. Pearls and pearling . he rope has been used for awhile it will not give muchtrouble by twisting. The length of the rope needed willdepend upon the depth of water. At Florence, Illinois,the ropes used are generally about sixty-five feet long. Atsome places more rope is required, while at other placesless will do. There should be enough to reach the bot-tom of the river, letting the dredge drag back of theboat a sufficient distance to make sure that all the hooksare scratching the bottom of the river, and, in addition,there should be about twenty-five feet left in the is needed to an
. Pearls and pearling . he rope has been used for awhile it will not give muchtrouble by twisting. The length of the rope needed willdepend upon the depth of water. At Florence, Illinois,the ropes used are generally about sixty-five feet long. Atsome places more rope is required, while at other placesless will do. There should be enough to reach the bot-tom of the river, letting the dredge drag back of theboat a sufficient distance to make sure that all the hooksare scratching the bottom of the river, and, in addition,there should be about twenty-five feet left in the is needed to anchor the dredge, while at least tenfeet more is needed to reach back to the dredge, whichrests on the standards, and there should also be an al-lowance made for the shrinkage of a new rope. The river may raise some and more rope will be re-quired on that account. Some pearl hunters like to drag both bars at once onsome occasions-, which, of course, requires more rope. The bars are usually twelve to sixteen feet long and. How to Make a Crow-foot Dredge Outfit. 117 are about five-eighths to one inch in diameter. A strongwooden peg is driven into each end of the bar, and awire is fastened to it and run along the bar several feet,where it is joined to the bridle rope at the place where itis tied to the bar. The bridle rope is fastened so that itis rather loose, and the hauling rope is tied to it in thecenter in such a manner as will keep it from slipping to-ward either end of the bar. The hauling rope is also tiedto the middle of the bar. The lines used to hold the hooks are strong, twistedcotton, known as marlin. The kind which is best adaptedto the use is number 120 marlin. Number 96 will do, butit is not quite large enough to wear well. The number120 is sometimes sold in two styles. One is a hardtwisted cord and the other is softer and seems hard twisted cords do not last well as they soon be-come cut out on the sharp gravel. The softer cord wearsmuch better. The line
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