Men work on a flume for a U.S. Gold Placers mining operation beside the San Miguel River in Montrose or San Miguel County, Colorado. The workmen pose near a wooden flume that is under construction. Shows piles of lumber.
San Miguel River (Colo.-Utah)--1880-1890.; Construction.; Flumes.; Gold mining.; Hydraulic mining.; Laborers.; Rivers.
View of a man using "Hydraulic Chief" type nozzles to aim jets of water at an eroded bluff, in (probably) California. Another man stoops in the gold mine, wearing a raincoat.