Paul Sorrells

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The debris eventually made its way into San Francisco Bay, smothering oyster beds and harming fisheries. Not until 1884 did the courts ban the dumping of hydraulic mining wastes in the rivers.
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)
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