| Show N NEW W PLACER METHODS 1 t West Vest Mountain Big Work at Bingham SOON BEGIN SLUICING NEW SCHEME FOR FOB CONTROLLING WATER ray May Build a Flume Plume to Convey the Surface Plow Flow Around the Com Corn Ground Taking aking Gravel chavel Prom From Bedrock Feet Peet Below the Surface It was learned at the offices of the West Veit eat Mountain Placer company yes yesterday yesterday yesterday that a station at the thi bottom of Incline shaft No 1 was being cut and the week closes close drifting into the gravel channel will begin and anti if all goes w weil II sluicing will wilt commence by bythe bythe bythe the beginning of next week The amount of water at the bottom of ot the incline is gradually on the decrease a condition which has been particularly noticeable during the past two or three days Some of the directors of the company are ar advocating a new scheme tor fot controlling or assisting a in the con control control control of the water which naturally Its Hs way to bedrock from the which flows dOwn the canyon They The are advocating the placing of A a dam darn damin damIn in th gulch above the line Une of the pump and the laying of a flume to carry carryall carryall all nil the surface water to a point below the tho ground This scheme they the believe would materially decrease the tho amount to be handled at it the pump station and und at the same time prevent Dreve the percolation which naturally goes goeson goeson goeson on in tho channel below But whether hether this is undertaken or not as s fast as the three Inclines below the pump can be opened drifts from one to tho the other will wm be run and from in incline Incline cline dine No S 3 connection will be made with the drain tunnel which has been run un In 10 a distance of feet on the ex extreme extreme tre eastern or lower end of the ground when whon perfect drainage will be b afforded for the entire property At the upp upper r end of the property where the pump shaft Is located the channel IB is only something like Uke eighty fp feet t wide from rim to rim but below the ground opens out into the main canyon canon prospecting shows it to tobe bp be in the neighborhood of ZOO 00 and in Inome Porno pome places 50 feet wide with an av ar average 1 crage ra e vertical depth to bedrock of probably to feet The work of connecting all the open openings openIngs ings by drifts at bedrock will of course require lots of time as they are some 1400 feet teet apart but in the meantime it itis itIs is 19 that the main flow of hi wa va water vater ter can be 00 held in perfect control at atthe atthe atthe the pump station and the gravel mined in running the drifts is expected to the money to keep the work going Should the water in tile tle gravel below the pump Shaft drain oft off on its own account or with the aid of the thc th surface system suggested by some of the board the mining of the tho gravel graw l can be undertaken within a aery avery very ery Pl short time and the mine should then be bl capable of paying substantial dividends The unique conditions under which placer mining is being carried on at this property is not generally under understood understood understood stood Unlike the usual methods fol followed followed lowed in placer mining where banks are Ire washed out from the surface to bedrock a new system i II Ic here bere in vogue The West Went Mountain channel is filled with ith from to feet of barren earth clay boulders and debris of one character or another and it is Ig only in inthe Inthe Inthe the last six to ten feet of gravel lying on In bedrock that values are obtained To avoid handling such vast quantities quantities ties of worthless worthies material the shaft and incline system has bas been adopted The Th inclines follow down the sides of o othe the rimrock to the bottom of the chan nd iteI nt where the values are a located and with the water under control it is be beli believed li lived ed that much more rapid and profit profitable profitable profitable able work can be done than if the usual hydraulic methods were em employed employed As Ap A the water problem pro em is now no non on n the point of or solution practical re putts cults should soon follow |
