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The Paymaster Goldmine in Eastman Gulch, northeast of Lewiston, was located by Billy Richards, Bob Hamilton and Gene Goodyear in 1901. The original mill was built about 1904. The machinery was dismantled, restored and re-erected in this similar mill building in 1984 by the Trinity County Historical Society. The mill is steam and is fully operable. It is used to crush gold bearing ore, freeing the gold from the rock, to be recovered by amalgamation with quicksilver.
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