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Show 930 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 side 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? " 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 has been eroding in the sides - this is in a place where the river was slow, a sidling basin - put the dredge in there-" R. 2201- 2202. The material for building the dredge was taken on to the Colorado River over a trail which was constructed by blasting through the sand rock and it came down just above Bull Frog rapids to the upper edge of the bar. " Q How much was there to this dredge, what did it consist of? " A It consisted of the buckets - consisted of the hull, the buckets, the big centrifugal pump, 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 |