business within the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Perez, with the California Department of Conservation, says that’s for good reason. In the 19th century, long before the California Environmental Quality Act and the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, environmental accountability simply wasn’t a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You simply mined, and then when you were done you walked away, and you left the land with significant scars and in some cases environmental challenges and public hazards,” Perez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mariposa County resident Les Overstreet is concerned about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts a mine would have, and doesn't want the environmental negligence of the gold rush era.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariposa County resident Les Overstreet is concerned about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts a mine would have, and doesn't want the environmental negligence of the Gold Rush era. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariposa County officials, who handle local permitting, are well aware of those scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associate planner Steve Engfer points to many practices he hopes remain in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was “hydraulic mining, where they would mine whole mountainsides and all the silt and everything just washes downstream, river amalgamation processes where there were chemicals involved that weren’t as regulated as we would have today,” he says. And there were many others. Engfer believes with diligence, gold mining can be both environmentally responsible and a driver of economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County resident Les Overstreet isn’t convinced either is true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lives a few miles away from the Fremont Gold site and says he plans to push back against any plans to develop a mine. He worries about how it could strain local infrastructure and water resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen environmentally to the wild and scenic Merced River, and then also the lake?” he asks. “It’d be very difficult to keep things like surfactants out the lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Gold expects to spend another few years drilling and surveying. A mine would be many years further down the road, after more permitting and opportunity for public comment.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A Canadian company estimates there’s far more gold still in a piece of property in Mariposa County than what was extracted during 100 years of mining there.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1522800766,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":957},"headData":{"title":"There’s (Still) Gold in These California Hills, But Mining It Again Isn't Simple | KQED","description":"A Canadian company estimates there’s far more gold still in a piece of property in Mariposa County than what was extracted during 100 years of mining there.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11659630 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11659630","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/04/03/theres-still-gold-in-these-california-hills-but-mining-it-again-isnt-simple/","disqusTitle":"There’s (Still) Gold in These California Hills, But Mining It Again Isn't Simple","source":"Valley Public Radio","sourceUrl":"http://kvpr.org/","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2018/04/KleinGoldMiningToday.mp3","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/people/kerry-klein\">Kerry Klein\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","path":"/news/11659630/theres-still-gold-in-these-california-hills-but-mining-it-again-isnt-simple","audioDuration":199000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This year marks the 170th anniversary of the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, north of Sacramento. The legacy of the Gold Rush is inescapable in Northern California, particularly in Mariposa County. It’s visible in mining museums, at roadside historical sites and in county buildings on Bullion Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What hasn’t persisted in this region is gold mining itself. But one Canadian company wants to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Long works on a few thousand acres in the Mariposa County foothills. He doesn’t have to go far to be reminded of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve recovered old wheelbarrows, old shovels and picks, steel lunchboxes, old ore carts,\" he says. \"There was even a bit of railway track where they used to push through carts of rock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After 170 years, Long is here to reignite this historic industry. He’s the exploration manager for Fremont Gold Mining, a small company prospecting for gold on a hillside overlooking Lake McClure. Inside a warehouse, geologists examine rock samples, and outside, another cuts rock with a saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately the goal is to have a mine and to create good jobs for people throughout the county, throughout the state,” Long says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Gold’s property lies along the famed Mother Lode Gold Belt, which stretches 120 miles from Mariposa north into El Dorado County. Since the 1840s, it’s been home to hundreds of gold mines that have extracted millions of ounces of the mineral. By some estimates, however, literally tons of gold still lie buried here. Fremont Gold hopes to make those potential resources a reality -- but history suggests it's likely to face an uphill battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659646\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659646\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"Despite the name, Fremont Gold Mining is an exploration company, completing many years of surveying, sampling and drilling before deciding whether a mine could be economically feasible.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-1180x817.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-960x665.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-240x166.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-375x260.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/GoldMiningKlein-520x360.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Despite the name, Fremont Gold Mining is an exploration company, completing many years of surveying, sampling and drilling before deciding whether a mine could be economically feasible. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To be clear, Fremont Gold Mining is not actually mining. It’s exploring. Its job is to determine how much gold its property contains, which involves surveying, sampling and drilling. After exploring a quarter of its property, the company estimates it has already defined close to 900,000 ounces of gold -- far more than what was already extracted during 100 years of mining on the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If so much gold remains in the hills here, exploration companies must be stampeding back to the Mother Lode, right? Nope. Throughout the five counties containing the gold belt, only one gold mine is active, and only intermittently. Other exploration projects have folded, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Clinkenbeard with the California Geological Survey says that’s because the mineral itself is only one component of an economical operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Gold production increases and decreases with the economy and with wars,” he says. “A whole lot of things influence what happened [since the Gold Rush].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'[In the 19th century] you simply mined, and then when you were done you walked away, and you left the land with significant scars and in some cases ... public hazards.'\u003ccite>Pat Perez, California Department of Conservation\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Although the price of gold has dropped from its peak in 2012, after inflation it’s still about 2.5 times higher than its value in the 1840s. But gold operations themselves have become much pricier since then, with more advanced technology and higher labor costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vishal Gupta is CEO of California Gold Mining, the Canadian company that owns Fremont Gold. He says another reason gold mining slowed is because this is California, ground zero for environmentalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I won’t say there was a moratorium on any gold mining since the Second World War,” he says, “but it had become increasingly difficult for gold and other commodity-based companies to do any sort of a business within the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat Perez, with the California Department of Conservation, says that’s for good reason. In the 19th century, long before the California Environmental Quality Act and the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act, environmental accountability simply wasn’t a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You simply mined, and then when you were done you walked away, and you left the land with significant scars and in some cases environmental challenges and public hazards,” Perez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11659693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11659693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Mariposa County resident Les Overstreet is concerned about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts a mine would have, and doesn't want the environmental negligence of the gold rush era.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/MariposaGoldOverstreet-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariposa County resident Les Overstreet is concerned about the socioeconomic and environmental impacts a mine would have, and doesn't want the environmental negligence of the Gold Rush era. