{"id":379,"date":"2024-06-07T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2024-06-08T10:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T14:02:32","slug":"dredge-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Dredge Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3556-1024x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3556-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3556-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3556-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3556-1536x949.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3556.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This afternoon\u2019s excursion took us on an abandoned gold dredge tour. The pic doesn\u2019t begin to show just how massive this old beast is. It\u2019s the largest dredge of its kind in North America, built for the Canadian Klondike Mining Company. Number 4 was in continuous operation except for most winters and a few brief times for major maintenance, from 1913 until 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standing at 60 feet and set on a wood barge, #4 was built on land, then floated by water from ditches dug from nearby streams to the site. The whole rig was set in motion by large electric motors, and powered by hydroelectric dams up to 30 miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our park service guide noted that the dredge was so noisy, with 18,000 cubic yards of rocks tumbling through it in a day, that workers inside were left nearly stone deaf. It could be heard up to 10 miles away. It also razed the land, leaving long piles of rocks in its wake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"945\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3561-1024x945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3561-1024x945.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3561-300x277.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3561-768x709.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3561-1536x1418.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3561.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada Parks welcome sign at George Carmack\u2019s (remember George?) Discovery Claim, that ignited the gold rush. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"813\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3562-813x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3562-813x1024.jpg 813w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3562-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3562-768x967.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3562-1220x1536.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/cejavu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/img_3562.jpg 1588w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This stream is a short walk from the welcome sign. So this pristine stream is where it all began? And it\u2019s been preserved? Amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing that the dredge miners had been all over every obvious place that might be hiding the yellow stuff, I asked a guide why hadn\u2019t the stream where it started been dredged? Oh, <em>that<\/em> stream <em>was<\/em> dredged. This stream is on the claim <em>site<\/em> but not <em>the<\/em> stream where Carmack and company found gold. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon\u2019s excursion took us on an abandoned gold dredge tour. The pic doesn\u2019t begin to show just how massive this old beast is. It\u2019s the largest dredge of its kind in North America, built for the Canadian Klondike Mining Company. Number 4 was in continuous operation except for most winters and a few brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-alaska-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cejavu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}