![]() The Powder Dredging Company ceased dredging in August of 1954, $100,000 in debt. With the new system there was hope of recovering the gold missed by the first two dredges, however they did not recover as much gold as they had anticipated and with the expenses of running the operation increasing after the war they found they could not make enough to make ends meet as we were still on a gold standard and gold was still $35 an ounce. The Baker Dredging Company operated the dredge until 1950 when they decided to sell it to another mining company also with the name Powder Dredging Company. This time it was under a new owner, the Baker Dredging Company, and its gold recovery system was upgraded from the sluice boxes to a Jig System which increased the efficiency from 70% recovery to 95% recovery of the gold. On Jthe dredge was able to begin operating again. In 1942, the dredge was shut down as all non-essential mining operations were ordered to cease production for the duration of World War II. Christmas and the Fourth of July were the only observed holidays. when I took apart and dumped the fuel it was brown in color. when i bought it he said it did not run and it had the same fuel from the 80s in it. ![]() the guy i bought it from said he used it twice maybe than put it away. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year. I found one of these cool dredges with the frame and innertube.
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