Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . kmm. JIMMY GOES OVER THE MOUNTAIN 81 any progress. We had gone about seven miles when wespied a large placer dredge close to the river. To theuninitiated this dredge would look much like a dredgingsteamboat out of water, but digging its own channel,which is what it really does. Great beds of gravel lay on either side of the river andplacer gold in large or small quantities, but usually thelatter is likely to exist in these beds. When a dr
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . kmm. JIMMY GOES OVER THE MOUNTAIN 81 any progress. We had gone about seven miles when wespied a large placer dredge close to the river. To theuninitiated this dredge would look much like a dredgingsteamboat out of water, but digging its own channel,which is what it really does. Great beds of gravel lay on either side of the river andplacer gold in large or small quantities, but usually thelatter is likely to exist in these beds. When a dredgelike the one found here is to be installed, an opening ismade in the rivers bank leading to an excavation whichhas been made, then a large flatboat is floated in dredging machinery is on this float, as well as most ofthe machinery through which the gravel is passed ac-companied by a stream of water; then with quicksilverand rockers of various designs, the gold is separated fromthe gravel and sand. Numerous small buildings were standing near thedredge, but the buildings were empty, and the dredgelay idle. We saw many fresh tracks of men and hor
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