More on Hydraulic Mining - RDP #10 

This is a quick follow up to Episode 9 where we were prospecting on old Hydraulic Mining remnants in the Southern Motherlode of California. I thought it would be good to add some additional information
about what Hydraulic Mining is and why they were doing it in this place.
Hydraulic Mining came to an abrupt end in California due to a landmark Federal Court Decision decision in January 1884, in one of the most celebrated cases in US mining law,
Edwards Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Mining and Gravel Company. The District Court judge declared that hydraulic mining was a public and private nuisance,
and prevented all such activities on tributaries which fed into navigable rivers.
Historic footage courtsy of Empire Mines State Park. I do not own the copyright to this movie and this is being posted here under RU-vid's Guidelines for informational and teaching purposes.