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Picks & Pans: More Big River Dredging in Northern California

As the mining club in Happy Camp had lowered their initial joining price to something even a dirt-poor, full-time gold dredger like me could afford, I joined—and then impatiently awaited the coming of dredging season.

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Randsburg—Still Going Strong


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