Davis water wheel

[perhaps after a Cornish miner named Davis, who worked one of the early claims in the Cariboo goldfield]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Hist.

a large wheel (about 20 feet in diameter) having buckets on the rim and used in placer mining to operate a pump to keep the workings dry.

Quotations

1960

[Caption] Davis, or Cornish water wheel and flume [used in] hydraulic operations at Morning Star Claim.