Gold Pan ditch under construction. Men use shovels and a horse-drawn dirt scraper to dig the four foot deep trench from May to November, 1900. The ditch ran north collecting water from the Blue River and Pennsylvania and Indiana Creeks and was used for the Gold Pan Mining Company hydraulic operations south of Breckenridge, Colorado. Stands of dead trees cover the dirt hillside.

Placer mining in Summit County, Colorado. Men use pickaxes and a sluice box to prospect for gold in a placer deposit or gulch. Water from the pond above is diverted into a long, sloping wooden trough with grooves on the bottom to separate gold from the extracted rocks, gravel and sand. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "Gulch mining".

Company manager George H. Evans (left) and shops superintendent Robert "Bob" Gore (right) stand beside the water diversion headgate run by the Gold Pan Mining Company, south of Breckenridge, Colorado. An unidentified man stands on top of the wooden frame. The nearly four mile long Gold Pan Ditch and connecting pipeline brought water from Indiana Gulch, Pennsylvania Gulch, and the Blue River, to operate the Evans hydraulic elevator system. Circa 1900s.

Four men sit along the edge of a water ditch run by the Gold Pan Mining Company, south of Breckenridge, Colorado. Probably a section of the Gold Pan Ditch, a four mile long flume and connecting pipeline that brought water from Indiana Gulch, Pennsylvania Gulch, and the Blue River, to operate the Evans hydraulic elevator system. Several square cut logs bridge the water. The man on the far right may be shops superintendent Robert "Bob" Gore. Circa early 1900s.

Two men stand near the water diversion headgate for placer mining operations run by the Gold Pan Mining Company, south of Breckenridge, Colorado. The nearly four mile long Gold Pan Ditch and connecting pipeline brought water from Indiana Gulch, Pennsylvania Gulch, and the Blue River, to operate the Evans hydraulic elevator system. A stand of dead trees in the background, with Barney Ford Hill in view. Circa 1900s.

The Great Flume going around the hill opposite Mount Guyot (in background), northeast of Breckenridge, Colorado in autumn of 1895. In the snow, a man stands next to the waist-high wooden flume while a dog sits on top. Title quoted from handwritten caption on card mount: "View on Farncom [sic] hill."