Remains of Dredges 1930's............

Dredge on Cassilis Road
http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/4340

Here are a few more pictures of the 1930's era. These of the dredges, of which there are few remains other than in the creek formation, that worked where and when there was water. The land formation differences can be seen on the Cassilis road where the dredge once worked.

In the past there was a man who came with a bobcat and worked that area again during different times of the year. Why did he stop? I assume that there was too little water, or maybe there was nothing to be found. The latter would appear the reason for stopping any work on that creek bed?

The area round Cassilis has been gone over by experts and tyros with machinery and metal detectors that sought some kind of wealth driven by hope, hampered by curse and cause. There is no one who has come out of these searches with anything that made the time and effort worth while. Cassilis is the reef upon which many dreams lay broken.

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Dredge on Cassilis Road
http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/4341

There is a picture of a dredge that worked at Tongio West - maybe the same dredge after all. Trying new ground with the same result?

Dredge or remains thereof at Tongio West
http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/4339