Treadgold's land-going dredge on tracks, 1938 People; Businesses Blurred photograph of a dog

Blurred photograph of a dog and cat

Inscription verso: John Charles Dines 3 mon

Caption: White Pass

Hell's Gate is located 272 miles downriver from Whitehorse

Photograph of four women standing with two bicycles in front of the school

Treadgold's land-going dredge on tracks, 1938 People; Businesses Blurred photograph of a dogPhotograph of Treadgold's land going dredge on tracks. This machine was brought from Liverpool, England in 1915. It weighed 170 tons and advanced overland on rails spaced twenty feet apart. It was tried in the autumn of 1915, but was unsuccessful because it needed minor alterations it was never used again. Pierre Berton photographed it on Middle Dominion during the summer of 1938.