They moved it to Jack Wade Creek, considered by many to be the richest creek in the region (it is still being worked today). In 1914, it was shut down, and it remained idle until 1935 when it was purchased by the American Mining Company of Boston. In 1909, it was moved to Uhler Creek, where it was known as the Mulvane Dredge. It was first freighted up the Fortymile from Dawson City in 1907 by Russell KIng, and was put to work on Walker Fork at Twelvemile Creek. The trommel screen is 22 feet long, with 4 sections, and 2 flumes leading from the end of it. It had 32 buckets of 4½ cubic feet capacity, and a 150-horsepower boiler which powered 4 steam engines. This was a stacker type dredge with two flumes. One of the first bucketline dredges in the Fortymile Mining District, this dredge was also one of the last dredges to work in the district. Some major parts were set up as an interpretive display near the Chicken post office, but the majority of it went to the Tok garbage dump. Due to its deteriorating condition and safety concerns, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had it removed. Until September 2007 this gold dredge sat alongside the Taylor Highway between Dawson City, Yukon and Tok, Alaska.
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