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Anchoring the Dredge

Sumpter, Oregon
· The Biggest Spud You Ever Saw
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The tailings appear in neat straight lines because the dredge was kept moving forward in a line instead of wandering over the landscape by an "anchor" at its back end: a forty-two-ton steel I-beam called a spud.
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