Local historian, Jerry Brady outlines a car-based tour of mining sites in the area (Lowell Hill Rd, Red Dog Rd, Chalk Bluff Rd, You Bet, Bear River), with short walks at stops, a note about private property, and a post-tour lunch by the lake. The narration includes informal exchanges, introductions (Lydia, Jerry Brady), jokes about snakes, and mentions a large turnout in You Bet, suggesting the tour could become a book. Historical notes cover mid-19th century mining camps and early gold discoveries around Bear River and Wilcox Ravine, with references to mining districts (Corn Hill, Chalk Bluff, Hankins Canyon), hydraulic mining, workforce changes through 1849–1880, and estimates of gold production. Later sections describe 1910-era landmarks (Cloudman, Fox General Store, You Bet School) and an underground network of tunnels and routes tied to local landmarks, alongside reminiscences of childhood exploration near Brown Hill and Indian steps, ending with directions to a reservoir.

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But if anybody wants a personal copy of this map either now or later on, I'll sell them a copy for a dollar and a half.

But mostly you won't need a map on this tour.

What we'll be doing is traveling by car from point to point.

In other words, we will drive to a certain point and then we'll get out and we'll walk around and talk and we'll get in the car and go to another point.

And the pattern of the tour is going to be this in case you get lost or something or you know where to pick something.

We'll go from here or down the Lowell Hill Road across the bridge up where the whole town of Little York was.

Then we will return, come back up to Red Dog Road, what is today called Red Dog Road, come to the town of U Beth.

After going to the town of U Beth, we'll go out to Chalk Bluff Road part way to a point where you can see the diggings north and south and some of the other spots there.

And then we'll come back to Red Dog Road and go to the town of Red Dog Road and after that we'll be coming back here.

You're free at that point to do anything you want.

Chuck has invited anybody who wants to come and eat lunch beside the lake.

If you want to go back to one of the places we've been, that's fine.

I would just give this one warning that everywhere we go today, that a great deal of the land is private property.

Some of the government properties are not private and in most cases you won't be able to tell a difference unless they're fencing up.

Fencing is a pretty good sign of private property.

And so in some cases we may not go and examine things as closely as we might want to for that reason.

I'm not going to say anything more today unless there's a question that Jerry can't answer that I've got the information for and I don't know whether that will happen or not.

That was supposed to be my answer.

You're only lying.

And so I introduce to you Jerry Brady.

Don't worry about snakes, don't worry about snakes.

Well this is great, I've never seen so many people out in New Bet for 40 years.

This is going to be the first chapter in your book.

Boy it certainly will be.

But he stole my line.

Dave probably has forgotten now more about where a lot of things were than I don't know especially about Red Dog.

And because they didn't let us get very far from New Bet when I was a kid.

But just great being here and I'm ready to go.

You introduce Lydia, your beautiful wife.

This is my wife Lydia, she's been escaping me all morning so it's hard for me to introduce her.

She's my right hand.

Take off your hat and say hi.

Nobody's asked any questions to me yet.

That's enough questions, let's get going.

I just want to point out the number of cars around where we're going.

When we go along today.

That's the other one, that's the other one.

Right over here I think is the one he's talking about.

Some road.

Uh, step home.

You mean we've got our cable bodied shoveled hand man hand here?
Hopefully.

This is what's on right here.

Look at that.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

This part here.

Then we climb up through here.

Walk all the way up through that water.

Climb up into the walls there.

That water that you can come in that way.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Yes, yeah.

That's fine.

I'm sorry, yes.

Yeah, yeah.

I get a yak and a whore.

I get a yak and a whore.

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I get a yak and a whore.

I get a yak and a whore.

OK.

Keep going where intersection
top the hill.

Not like that.

You know the old Dutch flat.

The old road to Dutch flat.

Yes.

OK.

Now this area here is the first
place that gold is brought with
It's the first place that gold was mined in this part of the county, the earliest part.

It actually says it's digging that we tried to get to on the other side.

We're approached from Bear River and from the American Trail.

We're almost standing on the American Trail.

We came on through here.

A lot of people were in a rush to start gold mining in 49
and they started getting to Bear River this other side into Steve Paolo.

And they started mining Steve Paolo.

They started mining up the canyon that we call Wilcox Ravine now,
which as we go back across the bridge, it's on the right hand side.

So the man was, you saw the shipment down in the door?
Yeah, alright.

So they were mining up in early 52.

Also, when we came down off the Red Dog Road on the Lowell Hill Road,
as we came down there was a big canyon on your right, a bird's-eye canyon,
a place called Hankins Canyon and all kinds of other things.

But anyway, they started to find where it was.

It was somewhere in that area.

Again, that town disappeared.

They called it the Corn Hill Mining District.

So there was a little York Mining District.

There was a Steve Paolo Mining District, a Walupa District.

No, not a Walupa, Walupa was part of Corn Hill.

And there was a Chalk Gluff Mining District, all in 52.

And this is before hydrolicing started.

So we know that the Chalk Gluffs were at least partially visible
before the hydrolicing ever started, that they gave that name to it.

Oh yeah, that was the town.

That was the first, right?
52, the spring of 52.

