Category: Sixes

1917 - Port Orford Harbor Surveying Pamphlet

Surveying A Great Opportunity

Cover of a multiple-fold two-color brochure from 1917 from the Port Orford Harbor and Development Corporation. The material was intended to promote stock offerings in the organization. Featured…

Modern Sixes Pacer Mine South Fork (front)

Sixes River Placer Mining

These three undated photographs show “placering” (a.k.a. “placer mining”) up the South Fork of Sixes River. These photos show “modern” placer mining known as hydraulicking which breaks up…