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Show 4182 McDonald- D 2202 A We were working in the river, see? We were working in the river, the gravel in the river; we were going on the assumption that nature for maybe thousands of years has been enriching the basin -- same as with the sluice boxes,-- when we shovel gravel in, only nature in her crude way had been eroding in the sides -- this is in a place where the river was slow, a sidling basin -- put the dredge in there-- Q Before you got into that -- at what point did this material for the dredge enter the Colorado river? A It entered the Colorado river where we built a trail, we blasted the trail out. The road is there in the sand rock today -- blasted it out through the sand rock, came down just above Bull Frog rapids to the bar, just at the upper edge. A It consisted of the buckets -- consisted of the hull, the buckets, the big centrifugal pumps, five engines, three on the starboard, three on the port side, eighty- two tables for saving the gold, the amalgamator, the settling tank and the amalgamator, and the plates to run the amalgam over to gather the gold. We had an ice plant on shore. Q What on shore? A An ice plant. |