1851 31 Dec. The miners..allowed to each man thirty feet square, the usual extent of placer claims in that County.
1904 July 830/1 They had planned to work a ‘placer claim’.
2001 (Nexis) 29 Apr. t9 Steve Draper, proprietor of Caribou Corner, an RV park, and the Golden Caribou Mining Club, a business that owns a number of placer claims along the river.