A high grader is a guy who takes the high grade gold out of the mines and there used to be a quite a- quite a business.

Speaker: Ah, there was a lot of high grading going on. Interviewer 1: A lot of- Speaker: Hi-- Interviewer 1: High-grading, that's stealing gold. Speaker: Stealing. Interviewer 1: Is that right? Speaker: Stealing. Yes.

Speaker: Well the guy that take the high grade ore, they find it, shove it in there and then when they brought it up to surface, they'd just take it- "Oh yeah, jeez thanks a lot Bob." They take it and they go to a room, wash it out and take the high grade. Interviewer: Oh so they must have had a lot of (inc). Speaker: Oh yeah. Oh. God. Well the- Interviewer: It's called high grading? Speaker: That's high grading. That's what they call high grading. It's taking the choicest of ore- like most of your rock today is- is ah what they call gunshot it's- you can hard- just specks of gold throughout it.

Yeah. Yeah and then it went on after the bar closed I guess it was you-know delegated to whoever was buying it or-whatever, yeah. Oh yeah, used to be a standard routine. There was a lot of high grading going on in Kirkland. Used to be bad. but it got so bad that the Kerr-Addison- that the guys had to strip right down- they were examined right in the...