Trench digger. Steam-powered Buckeye ditcher for digging trenches on N. Fir St; buildings behind are Hodson Auto Co. and Weeks & Baker Undertaking Parlor; stamped on front of photo: 'HODSON AUTO CO., Medford, Ore.' The Jacobsen & Bade Company brought a
Buckeye ditcher to Medford in May 1908. The machine dug trenches along the city streets where pipe was laid for a city-wide water system. By May 1909 the machine had dug 17 miles of trenches for sewer and water pipe. Medford (Or.)
Year or Date Range
ca. 1908
Location
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