Not long ago in the old Sumpter Valley, a mechanical beast the size of an apartment building spent its days plodding along the stream beds, eating the valley floor. As it dug itself ever deeper into ...

SUMPTER, Ore. — The beauty of traveling Oregon’s back roads and byways is the unexpected treasure that you may find along the way – not just the scenery, but interesting lessons about Oregon’s past.

The word “dredging” might not make your heart race, but it certainly helped speed the pace of mining in Arizona. From the 1900s through the 1930s, large-scale extraction of the placers on the Prescott ...

FAIRBANKS - The Fairbanks Exploration Co.’s Gold Dredge No. 8 at Fox (shown in the drawing) is perhaps the most visible and well-known dredge in the Fairbanks area, but the FE Co. actually operated ...

IN the construction industry, we often deal with new or unique situations. Because they are unusual or new, we tend to plan more intently to ensure the work goes safely. But repetitive work also needs ...