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Trickle family

Jim Trickle

Jim Trickle was a miner who worked the Ocean View, Lilac, and Blackberry claims on Plaskett Ridge alongside Billy Cruikshank and John Bushnell.

According to Mabel Plaskett’s account, Cruikshank, Trickle, and Bushnell were “able, honest hardworking men who knew every phase of mining as that had been their life work.”

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Pacific Valley Gold Claims Still Producing

A dozen mining claims on Plaskett Ridge — including the arrastra her husband's grandfather built — and the gold still waiting in the family's hills.

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