00:03To keep on track for his 3,000-ounce goal, Tony must take a gamble on the other piece of
00:09ground ready to sluice.
00:11We have, I think, a fair amount of pay left in Monica's cut.
00:16The strip is ready to go, so why not give it a shot?
00:19The plant is still set up, everything is still there.
00:22Pretty much turn the key and let's sluice some more of that material coming out of there.
00:30You've been thinking about this spot for 30 years? Why don't I come here?
00:35Last season, Monica Beetz opened up a cut on Hunker Creek.
00:39Old-time dredges produced a million dollars a day here, and she believed they missed this spot.
00:45Mike, what just happened?
00:47But hit Roadblock?
00:48Those are just exploded.
00:50After Roadblock.
00:54Holy .
00:55Are you serious?
00:57Should have named it the Cursed Cut, not the Hunker Cut.
01:00And was eventually frozen out with under 400 ounces to show, earning it the name of the Cursed Cut.
01:08See you next spring.
01:21.
01:25Uh-oh.
01:27No what?
01:28All the water's going through your cut.
01:32It's a mess.
01:40We must have a jam of sticks and crap over there, and that just **** brought the water up enough
01:45to cut through.
01:47Trees washed down by winter storms have dammed Hunker Creek, diverting it right into Monica's Cut, submerging the gold-rich
01:55pay dirt under two and a half million gallons of water.
02:01Now, the original creek bed is bone dry.
02:05There's the one with all the roots, and then there's the bigger one.
02:07So, I mean, that must have blocked the water off, brought it right up, popped it out over there.
02:13Anyway, no matter what, no use **** at it.
02:16We'll dig the **** out.
02:19How?
02:20You know any local beavers?
02:22No.
02:22Tony has no option but to try and redirect the whole creek and drain the flood water.
02:29You know what?
02:29If we get enough gold out of it, that'd be watered.
