Re: Dillon / Keystone Operations Revisited -- Dillon Dredge.

Posted by Jim Courtney on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Freight-trains-at-Dillon-or-Keystone-tp1868p6605.html

This looks a lot like the "Dillon Dredge" that I posted above:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/32023/rec/8



The DPL caption says:
View of the Blue River Placer Mining Company (or Continental Mining Company) bucket-line dredging boat, in Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado. Date is 1917-1938?


There is also this view of a dredge on the Blue a couple of miles north of Breckenridge:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15330coll22/id/32025/rec/1



The DPL caption:
Summary  View of a Tonopah Placer Company bucket-line hydraulic gold dredge in the Blue River, at Breckenridge, Summit County, Colorado. "Two-Mile Bridge" is to one side; placer mine tailings are against hills, men and a parked car are in the foreground.  
Date  July 28, 1918  

This dredge looks to be bigger than the "Dillon Dredge" but smaller/not the same as the "Tiger Dredge" that ended up near the Breckenridge depot.

So, it looks like dredges didn't make to the north of Dillon. Still, fascinating stuff, worthy of its own thread.