Talk:Fresno scraper

The Ridge Route Museum in Frazier Park, California now has a Fresno Scraper on display. Frazier Park is about 40 miles south of Bakersfield, California, and three miles west of Interstate 5.

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Who invented it? I saw this, quote:

....Another important invention that greatly influenced the shape of agriculture in the Fresno area was the small earth-moving device invented in Selma, in 1872, by Abijah McCall and Frank Dusy. In June 1885, a patent was issued for this scraper and it was developed to its full potential by Fresno blacksmith, James Porteous. The Fresno scraper was used for digging the first canals in the valley and later, was used in land and railroad.... http://www.ahsgr.org/chapters/fresno/speech.html --71.133.254.31 (talk) 20:40, 13 March 2014 (UTC)Doug Bashford