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There were several ways to search for gold. The most popular and the cheapest was panning for gold. They also built "machines" to help seek gold faster. One was called a "rocker" and it was a wooden box with rockers on the bottom. Dirt would go into the top the rocker and water was added so it would wash down a channel with traces to catch the gold flakes. Another with the same idea was called a sluice. The sluice also used a method to wash the dirt away from the gold and have the flakes show up. Mining was also done and there was also a pressured hose used to wash away hillsides looking for gold. Today in the areas where this was done you can still see the damage to the land and some of the machines were left where they sat in 1850.

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