the gold. beach dredge, built on dry creek, moved to osborn. creek, where

There, in 1924, she sunk and was out of service for three years. She slowly, but surely, dug her way upstream into what was then known as the Boyle concession, ground owned by Big Joe Boyle. When she started work in the spring of 1913, it took 300 men to keep the dredge operational from April till November.

The dredge, with huge 16-cubic-foot buckets, could dig down almost 50 feet to bedrock where millions of dollars in gold lay waiting to be dragged to the surface.

That's the only way to really describe her. Looking like a huge floating hotel, she was eight storeys high and two-thirds the length of a football field. She was built in the summer and winter of 1912, on claim number 112 below discovery on Bonanza Creek, by the Canadian Klondike Gold Mining company. 4 would have been called King of the Klondike. They didn't give personalized names to dredges as they did riverboats back in the old days. For almost 50 years, this magnificent structure helped turn the Klondike valley upside down and produced millions in gold for her owners. When she was built in 1912 on Bonanza Creek, she entered the record books as the largest dredge in the world.

The gold. beach dredge, built on dry creek, moved to osborn. creek, where