Brooker Collection 82-P-01-21

82-P-01-21
Billy Burns boiler house on Little Eldorado Creek. Hector Burns left, Edgar Brooker Jr. (age 4), unknown, and Mark Burns at right. The vertical objects are steam points: heavy-wall steel tubing with a large-diameter head and a nipple on the side. Steam hoses were connected to the nipples and the points driven into the gold-bearing gravel using sledge hammers. After hours of steaming, men with picks and shovels got out the gold-bearing gravel, hoisted it to the surface for sluicing and recovery of the gold. 1910.