A look inside a historic gold dredge near Marysville Call it a history lesson paved in gold. A Yuba City man, 94, sent a letter to CBS Sacramento inviting us to tour something that played a big ...

The old dredge, installed in 1954, could pull out about 200 tons of material in a week. The new one can vacuum up 8,000 tons in a week and operates with electric power instead of diesel fuel.

The Yaquina is a 200-foot dredge vessel that visits Morro Bay annually. “200 feet by 58 and then when the arms are out, it goes out to 70 feet,” said Kamuela Johnson, Army Corps of Engineers ...