Ghosts Live Here.... During the late 1800's, Caucasian miners worked claims in the surrounding hills until and abandoned them when it was thought that all of the gold was gone. Chinese miners then moved in and started working the abandoned claims. Using unique short-handled shovels, the Chinese were able to work the "nooks and crannies" ignored by the whites. Legend had it that some of the whites resented the Chinese miners' success and blew up a few of the mines-with Chinese miners still inside them! Nearly one hundred years later, prospectors digging out some of the old mines discovered human bones in them.......along with short-handled shovels. Photo by Scott Schwartz
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