round the turn of the 20th Century, The wheel itself was part of a larger apparatus used for processing ore found on Charlie’s claim on Ute Creek. Th

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round the turn of the 20th Century, The wheel itself was part of a larger apparatus used for processing ore found on Charlie’s claim on Ute Creek. This original apparatus boasted a 30 foot diameter waterwheel that was used to power a five-stamp mill that could crush the mined ore in order to extract the precious gold and silver.

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