GREAT GOLD DREDGE AT WORK.
The new high price of gold has stirred up the gold-dredging industry of California. The dredging process is necessarily extremely expensive, and is adaptable only to large-scale operations, the land being ploughed up over acres and acres.
The largest gold dredge in the world has already begun work. It will , handle 350,000 cubic yards of gravel, a month, and enough land will be acquired to enable it to operate for twenty years. It la easy to imagine the havoc such a monster would create in fertile and beautiful jjalleys.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 279, 22 August 1934, Page 4
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94GREAT GOLD DREDGE AT WORK. Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 279, 22 August 1934, Page 4
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