![]() ![]() The dredge coughed to life and continued processing gravel for the next four decades.Īl Hendricks, Jr. moved into a log cabin near the new dredge - in what is now the heart of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Alvin, his wife Mildred, and their son Alvin, Jr. Patty hired a Seattle man named Alvin Hendricks, who was already in Alaska working on a different gold dredge about seventy-five miles to the south of Coal Creek. Once the dredge was in place, company manager Ernest Patty needed a skilled winchman to work the machine's elaborate system of winches, bucket lines, and conveyor belts. It was designed to eat 3,000 cubic yards of gravel from the drainage each day, leaving behind mounds of discarded rock. The dredge had traveled north from San Francisco by steamboat, rail, and barge before it was reassembled at Coal Creek. had recently imported an enormous dredge to extract gold on an industrial scale from a Yukon River tributary called Coal Creek. Ernest Patty on the first day of operation of Coal Creek dredge and the bucket line started to revolve and bite into the gravel. Its two diesel engines began coughing the winchman moved the dredge out. Al Hendricks in the wheelhouse of the new Coal Creek dredge, ca. ![]()
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