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/Valley Public Radio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mariposa County officials, who handle local permitting, are well aware of those scars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associate planner Steve Engfer points to many practices he hopes remain in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was “hydraulic mining, where they would mine whole mountainsides and all the silt and everything just washes downstream, river amalgamation processes where there were chemicals involved that weren’t as regulated as we would have today,” he says. And there were many others. Engfer believes with diligence, gold mining can be both environmentally responsible and a driver of economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County resident Les Overstreet isn’t convinced either is true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He lives a few miles away from the Fremont Gold site and says he plans to push back against any plans to develop a mine. He worries about how it could strain local infrastructure and water resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen environmentally to the wild and scenic Merced River, and then also the lake?” he asks. “It’d be very difficult to keep things like surfactants out the lake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fremont Gold expects to spend another few years drilling and surveying. A mine would be many years further down the road, after more permitting and opportunity for public comment.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11659630/theres-still-gold-in-these-california-hills-but-mining-it-again-isnt-simple","authors":["byline_news_11659630"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1758","news_19906","news_8","news_356"],"tags":["news_3601","news_1368","news_18607"],"affiliates":["news_18382"],"featImg":"news_11659634","label":"source_news_11659630"},"news_11656118":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11656118","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11656118","score":null,"sort":[1521246972000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-latter-day-miner-just-dumb-enough-to-chase-a-gold-rush-dream","title":"A Latter-Day Miner Still Chasing The Gold Rush Dream","publishDate":1521246972,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]R[/dropcap]ight after we meet, Shannon Poe asks me if I’m a) allergic to poison oak and b) freaked out by ghosts. Because where we’re going, he says, there’s a lot of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything out here either stings you, sticks you or bites you, but we still love it,\" he says. \"Now let’s go find some gold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe is a professional small-scale gold miner, a rare breed of Californian still chasing the Gold Rush dream. I’m tagging along with him and his buddy Don, a retired potato chip salesman from Modesto, as they head out to explore their new claim at the bottom of a small canyon near the North Fork of the Merced River. And Poe’s feeling good about the prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See that little cut in the hillside? That little gully,” he says, pointing towards a small canyon. “That is where all those nuggets are coming down right onto our claim. That’s where we’re going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We start out at Poe’s property in the tiny town of Greeley Hill, tucked into the foothills just west of Yosemite. Aside from a small garage workshop packed with mining gear, the spread is mostly undeveloped, a random assortment of machines and tools scattered about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe says he bought the land from an old miner about 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found a guy that had 10 acres up here and I offered him basically a baby food jar of gold” Poe had \"pulled out of the ground\" nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He took it, and we own the property now,\" Poe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe’s a stocky guy in his mid-50s, with the weathered skin and gruff manner of someone who spends a lot of time alone in the woods. He’s intense, gregarious and quirky, with a mischievous grin and flair for the grandiose. One minute he’s recounting some daring mining exploit in Papua New Guinea, the next boasting about his supremacy as a fudge-maker in a yearly Christmastime cookoff with a neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We throw our gear into Poe’s dusty Kawasaki four-wheeler, he fires it up, and we head for the claim on nearby federal land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon we’re roaring down rutted fire roads onto federal land, through a dry landscape of oak and manzanita. The hills above are barren except for the charred skeletons of trees burned in last year's huge, destructive Detwiler Fire. Yosemite's high country rises up to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s beautiful, but far from pristine -- an environment that’s been used hard since gold was discovered on the American River in 1848. The roadside is littered with a strange amalgam of old and new trash: the occasional soiled mattress and dumped garbage alongside huge multi-ton mining machinery and metal pipes that were hauled into the hills more than a century ago and left to rust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11656296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-1180x831.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-960x676.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mining equipment abandoned in the Mother Lode country near the Merced River west of Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Poe kills the engine on the Kawasaki, and we scamper down a trail to the creek below. He drops his pack and starts sniffing around like a bloodhound, eyes fixed to the ground, tapping on rocks, weaving around thick tangles of poison oak and pointing out the sporadic pile of bear and cougar scat.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">'\u003cstrong>In order to be a good gold miner,\u003c/strong> you really need to understand geology, hydrology, topography and be just dumb enough to come out and work your ass off to try to find it.'\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He stops at a bend in the creek, zeroing in on what he calls the drop zone, where the current is slow enough for small particles of gold to fall out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I think we’re going to find some places here,” he says. “See what we can come up with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe digs up a shovelful of rock and sand from the creek bed then washes out the sediment in his ribbed gold pan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing in that,\" he says. \"I've got to get to the bottom of that crack before we're going too find anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]lacer mining is a kind of surface-level scavenging. It’s a low-tech, highly repetitive activity, requiring some serious persistence: scooping and filtering rocks and sand from creekbeds over and over again, holding out hope that gold will eventually materialize. Like California's early gold seekers, most modern small-scale miners use little more than a shovel, a pick and simple devices like a gold pan or sluice box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656374\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11656374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poe shows off some small gold fragments in his pan. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most important skill, Poe says, is knowing what to look for and where to start digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gold is commonly found hidden inside veins of quartz. And the presence of iron, another dense heavy metal like gold, is also a good indicator of its whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say gold rides an iron horse,” he says. “In order to be a good gold miner, you really need to understand geology, hydrology, topography and be just dumb enough to come out and work your ass off to try to find it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the historical element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to know the history in order to find the really good gold,” he insists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re in the heart of the southern Mother Lode, an area criss-crossed with the gold-bearing quartz veins that helped make this ground zero of the Gold Rush. Hordes of prospectors flocked here to strike it rich. Some got lucky. Most didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People came from all over the world,\" Poe says. \"There were newspaper articles in France saying that you could walk around and pick up five-pound nuggets just laying on the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands traveled from the eastern United States and from around the world. The newcomers displaced the remnant Native American population as well as the Spanish-Mexican settlers who had arrived starting in the mid-18th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasure hunters used increasingly more destructive methods to extract gold from streams and hillsides, reaping millions of ounces of the precious metal by 1860.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656373\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11656373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An old, rusted milling machine once used to pulverize rock. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Poe is confident there’s still plenty of gold here. The old-timers left a lot behind, he says, especially in the unexplored ground right below where they built their cabins. Those are the spots he looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that through all of our historical research that this was started to be mined in this particular area in 1851,” he says. “And if they came down and they built a cabin here, there’s a good chance that the ground underneath here has never been touched by human hands before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]oe grew up panning in the streams near his Oregon hometown. But gold fever didn’t fully kick in until he came to California about 15 years ago for a corporate security gig: a loss-prevention investigator charged with weeding out employee theft at a retail businesses in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wore a suit and tie and and I got really sick and tired of company cars and human resources and all that kind of crap,\" he says. \"So I decided to take a year off. ... I had some mining claims and we pulled over six figures in a couple of months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe quit his day job, and after doing some research and gleaning some tips from the veteran miners, started working these hills year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's since become a gold-mining evangelist, touting the pursuit as something of an American birthright, a quintessential exercise in independence and self-determination. He spreads the gospel through a group he formed -- the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanminingrights.