Note the length of the boom. Broken shattered ground in the foreground is frozen. In the background is a section of the over burden to be washed away before the gold bearing gravel is reached. This is from 60 to 125 feet in thickness.
Upper strata is somewhat barren.
Real value to be found in the greater depth. But not a poorman's mine. F.E. Co., subsidiary of the U.S. Smelting Refining.