It forced investors to purchase large blocks of adjoining claims or obtained concessions to large tracts of land so that they could import dredges and use them on these vast tracts of land. The dredges could efficiently process large volumes of gravel, and extract enough gold from the low value ground to make it pay. Despite the high cost of labor, this worked because the deposits were so rich, but as the rich ground was mined, the miners had to find more streamlined methods of recovery. The earliest mining was done by hand on individual claims, much more of the history we Californian’s are used to hearing. He always said that she could dig as much in a day as a hundred men could dig in a week, but he had never been quite sure that this was true.” – Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burtonįor a half a century, the gold dredges dominated the mining in the goldfields of the Yukon and Alaska. Mike Mulligan was very proud of Mary Anne. “Mike Mulligan had a steam shovel, a beautiful red steam shovel. The dredges hulking silhouette brings back memories of this story of a friendly steam shovel moving earth in giant mouthfuls. The first time I saw a Gold Dredge it reminded me of a book I used to read Matt when he was little – “Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel”. It is not just those natural wonders that make the journey so interesting, the great creations made by humans tell marvelous stories. The natural world is full of beautiful mountains, deserts, lakes, seas and animals that are different and seem to get more and more amazing. The wondrous things I see on my journey continually amaze me.
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