Show A RIVAL TO KLONDIKE just now when so much interest is centered in the important disclosures being made in the workings of the west mountain placers in bingham canyon the following from the bingham bulletin will be read with pleasure by those who are interested in this ground and the camp at large the bulletin says visiting west mountain placer last evening our reporter found work actively progressing on safety measures which in a short time will insure the works against spring freshets fresh ets and disasters of every kind kind the drift at bedrock from ri rim m to rim should be completed for present purposes pu reposes in a co couple uple of weeks it will be cut six tim timbers berg higher before the spring freshets fresh ets cutt cutting ing to be done from the east or safety shaft which is going down under contract and will be completed this month an additional safety measure will be tun X A 4 Z A ity K Z Z WEST MOUNTAIN PLACER BINGHAM SHOWING POWER HOUSE AND PUMPING STATION eling a distance up stream and crosscutting cross cutting at intervals to turn freshet water as nearly as possible into a common channel these precautions with adequate equipment of power and pumping facilities will prevent any possible water disaster in the future the company now appreciates the importance of having in place reinforcement machinery and t mhd d ample provisions to install it is a in most reassuring feature repairs for the valve chest of the big cornish pump will arrive tomorrow and when in place there will be two distinct sets of pumps with independent power which will render another flooding practically impossible work is to begin at once sinking the two lower inclines they will be provided with hoists for raising gravel and mall small pumps for handling dead water from these inclines the main product of the placer will come two cleanups have been made and another will be made tomorrow the product is a number of ounces of coarse shot gold containing tai nino nuggets from the size of wheat ke r nels to two pennyweights penny weights in weight the nuggets are arb gener generally dlly round and worn smooth gravel is now raised at the rate of ten to fifteen carloads daily it yields not more than 20 per cent of what is shown by b panning g averages being about 20 cents to the pan this is accounted for by the fact that the gravel is taken out of flowing 11 water that can not be fully arrested until the upper drift is completed old placer miners will doubt this statement of richness when told the bedrock tie drock on which the gravel rests is smooth as glass yet so it is the pumping works of the west mountain were wisely located by charley watson on a narrow gorge in fact at the narrowest patt part of the creek the bedrock here makes a quick fall and was cut down do n by ancient rapi rapids one hundred leet feet below where the working 11 inclines are is a broad basin in which the waters of the old river had a resting place if gravel five feet deep averaging 20 cents to the pan is found on a smooth rapids bed what will be found foun d in that basin even charley watson the most moat conservative serva tive miner that ever opened a bingham prospect gets excited when that question is asked his faith based on experience locates more gold on bedrock of bingham creek than has been found in klondike and this idea is shared by manager dan davs clays who washed two fortunes from along jimr rimrock ock of ou our creek in the early days |