While a total of nine dredges scoured bedrock gold in the Blue River area, only five worked at one time, during 1917 and 1918. The powerful Tonopah Placers Company dominated area dredging at that time ...

Bill Fountain may be a little obsessed with mining history. He spends 25 hours a week, 52 weeks a year researching it. He says it’s “just a hobby,” but that’s hard to believe when he recounts the ...