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Mining Rights Association\u003c/a> -- which helps other small-scale miners access and defend their claims. His truck is covered in a huge American flag decal along with an image of an eagle, the Constitution and the tagline: “Fighting for your right to mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's about freedom man,\" Poe says. \"I get to do what I want. I'm out in God's country every single day. This is where I have lunch. This is my office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s hardly easy money, Poe says. He proudly rattles off the broken ribs and other common injuries he's incurred on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2906-e1521246813982.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11656120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2906-e1521157524667-800x701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"701\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Poe pans for gold in a creek near the Merced River. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In order to find the really good gold you've got to hike a long ways, and most of the time there are no trails or it's a goat trail,” he says. “What we do is dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you are willing to put in the effort, he says, you can actually make something. Gold is still one of the most valuable commodities in the world. An ounce today goes for about $1,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we get to do is not just fun. It's a hell of a good way to make a living if you really want to,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was one of Poe’s best hauls in years. That’s thanks, in part, to California’s recent extreme weather swings: years of terrible drought followed by last winter’s historic rains created the ideal conditions for small-scale miners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe says trees that bark beetles killed during the drought toppled and formed dams in the creeks, holding back huge volumes of water when the rains came. And then they broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had walls of water that came down these canyons that were sometimes 30, 35, 40 feet tall and it just literally scoured everything,” he describes. “All of that material that we had to dig six and a half feet down to -- all the trees, all the brush, all the poison oak, the blackberries -- it was all gone. And it was bare bedrock. ... We pulled ounces and ounces of gold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]P[/dropcap]oe has a handful of registered mining claims in the hills here. They’re all on public land, so anyone else can hike and camp on them. But as the claim owner, he has exclusive access to the minerals underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a right Poe guards vigilantly, and one that sometimes puts him at odds with environmentalists who often have different visions for how public land should be used. He's particularly bitter about California’s moratorium on a mining technique called suction dredging that involves vacuuming the bottom of a stream and filtering out the sediment with a motorized pump. The state temporarily banned the method in 2009 out of concern that it could disrupt stream ecosystems, and harm native fish habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe dismisses these concerns. He argues there’s been little scientific evidence to support them, and the ban has caused real financial hardship for serious miners. His income dropped dramatically as a result of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want to protect our natural resources and protect the environment,” Poe says. “But then again, there's fundamental rights that small miners have when you own a claim. You know I own the gold on this ground here. I should be able to get it. That doesn’t mean I should be able to bring a D11 (bulldozer) in here and rip a mountain away or dump mercury in the water. But that’s not what we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656372\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11656372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mouth of a lode mine that Poe estimates was dynamited out more than 100 years ago. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After lunch, we hop back on his four-wheeler to check out some of the \"haunted\" old mines Poe's been mentioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an embankment about 100 feet above the creek, we come to rickety picnic table at the gaping mouth of a mine Poe estimates was dynamited out in the 1860s or 1870s. The tunnel’s about 12 feet wide, disappearing quickly into darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This actually has tunnels that go on for a couple of miles,” he says. “There are some rooms inside this lode mine that are the size of basketball courts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u003cstrong>'There's fundamental rights\u003c/strong> that small miners have when you own a claim. You know I own the gold on this ground here. I should be able to get it.'\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You can still see the remnants of the makeshift shelves the miners chiseled into the walls to hold oil lanterns. Cool air blows out from deep within the shaft. Poe says it's always 64 degrees at this spot, no matter what the temperature outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's why we set up the picnic table,\" he says. \"It's a great place to camp, if you're not afraid of ghosts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Poe, there are tons of lode mines like these sprinkled throughout the hills. Most aren’t marked on any maps and remain hidden under thick layers of brush. He just recently discovered a whole string of them after last summer's fire swept through and cleaned out much of the vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe says there’s still a good amount of gold left in many of these mines - mostly in the waste pile tailings the old timers left behind. But venturing inside them is extremely risky - many are on the verge of collapse, their walls often held up by little more than 150-year-old rotting wood supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This goes back to that whole thing when we talk about ghosts,” he says. “Imagine how many miners died up here in the 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, and I mean just got crushed and their buddies drug ‘em out and buried them right next to the mine shaft. I mean I wouldn't be surprised if we're 50 feet from dead people right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses to let me look around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you sit here and there was absolutely no sound or anything else like that, you would hear people using picks inside here,” he tells me earnestly. “I’ve heard it dozens of times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the creek, Poe wrestles with a large rock on the stream bed, and I help him roll it over. He grabs some debris and pans it. Grinning, he hands me a tiny speck of gold, not much bigger than an apple seed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s some nice gold there,” he says. “How’s that? Not bad. $20 pan. Way cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the big nugget I was envisioning, but there is a small thrill in finding even a tiny piece of the glimmering mineral just lying there on the creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's really $20 worth of gold?\" I ask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, easily,” he insists. “Thin stuff, but nice. Here you gotta take that home with you and tell everybody you found gold. You moved the rock.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A member of a rare breed scours the state's Mother Lode country in search of undiscovered treasure. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1521327121,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":62,"wordCount":2570},"headData":{"title":"A Latter-Day Miner Still Chasing The Gold Rush Dream | KQED","description":"A member of a rare breed scours the state's Mother Lode country in search of undiscovered treasure. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11656118 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11656118","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/03/16/a-latter-day-miner-just-dumb-enough-to-chase-a-gold-rush-dream/","disqusTitle":"A Latter-Day Miner Still Chasing The Gold Rush Dream","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/03/TCRMAG20180316b.mp3","path":"/news/11656118/a-latter-day-miner-just-dumb-enough-to-chase-a-gold-rush-dream","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">R\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ight after we meet, Shannon Poe asks me if I’m a) allergic to poison oak and b) freaked out by ghosts. Because where we’re going, he says, there’s a lot of both.