Show dam workers turn up gold during off hours sacramento CALIF men employed in construction of the ruck A chucky debris dam on the american river near auburn have turned to gold mining in their spare time george pollock of sacramento contractor for the dam reported site of the dam is in the foothills of the sierra nevadas in the mother lode country made famous by Cali fornias gold strike of nearly a c century ago about 40 men are employed at the dam and some of them have made as high as a day in working high quality ore from a pocket opened by the pollock company in cutting a temporary roadway at th the e dam site the contractor said the men have not deserted their jobs he added but they merely turned to prospecting while it was too wet to work at the damsite for construction work |