Yuba Goldfields Dredge No. 17

Yuba Goldfields Dredge No. 17
Marysville, California (CA), US
Operated from 1917 to 1967, dredging rock from the Yuba River and separating the gold. There were up to a dozen of these monsters operating at one time. This is the last one still in the area. Still floating, too! Unfortunately it's on private property so this is the best view most people will get.
Operated from 1917 to 1967, dredging rock from the Yuba River and separating the gold. There were up to a dozen of these monsters operating at one time. This is the last one still in the area. Still floating, too! Unfortunately it's on private property so this is the best view most people will get.
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By: jef

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kjfitz
@ 2005-09-19 18:03:16
Pictures of the dredge at:

http://www.eastproject.org/Portal/ProjectsDetail04.asp?NCESSchoolCode=062409003630
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kjfitz
@ 2005-09-19 18:07:01
According to this article the dredge mysteriously sank on Jan 27 2003.

http://49ermike.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=set_linear_mode&forum=181&page=&topic_id=30644&prev_page=show_topic

and another picture:

http://www.49ermike.com/dc/user_files/1564.jpg
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jef
@ 2005-09-20 11:30:45
I saw that article about the sinking, but I think that was a different dredge. It sounded like that one was still in operation, while this one has been idle since 1967.
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kjfitz
@ 2005-09-20 11:59:53
You're right. It was No. 21 that sunk, not No. 17.
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Anonymous
@ 2008-11-27 11:51:38
The mapped ship has now disappeared so it must have been number 21.

I think number 17 is now a little bit to the west

39.19955227927526, -121.44983410835266
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jim1944
@ 2015-09-27 12:14:54
As a boy my father took me fishing in the ponds of water created by the dredger. Huge hills of rock bigger than a large potato were everywhere.
In the late evenings the dredger was lite up and you could hear the dredger digging and creaking loudly, it looked and sounded like a monster.
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Anonymous
@ 2018-01-24 12:31:55
I see two dredges still in the fields.
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Anonymous
@ 2020-11-06 16:40:45
It's still there. Western Aggregate purchased it and is actively using it.

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