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything out here either stings you, sticks you or bites you, but we still love it,\" he says. \"Now let’s go find some gold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe is a professional small-scale gold miner, a rare breed of Californian still chasing the Gold Rush dream. I’m tagging along with him and his buddy Don, a retired potato chip salesman from Modesto, as they head out to explore their new claim at the bottom of a small canyon near the North Fork of the Merced River. And Poe’s feeling good about the prospects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See that little cut in the hillside? That little gully,” he says, pointing towards a small canyon. “That is where all those nuggets are coming down right onto our claim. That’s where we’re going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We start out at Poe’s property in the tiny town of Greeley Hill, tucked into the foothills just west of Yosemite. Aside from a small garage workshop packed with mining gear, the spread is mostly undeveloped, a random assortment of machines and tools scattered about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe says he bought the land from an old miner about 10 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found a guy that had 10 acres up here and I offered him basically a baby food jar of gold” Poe had \"pulled out of the ground\" nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He took it, and we own the property now,\" Poe says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe’s a stocky guy in his mid-50s, with the weathered skin and gruff manner of someone who spends a lot of time alone in the woods. He’s intense, gregarious and quirky, with a mischievous grin and flair for the grandiose. One minute he’s recounting some daring mining exploit in Papua New Guinea, the next boasting about his supremacy as a fudge-maker in a yearly Christmastime cookoff with a neighbor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We throw our gear into Poe’s dusty Kawasaki four-wheeler, he fires it up, and we head for the claim on nearby federal land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon we’re roaring down rutted fire roads onto federal land, through a dry landscape of oak and manzanita. The hills above are barren except for the charred skeletons of trees burned in last year's huge, destructive Detwiler Fire. Yosemite's high country rises up to the east.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s beautiful, but far from pristine -- an environment that’s been used hard since gold was discovered on the American River in 1848. The roadside is littered with a strange amalgam of old and new trash: the occasional soiled mattress and dumped garbage alongside huge multi-ton mining machinery and metal pipes that were hauled into the hills more than a century ago and left to rust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11656296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-800x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-800x563.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-160x113.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-1020x718.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-1180x831.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-960x676.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-240x169.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-375x264.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/shannonpoe2-520x366.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mining equipment abandoned in the Mother Lode country near the Merced River west of Yosemite National Park. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Poe kills the engine on the Kawasaki, and we scamper down a trail to the creek below. He drops his pack and starts sniffing around like a bloodhound, eyes fixed to the ground, tapping on rocks, weaving around thick tangles of poison oak and pointing out the sporadic pile of bear and cougar scat.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">'\u003cstrong>In order to be a good gold miner,\u003c/strong> you really need to understand geology, hydrology, topography and be just dumb enough to come out and work your ass off to try to find it.'\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He stops at a bend in the creek, zeroing in on what he calls the drop zone, where the current is slow enough for small particles of gold to fall out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I think we’re going to find some places here,” he says. “See what we can come up with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe digs up a shovelful of rock and sand from the creek bed then washes out the sediment in his ribbed gold pan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing in that,\" he says. \"I've got to get to the bottom of that crack before we're going too find anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">P\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>lacer mining is a kind of surface-level scavenging. It’s a low-tech, highly repetitive activity, requiring some serious persistence: scooping and filtering rocks and sand from creekbeds over and over again, holding out hope that gold will eventually materialize. Like California's early gold seekers, most modern small-scale miners use little more than a shovel, a pick and simple devices like a gold pan or sluice box.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656374\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11656374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-1020x1360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2909-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poe shows off some small gold fragments in his pan. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The most important skill, Poe says, is knowing what to look for and where to start digging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gold is commonly found hidden inside veins of quartz. And the presence of iron, another dense heavy metal like gold, is also a good indicator of its whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They say gold rides an iron horse,” he says. “In order to be a good gold miner, you really need to understand geology, hydrology, topography and be just dumb enough to come out and work your ass off to try to find it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the historical element.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to know the history in order to find the really good gold,” he insists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re in the heart of the southern Mother Lode, an area criss-crossed with the gold-bearing quartz veins that helped make this ground zero of the Gold Rush. Hordes of prospectors flocked here to strike it rich. Some got lucky. Most didn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People came from all over the world,\" Poe says. \"There were newspaper articles in France saying that you could walk around and pick up five-pound nuggets just laying on the ground.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of thousands traveled from the eastern United States and from around the world. The newcomers displaced the remnant Native American population as well as the Spanish-Mexican settlers who had arrived starting in the mid-18th century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treasure hunters used increasingly more destructive methods to extract gold from streams and hillsides, reaping millions of ounces of the precious metal by 1860.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656373\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11656373\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2925-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An old, rusted milling machine once used to pulverize rock. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Poe is confident there’s still plenty of gold here. The old-timers left a lot behind, he says, especially in the unexplored ground right below where they built their cabins. Those are the spots he looking for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that through all of our historical research that this was started to be mined in this particular area in 1851,” he says. “And if they came down and they built a cabin here, there’s a good chance that the ground underneath here has never been touched by human hands before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">P\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>oe grew up panning in the streams near his Oregon hometown. But gold fever didn’t fully kick in until he came to California about 15 years ago for a corporate security gig: a loss-prevention investigator charged with weeding out employee theft at a retail businesses in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wore a suit and tie and and I got really sick and tired of company cars and human resources and all that kind of crap,\" he says. \"So I decided to take a year off. ... I had some mining claims and we pulled over six figures in a couple of months.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe quit his day job, and after doing some research and gleaning some tips from the veteran miners, started working these hills year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's since become a gold-mining evangelist, touting the pursuit as something of an American birthright, a quintessential exercise in independence and self-determination. He spreads the gospel through a group he formed -- the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanminingrights.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Mining Rights Association\u003c/a> -- which helps other small-scale miners access and defend their claims. His truck is covered in a huge American flag decal along with an image of an eagle, the Constitution and the tagline: “Fighting for your right to mine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's about freedom man,\" Poe says. \"I get to do what I want. I'm out in God's country every single day. This is where I have lunch. This is my office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s hardly easy money, Poe says. He proudly rattles off the broken ribs and other common injuries he's incurred on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2906-e1521246813982.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11656120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2906-e1521157524667-800x701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"701\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Poe pans for gold in a creek near the Merced River. