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Steve, enjoyed your article about this dredge in the October issue of the IMCJ Prospecting and Mining Journal. I hope to get to the Chicken area someday. When I was a young boy in the late 1940's I had the opportunity to see a similar dredge operating in Prickly Pear creek south of Helena, Mt near Clancy. The dredged area is now pretty much covered by I-15 and the dredge is gone after sitting by the highway for many years. The picture is from a website showing a number of historical pictures from the area south of Helena.

http://www.helenahistory.org/south_of_helena.htm

Also, at this site just past the dredge image is a newspaper article about the dredge.


jefferson_city_dredge.jpg

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Supposedly Tony Beets (Gold Rush TV show fame) is going to restore and start using an old dredge up on his claims this season. That should be a sight to see. Me thinks the shows producers ponied up some big bucks to make this happen. I don't see him investing his own money for this project, otherwise if it was that economical he'd probably have done it years ago.

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