Show A BIG GOLD PLACER proposition S V clevenger of blackfoot idaho general manager of the gold point exploration extraction company owing valuable gold placer deposits twelve miles southwest of that place was in salt lake last week and while here placed an order with the salt lake hardware company for a 40 horse power gasoline engine the company own acres of auriferous gravel in the locality named and this according to exhaustive tests made to a depth of twenty six feet averages a dollar to the cubic yard in its gold content to handle this s gold bearing gravel experiments have been most successfully prosecuted the result being that a plant is now being installed for the handling of 2500 cubic yards daily experiments have shown that cacti cally all of the gold can be saved the method employed being sluice boxes lined with burlap the total operating expenses being in the neighborhood of twenty cents a yard the water for the diggings is pumped from snake river and when the plant Is in full commission it is expected that the returns will be most satisfactory the company is incorporated at in shares of each shares of which were placed on the market this stock has been selling at par and every dollar so secured has been expended in the development and equipment of the com banys holdings mr clevenger feel very enthusiastic over this enterprise and is of the opinion that it will eventually make a big dividend payer |