A bonus on this afternoon's trip to Dredge No. 4 was the sighting of a moose and her two calves in a pond adjacent to the dredge.After lunch today, along with two other couples, I went up to Discovery Mine, the 1st gold find that started the Gold Rush, then on to Dredge No. 4 National Historic Site. Dredge No. 4 is the largest wooden hulled, bucket line dredge in North America. For 60 years these huge machines dug up the ground of the Klondike region to extract gold. Dredge No. 4 ceased operating in 1960 when it sunk into the silt and mud of Bonanza Creek. During its operation, it mined over $1B of gold. Park Canada undertook a project in the early 1990's to recover and restore the dredge. The tour of the dredge took a little over an hour and was followed by a movie showing it in operation. See pictures attached to the email forwarding this blog.
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