I have a question.

I've heard that all of the gravel in Greenhorn is from the hydrolic mining
and I've also heard that it was that way before they started mining.

Oh, I don't know about that before they started, but it certainly is from the mining
because that's where all the, it had to go there.

It's just the natural.

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There was one of the big.

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Someone said that there was information that it was closed gravel before they even started.

It doesn't seem reasonable.

It is not reasonable.

There was some gravel in there.

Wasn't where the bridge crosses the Greenhorn on.

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Wasn't that a pretty steep, deep gorge or canyon before it was filled up by the gravel?
Oh, you've got to.

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The gravel's probably.

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I think that's the pan is bigger or something.

It's just a hundred feet, right?
Bob Lawton knows something about that.

You had lots of go-arounds with Hans and you learned a lot about that.

Yeah.

They're all pleasant things.

I don't know how deep it is, but it's pretty deep because it used to be.

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You could see trees sticking out of the gravel that would be this big around.

So it had to be fifty or seventy-five feet down from those trees where it was grown.

And most of the red dog digging went into Greenhorn Creek.

You guys just saw in that greenhorn water.

The first few bits went into.

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That's right.

There.

Oh, Steve Powell.

Right down the Cox Canyon.

If Chock Fluff didn't get.

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David!
What did he get out of the mud?
It was still chocolate.

Yeah, it was still chocolate.

Yeah, still chocolate.

That's right.

Yeah.

It was the first named district dog in here when they were just still working there to breed some dogs.

Mike, I'll talk just a little bit about the hydraulic and the farmhouses.

If we had a brawler, they'd go into a penstock and it goes fast.

In fact, as you go fluctuate in size, at no time were all of them heavily populated.

Yeah, you help the army work.

Sometimes one camp could be as many as six hundred feet.

Mostly, man, I would say.

Depend on the year.

Depend on the year.

Yeah.

When was it?
It was like Saturday nights or something.

Yeah.

About eighteen weeks.

Two weeks at all.

It was largely between 1860 and 62.

Probably about a month.

Numbers.

Now, see what happened later was that as these mining companies were formed,
they were taking out more gold, but they didn't need as many people to operate.

So these were big mining days.

Thompson and West estimates that between 1849 and 1880,
something like twenty million dollars worth of gold came out of New York Town.

And that was before most of the mining that Jerry talks about in his book.

So I don't know how much gold was taken out.

David, is there a way?
If you wanted anything done in court in those days,
the price of getting anything done was an ounce of gold to the judge.

Is there a place where we are on this map?
We're just in the lower right-hand corner.

It may be off the map.

That white part is mine.

The saloon, I would say now, I have to just go back to about 1910.

Now, this is 1910.

On Dave's map, it will probably show you previous sites and previous times on Dave's map.

But I have to go to 1910, and then, again, Cloudman, he's got a beautiful picture here.

People want to circle around here.

Then Cloudman and Fox General Store, and it's that box we write in here.

In this area right here, about the road light.

And the next thing up the line from that was the hotel.

It was just prior to 1910.

That was owned by Barney Cahill.

And then just up from that, then there was the hotel.

It was a building which became the UBET School, kind of a transition school,
which really sat right up on that knoll, top of the knoll.

After the initial school had burnt down in 1908, they moved there on top of the hill
before they moved down into the old Jack and Bill McCarthy home,
which was the last UBET school.

And that would be down the road of peace.

Dave's ICK was making some sites here.

Now, right down in the back here, right down the hill, I don't know if it's still there.

There was an old chest nest tree, and right next to that old chest nest tree
was the hole we could move over this way.

Right there, right there, one tunnel.

That time went on.

And then the hole was started.

The snow hole was right down here below the knoll,
where the Jack dig was home.

And then following it down the roadway,
where you have more Davis,
and you have the Barker home, and bottom lane, as your wine department.

Just below the ditch.

And the ditch came around, and was right underneath the roadway here.

It's about half of this plus here, and underneath the roadway,
and split right over here.

Point of it went out into the digging,
and the rest of it went on down to Wallupa,
and then turned down the hill, and then it goes down to Brown Hill.

This way.

So this is where you try to look at the.

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Were there more roads down below there?
Well, yeah, there were roads.

Okay, the Indian steps is you see Chuck Bluff Mountain there,
and you see the big, the wide piece of chalk.

Well, just above the chalky part above that,
is pretty close to the old wagon road,
that goes from Chuck Bluff to the Hustle Diggins.

And when I was a kid, I used to walk along there.

I don't know if it's any more,
but there's big holes back in there,
and up to about 1950,
that were all the scribed in there,
all the hussy kids, and the Brady kids, and everything.

And it had been there since about the 1880s, the 1890s.

I don't know if it's still.

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Whether or not it's gone now or not.

But up to that time, it was very.

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Who did this on?
Who did you call me?
It's the easiest step.

Oh, you mean that?
Yeah.

Just don't look at me.

Well, where did my dad at?
My dad put up this sign.

Yeah, it's a wire.

Now, look in the U.

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iggins here,
where the reservoir is,
and we'll pass the reservoir.

It's right over here by.

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Just take a beeline straight across there.