The Old Grey Goose	Digging Bucket	Tailings Left By Dredging

The dredge shut down once each week for cleanup and repair. The last 2 weeks the dredge operated, 1949, $10,000 worth of gold was recovered. This was not enough to justify continued dredging. The recovered gold was melted down, and a hole was drilled in the bar to determine the amount of gold and other alloys it contained. The melted bars taken in the area where the Grey Goose worked contained copper, silver, and platinum.

The digging ladder weighs about 150 tons and it has 100 digging buckets going around it at a rate of about 24 buckets a minute. Each bucket held 12 cubic feet of earth.

Bill Keeler worked on dredges, and he tells of the beginning and the end of "The Old Grey Goose."

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