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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1981_0004.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1981_0009.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1981_0007.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1981_0010.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1981_0011.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1981_0013.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1981_0014.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
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  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1983_0008.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1983_0009.jpg
  • Canadian driller and mining company owner Bud Henning and his crew are working 10-hour days to dismantle the Tuolumne gold mining dredge.   Henning says he plans to take the dredge apart piece by piece and reassemble it 1,700 miles away in British Columbia gold fields. He said he thinks the dredge will produce $250,000 to $500,000 of gold per day when it starts operating.  Bud Henning is spending millions of dollars before turning up the first ounce of gold from the 12,000 acres he’s leased in the Caribou mountain area a hundred miles north of Prince George.  The Tuolumne gold dredge is one of several Henning says he will put to work.  The La Grange dredge alone is capable of unearthing 14,000 cubic yards for 24 hours to produce gold worth $250,000 to $500,000 a day. Henning said. He bought the dredge for some $50,000   He calls the British Columbia site “the largest placer dredging grounds in the world” with an estimated $6! billion gold in the ground. <br />
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I first saw the Tuolumne gold dredge in 1966, at that time there were several community groups trying to save the dredge and make it a historical park and monument.  After those issues failed a man named Bud Hennings took the dredge apart.  I will post images of that endeavor.  Tuolumne gold dredge started up operations on June 15, 1938.  A Walter Johnson Dredge No. 52 model, it floated on a self-created pond of water.  The dredge weighed over 2500 tons and cost $543,148 to construct.  The dredge used electricity to drive the bucket-line of 120 4000 pound. buckets 70 ft. deep to recover gold.  It ceased operation in July 1951.  The total amount of gold recovered is unknown.  La Grange Gold Mines, Inc., was incorporated in 1933. In 1935, the name was changed to Tuolumne Gold Dredging Company. The gold dredge was built in 1937 for $600,000.  The scheme was to leave the flowing Tuolumne riverbed to search for gold left in channels the river had abandoned.  To do this, the dredge had to move its own pond with it,
    T Dredge 1983_0010.jpg
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