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In order to find the really good gold you've got to hike a long ways, and most of the time there are no trails or it's a goat trail,” he says. “What we do is dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you are willing to put in the effort, he says, you can actually make something. Gold is still one of the most valuable commodities in the world. An ounce today goes for about $1,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we get to do is not just fun. It's a hell of a good way to make a living if you really want to,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year was one of Poe’s best hauls in years. That’s thanks, in part, to California’s recent extreme weather swings: years of terrible drought followed by last winter’s historic rains created the ideal conditions for small-scale miners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe says trees that bark beetles killed during the drought toppled and formed dams in the creeks, holding back huge volumes of water when the rains came. And then they broke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You had walls of water that came down these canyons that were sometimes 30, 35, 40 feet tall and it just literally scoured everything,” he describes. “All of that material that we had to dig six and a half feet down to -- all the trees, all the brush, all the poison oak, the blackberries -- it was all gone. And it was bare bedrock. ... We pulled ounces and ounces of gold.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">P\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>oe has a handful of registered mining claims in the hills here. They’re all on public land, so anyone else can hike and camp on them. But as the claim owner, he has exclusive access to the minerals underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a right Poe guards vigilantly, and one that sometimes puts him at odds with environmentalists who often have different visions for how public land should be used. He's particularly bitter about California’s moratorium on a mining technique called suction dredging that involves vacuuming the bottom of a stream and filtering out the sediment with a motorized pump. The state temporarily banned the method in 2009 out of concern that it could disrupt stream ecosystems, and harm native fish habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe dismisses these concerns. He argues there’s been little scientific evidence to support them, and the ban has caused real financial hardship for serious miners. His income dropped dramatically as a result of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all want to protect our natural resources and protect the environment,” Poe says. “But then again, there's fundamental rights that small miners have when you own a claim. You know I own the gold on this ground here. I should be able to get it. That doesn’t mean I should be able to bring a D11 (bulldozer) in here and rip a mountain away or dump mercury in the water. But that’s not what we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11656372\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-11656372\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-1020x765.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/IMG_2920-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mouth of a lode mine that Poe estimates was dynamited out more than 100 years ago. \u003ccite>(Matthew Green/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After lunch, we hop back on his four-wheeler to check out some of the \"haunted\" old mines Poe's been mentioning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an embankment about 100 feet above the creek, we come to rickety picnic table at the gaping mouth of a mine Poe estimates was dynamited out in the 1860s or 1870s. The tunnel’s about 12 feet wide, disappearing quickly into darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This actually has tunnels that go on for a couple of miles,” he says. “There are some rooms inside this lode mine that are the size of basketball courts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-large;\">\u003cstrong>'There's fundamental rights\u003c/strong> that small miners have when you own a claim. You know I own the gold on this ground here. I should be able to get it.'\u003c/span>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>You can still see the remnants of the makeshift shelves the miners chiseled into the walls to hold oil lanterns. Cool air blows out from deep within the shaft. Poe says it's always 64 degrees at this spot, no matter what the temperature outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's why we set up the picnic table,\" he says. \"It's a great place to camp, if you're not afraid of ghosts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Poe, there are tons of lode mines like these sprinkled throughout the hills. Most aren’t marked on any maps and remain hidden under thick layers of brush. He just recently discovered a whole string of them after last summer's fire swept through and cleaned out much of the vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poe says there’s still a good amount of gold left in many of these mines - mostly in the waste pile tailings the old timers left behind. But venturing inside them is extremely risky - many are on the verge of collapse, their walls often held up by little more than 150-year-old rotting wood supports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This goes back to that whole thing when we talk about ghosts,” he says. “Imagine how many miners died up here in the 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, and I mean just got crushed and their buddies drug ‘em out and buried them right next to the mine shaft. I mean I wouldn't be surprised if we're 50 feet from dead people right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pauses to let me look around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you sit here and there was absolutely no sound or anything else like that, you would hear people using picks inside here,” he tells me earnestly. “I’ve heard it dozens of times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back at the creek, Poe wrestles with a large rock on the stream bed, and I help him roll it over. He grabs some debris and pans it. Grinning, he hands me a tiny speck of gold, not much bigger than an apple seed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s some nice gold there,” he says. “How’s that? Not bad. $20 pan. Way cool.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the big nugget I was envisioning, but there is a small thrill in finding even a tiny piece of the glimmering mineral just lying there on the creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's really $20 worth of gold?\" I ask him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, easily,” he insists. “Thin stuff, but nice. Here you gotta take that home with you and tell everybody you found gold. You moved the rock.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11656118/a-latter-day-miner-just-dumb-enough-to-chase-a-gold-rush-dream","authors":["1263"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20397","news_1368","news_18607","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11656295","label":"news_72"},"news_11627401":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11627401","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11627401","score":null,"sort":[1509749940000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"welcome-to-rough-and-ready-the-tiny-town-that-used-to-be-a-republic","title":"Welcome to Rough and Ready, the Tiny Town That Used to Be a Republic","publishDate":1509749940,"format":"audio","headTitle":"A Place Called What?! | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published in November 2017 as part of The California Report Magazine's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/a-place-called-what\">A Place Called What?!\u003c/a>\" series. It re-aired on July 3rd, 2020 for a special show called \"Buckle Up: A (Virtual) Road Trip to CA Hidden Gems.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayna Ashcraft and her husband have lived in Rough and Ready for 17 years. But when she tells people where she lives, sometimes they don't believe her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They go, 'Are you kidding me?' \" Ashcraft says. \"When I've ordered stuff from different companies, they call back to double-check, making sure that is in fact Rough and Ready.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To add to the disbelief, the Ashcrafts also live on To Hell and Back Lane. \"I think that kind of makes people shocked,\" she tells me. \"Or they laugh. Usually it's a good laugh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rough and Ready is a Nevada County town about 5 miles west of Grass Valley, but don't let its size fool you. This tiny place has a big, presidential history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627915 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-520x340.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old Fippin Blacksmith shop in Rough and Ready. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut-375x282.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jayna and Craig Ashcraft in front of the Fippin Blacksmith shop. \u003ccite>(Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rough and Ready got its name from Captain A.A. Townsend, who served under President Zachary Taylor, whose nickname was \"Old Rough and Ready.\" When Townsend arrived in 1849 and found some mineable gold, he reported back to his president and named the town after him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashcraft says history is a big part of what makes living in Rough and Ready special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's that kind of community where we're very involved with our little town. We're very proud of our history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's plenty of present-day charm here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZUKTQkIbso\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we first got here I was very charmed by a group called the Fruit Jar Pickers,\" says Ashcraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were just starting out with a group of maybe six men at the time, who would just get together on the front porch of the market and play homemade instruments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627920 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-800x501.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-1180x740.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-960x602.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-240x150.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-375x235.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-520x326.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551.jpg 1723w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grange in 1848. