Treadgold's land-going dredge on tracks, 1938 People; Businesses Inscription verso: John Charles Dines

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Hell's Gate is located 272 miles downriver from Whitehorse

View of a wall tent and other living equipment

Ollie Vance

Treadgold's land-going dredge on tracks, 1938 People; Businesses Inscription verso: John Charles DinesPhotograph of Treadgold's land going dredge on tracks. This machine was brought from Liverpool, England in 1915. It weighed 170 tons and advanced overland on rails spaced twenty feet apart. It was tried in the autumn of 1915, but was unsuccessful because it needed minor alterations it was never used again. Pierre Berton photographed it on Middle Dominion during the summer of 1938.