A community dump occupies the spot today, but Mooers and Singleton set up camp on the mountain. Both men started looking for the gold specks that Mooers had seen on his previous trip the year before.
Singleton noticed a rock that looked different than the others, and he broke a chunk off it. He then cried out; for the quantity of gold now visible came from the same kind of rock that Mooers had found gold in, during his last trip.
What was more, was that this gold turned out to be a lode deposit-which meant that expensive machinery would be needed in order to extract the gold and turn the claim into a profitable operation.
More to come...
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