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27818_Grange-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27818_Grange-qut.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27818_Grange-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27818_Grange-qut-240x320.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grange today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you visit Rough and Ready, you'll see stores selling hats, flags and mugs emblazoned with \"The Great Republic of Rough and Ready.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>name comes from a moment in history when the townspeople of Rough and Ready decided to secede from the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UzEb4PFz6mnZ1mIab22qYNrPLgI6bEqe\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1850, and the townspeople didn't want to be taxed without government representation. They took a vote and sent paperwork to Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Great Republic didn't last too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Three months later ... some of the townspeople who went to Nevada City to purchase booze for their celebration were not allowed to do so because they were 'foreigners.' They went back to the town and decided to join the nation again,\" Ashcraft says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-520x495.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The oldest headstone in the Rough and Ready Cemetery, where the Ashcrafts plan to be buried. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ashcraft and her husband have no plans to leave Rough and Ready anytime soon. In fact, they just bought their plot in the old cemetery where they want to be buried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashcraft thinks this is a place that all Californians should stop and visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if you're just driving down the road, you're going to blink and miss it. There's so much more there. Don’t pass history by!\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"As part of our series on unusual California place names, we stop by the Great Republic of Rough and Ready, a tiny town with a big, presidential history.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1593650505,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":593},"headData":{"title":"Welcome to Rough and Ready, the Tiny Town That Used to Be a Republic | KQED","description":"As part of our series on unusual California place names, we stop by the Great Republic of Rough and Ready, a tiny town with a big, presidential history.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11627401 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11627401","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/11/03/welcome-to-rough-and-ready-the-tiny-town-that-used-to-be-a-republic/","disqusTitle":"Welcome to Rough and Ready, the Tiny Town That Used to Be a Republic","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/11/RoughAndReady.mp3","path":"/news/11627401/welcome-to-rough-and-ready-the-tiny-town-that-used-to-be-a-republic","audioDuration":191000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published in November 2017 as part of The California Report Magazine's \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/a-place-called-what\">A Place Called What?!\u003c/a>\" series. It re-aired on July 3rd, 2020 for a special show called \"Buckle Up: A (Virtual) Road Trip to CA Hidden Gems.\" \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayna Ashcraft and her husband have lived in Rough and Ready for 17 years. But when she tells people where she lives, sometimes they don't believe her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They go, 'Are you kidding me?' \" Ashcraft says. \"When I've ordered stuff from different companies, they call back to double-check, making sure that is in fact Rough and Ready.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To add to the disbelief, the Ashcrafts also live on To Hell and Back Lane. \"I think that kind of makes people shocked,\" she tells me. \"Or they laugh. Usually it's a good laugh.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rough and Ready is a Nevada County town about 5 miles west of Grass Valley, but don't let its size fool you. This tiny place has a big, presidential history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627915 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-800x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-800x523.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-1180x771.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-960x627.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-240x157.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-375x245.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482-520x340.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27820_Fippin-Blacksmith-Shop-1897-1902-qut-e1509732522482.jpg 1704w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old Fippin Blacksmith shop in Rough and Ready. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627922\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut-375x282.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27830_IMG_4880-qut-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jayna and Craig Ashcraft in front of the Fippin Blacksmith shop. \u003ccite>(Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rough and Ready got its name from Captain A.A. Townsend, who served under President Zachary Taylor, whose nickname was \"Old Rough and Ready.\" When Townsend arrived in 1849 and found some mineable gold, he reported back to his president and named the town after him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashcraft says history is a big part of what makes living in Rough and Ready special.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's that kind of community where we're very involved with our little town. We're very proud of our history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's plenty of present-day charm here, too.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/cZUKTQkIbso'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cZUKTQkIbso'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\"When we first got here I was very charmed by a group called the Fruit Jar Pickers,\" says Ashcraft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were just starting out with a group of maybe six men at the time, who would just get together on the front porch of the market and play homemade instruments.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11627920 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-800x501.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-1180x740.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-960x602.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-240x150.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-375x235.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551-520x326.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27823_Grange-1948-qut-e1509732751551.jpg 1723w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grange in 1848. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627919\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 375px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11627919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27818_Grange-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27818_Grange-qut.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27818_Grange-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27818_Grange-qut-240x320.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Grange today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you visit Rough and Ready, you'll see stores selling hats, flags and mugs emblazoned with \"The Great Republic of Rough and Ready.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>name comes from a moment in history when the townspeople of Rough and Ready decided to secede from the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was 1850, and the townspeople didn't want to be taxed without government representation. They took a vote and sent paperwork to Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Great Republic didn't last too long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Three months later ... some of the townspeople who went to Nevada City to purchase booze for their celebration were not allowed to do so because they were 'foreigners.' They went back to the town and decided to join the nation again,\" Ashcraft says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11627927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11627927\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-800x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-800x761.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-160x152.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-240x228.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-375x357.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut-520x495.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/11/RS27831_Buffington-Headstone-qut.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The oldest headstone in the Rough and Ready Cemetery, where the Ashcrafts plan to be buried. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jayna Ashcraft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ashcraft and her husband have no plans to leave Rough and Ready anytime soon. In fact, they just bought their plot in the old cemetery where they want to be buried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ashcraft thinks this is a place that all Californians should stop and visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if you're just driving down the road, you're going to blink and miss it. There's so much more there. Don’t pass history by!