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Show 4181 McDonald- D 2201 Q Mr. McDonald, did you have anything to do with building Stanton's dredge? A Yes. Q Can you tell me about what year that was? A ' 99; it may have been a year later. If I was up home, I could tell from the letters I got from the court after the dredge was sold. Q How, tell me, Mr. McDonald, about the building of that dredge, what kind of dredge it was, and what equipment you had with it, and where you got it. A Most of the lumber was brought from the Pacific coast. Q What I want to know is, how you got it down on the Colorado river. A Had to haul it with teams. Q From where? A From Blake, Utah,-- from Greenriver, Utah, we will say, across the desert, and it was slow, hard work up through the mountains of the Henrys, down on the west wide of the henrys, and on down through that country, sand, by gracious, knee deep, before they got it in there finally; and after they got the dredge built, got it to working, it was an eighty- two bucket dredge, worked sixty yards of gravel an hour; we could dig in twenty- eight feet of water. Q What do you mean, dig in twenty- eight feet of water? |
