summer work

Placer Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the opening of pits and cuts and the sluicing of gravel, that is, open-cast mining, beginning in June and ending in mid-September.

Quotations

1898

During the last season of "summer work" $1.50 an hour was the universal price of ordinary unskilled labour in this District.