\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11627401/welcome-to-rough-and-ready-the-tiny-town-that-used-to-be-a-republic","authors":["11365"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_21844"],"categories":["news_223","news_8"],"tags":["news_20397","news_1368","news_5930","news_17286"],"featImg":"news_11628041","label":"news_72"},"news_83204":{"type":"posts","id":"news_83204","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"83204","score":null,"sort":[1355855798000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"molten-gold-signals-revival-in-calif-mother-lode","title":"New Gold Fever Spurs Reopening of Big Calif. Mine","publishDate":1355855798,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>by Don Thompson, Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SUTTER CREEK, Calif. (AP) — The gold miners who made California famous were the rugged loners trying to shake nuggets loose from streams or hillsides. The ones who made the state rich were those who worked for big mining companies that blasted gold from an underground world of dust and darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83206\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Panning-Fo-rGold.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-83206\" title=\"Panning Fo rGold\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Panning-Fo-rGold-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man pans for gold in the Bear River near Grass Valley, Calif. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last of the state's great mines closed because mining gold proved unprofitable after World War II. But with the price of the metal near historic highs, hovering around $1,700 an ounce, the California Mother Lode's first large-scale hard rock gold mining operation in a half-century is coming back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miners are digging again where their forebears once unearthed riches from eight historic mines that honeycomb Sutter Gold Mining Co.'s holdings about 50 miles southeast of Sacramento. Last week, mill superintendent Paul Skinner poured the first thin stream of glowing molten gold into a mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing quite like it,\" murmured Skinner, who has been mining for 65 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/05/09/calif-considers-new-gold-mining-rules/\">Calif. Considers New Gold Mining Rules\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2011/07/06/60136/mining_companies_on_quest_to_cash_in_on_gold?source=npr&category=economy\">Mining Companies On Quest To Cash In On Gold\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It was just four ounces, culled from more than eight tons of ore, but it signaled the end of $20 million worth of construction and the pending start of production. The company announced the ceremonial first pour before financial markets opened Monday, marking the mine's official reincarnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By spring, the company's 110 employees expect to be removing 150 tons of ore a day from a site immediately north of the old Lincoln Mine, enough to produce nearly 2,000 ounces of gold each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company projects resources of more than 682,000 ounces of gold worth more than $1 billion at today's prices. Company officials say they are confident there is far more in their historically rich section of the 120-mile-long Mother Lode region of the Sierra Nevada foothills.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the mine has been anything but a gold rush, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took three decades for the mine's operators to obtain more than 40 environmental permits. By contrast, the old Wild West miners wreaked such devastation that they prompted some of the nation's first conservation efforts nearly 130 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've gone from no regulation to probably the other extreme,\" said Bob Hutmacher, the company's chief financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, most of California's gold has come from the state's desert regions. However, high gold prices recently spurred what authorities say was a rogue surface gold mine in El Dorado County, east of Sacramento. The owners now face criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther north, several mines have started the process to reopen. Most of these kinds of hard rock mines have recently been known more as tourist destinations, including the Empire Mine, which was once the state's largest hard rock mine. It became a state historic site after it closed in 1956.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Gold's mine also hosted underground tours featuring gold mining history until about a year ago. A half-million people took the tours before they were halted for insurance reasons as the company scrambled to begin production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miners have now burrowed more than a half-mile underground and are digging another half-mile network of tunnels to reach the milky white quartz deposits that contain the gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six-hundred vertical feet underground, Keith Emerald was soaking wet in a T-shirt, rubber boots and bib overalls in the damp, chilly mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only light came from his battery-operated hardhat headlamp as he leaned into a deafening 135-pound jackleg pneumatic drill, driving an 8 1/2-foot-long bit repeatedly into a wall of solid rock. The more than 30 holes he drilled were packed with explosives to reduce a head-high archway to rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fire in the hole,\" came a disembodied voice over the mine's radio system hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The miners are using tools like the jackleg drill that have changed little in a century because they are searching for relatively narrow bands of quartz, averaging 2.4 feet wide. That makes it too costly to use modern mechanized equipment that would churn out tons of worthless rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This harkens back to the 19th century where you follow the gold veins,\" said chief operating officer Matt Collins. \"We're throwbacks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their predecessors pried 3.5 million ounces of gold from the ground underlying the company's holdings before the last mine, the Eureka, closed in 1958.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has mining rights under about 4.5 miles of the Mother Lode between the quaint Gold Rush communities of Sutter Creek, population 2,500, and Amador City, with 200 residents. The mining area roughly parallels Highway 49, named after the miners who rushed to California from around the globe after gold was discovered in 1849.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Creek is the namesake of John Sutter of gold discovery fame. The nearby mines once made Hetty Green the nation's richest woman and propelled the success of railroad baron Leland Stanford, who went on to become governor and found Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the towns boast more about their proximity to foothill wineries and the restaurants, boutiques and antique stores that line their historic main streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Highway) 49 is known as the Gold Rush road. If there's gold to be found, I think it should be mined,\" said Jan Hicks, who lives in nearby Jackson but clerks in an 1869 Amador City building that once housed a general store catering to miners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's still an allure, the mining history,\" Hicks said as she unpacked tourist knickknacks in what is now a home and garden shop. \"We're very fortunate. We have gold and grapes and antiques. What isn't there to love?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald \"Pat\" Crosby, 85, moved to Sutter Creek in 1959, just in time to watch the gold, sand, clay and logging industries peter out. The former city councilman remembers laughing at the Lincoln Mine owner who first proposed reopening the mine two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to make more off of tourism than you ever would from gold,\" Crosby recalls telling the owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, gold is taking the first step coming back. Thank God for that — I never thought it would.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1355856215,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1061},"headData":{"title":"New Gold Fever Spurs Reopening of Big Calif. Mine | KQED","description":"by Don Thompson, Associated Press SUTTER CREEK, Calif. (AP) — The gold miners who made California famous were the rugged loners trying to shake nuggets loose from streams or hillsides. The ones who made the state rich were those who worked for big mining companies that blasted gold from an underground world of dust and","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"83204 http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=83204","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/18/molten-gold-signals-revival-in-calif-mother-lode/","disqusTitle":"New Gold Fever Spurs Reopening of Big Calif. Mine","path":"/news/83204/molten-gold-signals-revival-in-calif-mother-lode","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>by Don Thompson, Associated Press\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SUTTER CREEK, Calif. (AP) — The gold miners who made California famous were the rugged loners trying to shake nuggets loose from streams or hillsides. The ones who made the state rich were those who worked for big mining companies that blasted gold from an underground world of dust and darkness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_83206\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Panning-Fo-rGold.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-83206\" title=\"Panning Fo rGold\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/Panning-Fo-rGold-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man pans for gold in the Bear River near Grass Valley, Calif. