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Built by Bucyrus-Erie, the dredge was purchased by the Snake River Mining Company in 1939 and hauled to the Yankee Fork for assembly. The dredge recovered over $1,200,000 in gold and was shut down in 1952 after the claims owned by the company were dredged.
Gold Dredge, Klondike River, Canada, 1915 The Yankee Fork dredge near Bonanza City, Idaho, which operated into the 1950s. A gold dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel, and dirt using water and mechanical methods. The original gold dredges were large, multi-story machines built in the first half of the 1900s.
Land of the Yankee Fork State Park is a history-oriented public recreation area covering 521 acres (211 ha) in Custer County, Idaho, United States. The state park interprets Idaho's frontier mining history, including the ghost towns Bayhorse, Bonanza, and Custer. The interpretive center near Challis has a museum and gold panning station. [1]
Custer is a ghost town in Custer County, Idaho, United States.Established in 1877, it is at (44.3874133, -114.6959118), at an elevation of 6,470 feet (1,972 It lies along Yankee Fork Road southwest of the city of Challis, within the Challis National Forest.
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The Oklahoma panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its constituent counties are, from west to east, Cimarron County , Texas County and Beaver County .
Age pyramid for Creek County, Oklahoma, based on census 2000 data. As of the census of 2000, [ 11 ] there were 67,367 people, 25,289 households, and 19,017 families residing in the county. The population density was 70 inhabitants per square mile (27/km 2 ).
Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture - Chickasaw National Recreation Area "Bison (U.S. National Park Service)". The short film Oklahoma Oasis (1974) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Oklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory