Show GOLD DIGGERS HAVE interesting proposition L W arbuckle at the head of a california syndicate mining company with seven men all stockholders in the some same claim is breaking a road ovet avei the elk ridge to get a truck and supplies out to a sand bar in the Cu colorado lorado river about eight miles below halls crossing in three previous trips they have already taken in to the property considerable sid erable equipment and are now taking in six hundred feet of eight inch pipe and a leroi motor also algo a krough tailings pump capable of handling tons of dirt per day pumping 1000 gallons of water per minute through a foot sluice box according to the samples that have leon been taken numerous tiniest times they report that one dolar per yard of this sand is a n very conservative estimate gold and silver and platinum are found throughout the bar this island is estimated to contain enough deposited metal bearing sand to last twenty years at steady working of it this property is located in glen canyon and is the old dr W H claim dr refused to sell this property while he be lived iut after his death it was sold to this syndicate it contains approximately three million yards of workable sand and this company owns owne another claim across the river they have been experimenting and sampling foi the past eighteen months and have made four trips info the canyon prior to the present one two by way of richfield through capital wash taking in sixty five hundred pound of equipment liy by teams and dagons and floating it down the river ri vcr from ralls halls crossing two other trips by b pack outfits by capital wash and mexican hat and johns canyon abrou around rid grand gulch be below low the hears bears ears E ars and on over clay hills on one of these trips they forded corded tho the river at copper canyon with mules and later put in a cable and cuge cage with ono one ton capacity |