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The last of the state's great mines closed because mining gold proved unprofitable after World War II. But with the price of the metal near historic highs, hovering around $1,700 an ounce, the California Mother Lode's first large-scale hard rock gold mining operation in a half-century is coming back to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miners are digging again where their forebears once unearthed riches from eight historic mines that honeycomb Sutter Gold Mining Co.'s holdings about 50 miles southeast of Sacramento. Last week, mill superintendent Paul Skinner poured the first thin stream of glowing molten gold into a mold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nothing quite like it,\" murmured Skinner, who has been mining for 65 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/05/09/calif-considers-new-gold-mining-rules/\">Calif. Considers New Gold Mining Rules\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/story/2011/07/06/60136/mining_companies_on_quest_to_cash_in_on_gold?source=npr&category=economy\">Mining Companies On Quest To Cash In On Gold\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>It was just four ounces, culled from more than eight tons of ore, but it signaled the end of $20 million worth of construction and the pending start of production. The company announced the ceremonial first pour before financial markets opened Monday, marking the mine's official reincarnation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By spring, the company's 110 employees expect to be removing 150 tons of ore a day from a site immediately north of the old Lincoln Mine, enough to produce nearly 2,000 ounces of gold each month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company projects resources of more than 682,000 ounces of gold worth more than $1 billion at today's prices. Company officials say they are confident there is far more in their historically rich section of the 120-mile-long Mother Lode region of the Sierra Nevada foothills.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reopening the mine has been anything but a gold rush, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took three decades for the mine's operators to obtain more than 40 environmental permits. By contrast, the old Wild West miners wreaked such devastation that they prompted some of the nation's first conservation efforts nearly 130 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've gone from no regulation to probably the other extreme,\" said Bob Hutmacher, the company's chief financial officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, most of California's gold has come from the state's desert regions. However, high gold prices recently spurred what authorities say was a rogue surface gold mine in El Dorado County, east of Sacramento. The owners now face criminal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farther north, several mines have started the process to reopen. Most of these kinds of hard rock mines have recently been known more as tourist destinations, including the Empire Mine, which was once the state's largest hard rock mine. It became a state historic site after it closed in 1956.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Gold's mine also hosted underground tours featuring gold mining history until about a year ago. A half-million people took the tours before they were halted for insurance reasons as the company scrambled to begin production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miners have now burrowed more than a half-mile underground and are digging another half-mile network of tunnels to reach the milky white quartz deposits that contain the gold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six-hundred vertical feet underground, Keith Emerald was soaking wet in a T-shirt, rubber boots and bib overalls in the damp, chilly mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The only light came from his battery-operated hardhat headlamp as he leaned into a deafening 135-pound jackleg pneumatic drill, driving an 8 1/2-foot-long bit repeatedly into a wall of solid rock. The more than 30 holes he drilled were packed with explosives to reduce a head-high archway to rubble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Fire in the hole,\" came a disembodied voice over the mine's radio system hours later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The miners are using tools like the jackleg drill that have changed little in a century because they are searching for relatively narrow bands of quartz, averaging 2.4 feet wide. That makes it too costly to use modern mechanized equipment that would churn out tons of worthless rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This harkens back to the 19th century where you follow the gold veins,\" said chief operating officer Matt Collins. \"We're throwbacks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their predecessors pried 3.5 million ounces of gold from the ground underlying the company's holdings before the last mine, the Eureka, closed in 1958.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has mining rights under about 4.5 miles of the Mother Lode between the quaint Gold Rush communities of Sutter Creek, population 2,500, and Amador City, with 200 residents. The mining area roughly parallels Highway 49, named after the miners who rushed to California from around the globe after gold was discovered in 1849.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sutter Creek is the namesake of John Sutter of gold discovery fame. The nearby mines once made Hetty Green the nation's richest woman and propelled the success of railroad baron Leland Stanford, who went on to become governor and found Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the towns boast more about their proximity to foothill wineries and the restaurants, boutiques and antique stores that line their historic main streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Highway) 49 is known as the Gold Rush road. If there's gold to be found, I think it should be mined,\" said Jan Hicks, who lives in nearby Jackson but clerks in an 1869 Amador City building that once housed a general store catering to miners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's still an allure, the mining history,\" Hicks said as she unpacked tourist knickknacks in what is now a home and garden shop. \"We're very fortunate. We have gold and grapes and antiques. What isn't there to love?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Donald \"Pat\" Crosby, 85, moved to Sutter Creek in 1959, just in time to watch the gold, sand, clay and logging industries peter out. The former city councilman remembers laughing at the Lincoln Mine owner who first proposed reopening the mine two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're going to make more off of tourism than you ever would from gold,\" Crosby recalls telling the owner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Now, gold is taking the first step coming back. Thank God for that — I never thought it would.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/83204/molten-gold-signals-revival-in-calif-mother-lode","authors":["237"],"programs":["news_6944"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8"],"tags":["news_3601","news_1368"],"label":"news_6944"},"news_26806":{"type":"posts","id":"news_26806","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"26806","score":null,"sort":[1304985995000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"calif-considers-new-gold-mining-rules","title":"Calif. Considers New Gold Mining Rules","publishDate":1304985995,"format":"aside","headTitle":"News Fix | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":6944,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26809\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/P1010410.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/05/P1010410-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Dunn demonstrates gold panning with material dredged from a California riverbed.\" title=\"Goldmining\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26809\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Dunn demonstrates gold panning with material dredged from a California riverbed.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gold prices are up, and California is preparing to allow dredging for gold in rivers and streams. But environmental groups are concerned about the impact to fish habitat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The original 49ers – the prospectors who scoured the Sierra foothills during California’s Gold Rush – mostly relied on a simple and environmentally friendly piece of equipment: the gold pan. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Concord, Mike Dunn teaches some of those old panning techniques in a weekly class at his store \u003ca href=\"http://goldpancalifornia.com/\">Gold Pan California\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“See how the gold sits right there? Fan it out a little bit and just lift it out of the water,” he says, swirling a pan in a tub of water. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s prospectors also rely on heavier equipment: the \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldpancalifornia.com/custom\">suction dredge\u003c/a>. It’s similar to a large floating vacuum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re in wetsuits moving rocks underwater by hand and vacuuming up the sand and gravels in between… and hopefully some gold,” says Dunn. The heavier material is collected in a sluice box, while the lighter material is released back into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With gold prices topping $1,500 an ounce, a weekend trip can be lucrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My typical take would three quarters of an ounce to an ounce. And this is significant enough income to change most people’s lives for the better,” says Dunn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for almost two years, using this equipment has been banned while the state considers the environmental impact on salmon and other fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the dredgers are going in, they’re stirring up a lot of fine sediment and that may be moving downstream. And the issue there is, when the water is muddy, fish that need to feed visually can’t see their food,” says U.C. Davis biologist Lisa Thompson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others are concerned that the suctioning also picks up mercury, adding it back into the river. Scientists say the dredging equipment can actually capture some mercury, smaller particles are re-suspended in the water and travel downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Game has \u003ca href=\"http://www.dfg.ca.gov/suctiondredge/\">proposed rules\u003c/a> to limit when and where the mining can be done. The agency’s Mark Stopher says the limits were written to avoid fish spawning season and rivers with threatened species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules also cap the number of dredging permits at 4,000 and limit the size of the dredging equipment. 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