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Jonathan Tibbetts' Grasshopper Quartz Mill
(6.3 miles) Walk 300 yards past sand mounds to the remains of a water pump.

Located in the "center of activity" was a high piece of ground known as "Chinamen's Knoll." Here Tibbetts operated a 5-stamp mill powered by a Pico Steam Engine. Heavy iron heads rose and fell rhythmically, pulverizing gold ore from the John Bull mines. The sand mound is old tailings.

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Jonathan Tibbetts' Grasshopper Quartz Mill (6.3 miles) Walk 300 yards past sand mounds to the remains of a water pump.

Jonathan Tibbetts' Grasshopper Quartz Mill
(6.3 miles) Walk 300 yards past sand mounds to the remains of a water pump.