History:-
Sixty-mile Dredge was borne from the collaborative efforts of several good men from both sides of the border.
Built in 1936 by Washington Iron Works in Seattle, Washington, the dredge was put to work in the river beds of Burnt River, Oregon.
In 1939 the Idaho-Canadian Dredging Company bought the dredge and property up in the Sixty-mile area and decided to make a prosperous move.
By 1941, the dredge was dismantled and began its sea and land journey to its new home.
The dredge had to endure a barge up through the Inside Passage to Skagway where it was then loaded onto flatbed cars on the White Pass & Yukon Route trainline and taken to Whitehorse.
From there it was once again barged to Dawson City.
CAT trains then railed it the remaining 105 kilometres to its company's placer claim on Big Gold Creek.
There it toiled laboriously (even after being sold to Yukon Explorations in 1947) until its timely demise in 1959.
Retired Yukon placer miner on Sixty-mile, Jimmy Lynch, managed to maintain the dredge in fine condition until he sold it to Ron Holway in 1977.
From then it's been a 22 year journey to where it stands now. We're so pleased our beloved Sixty-mile has found its way home to rest.
