The Pedro Dredge was built by the Yuba Manufacturing Company in California and was shipped to Pedro Creek north of Fairbanks in 1938. It was assembled there, and operated until 1958. The following year it was disassembled, trucked over the Alaska and Taylor Highway to Chicken and reassembled over a 3 month span. The dredge commenced operations on lower Chicken Creek in September of 1959 and worked approximately five months every year thereafter until October 1967.