Show I J TIlE PRAIRIE BASIN PLACRES r Salt Lakers Preparing to Work These Diggings on a Large Scale WORKING THE MAYDAY y < Magnificent Showing Made i the Humbug Mine of jr Tintic MER CUR IN THREE YEARS v ExGovernor Nance Believes Tin tic to Be the Leading Camp Blugrhum Bnlletin Jottings Efforts Made Sty GoIdbugM to Crash Opposition fl Op-position Jtercur aiercury Xotes Working the Mnytlny Magnificent Magnifi-cent Shovinpr Tiltule by the Humbug Hum-bug 3Iinc Mercur Correspondence I The HnrdHcrubhlc Mines The Stock Eachaa Brc Back From the Golden Star The 1C C Con S and t It 0 Leases a Mexico Smelter f Improvement In the BulllonBccic I Pearson and Watson Leave For r Idaho The Constellation The MiJiRo to Close Down On the Mother Ixxle Ore and Bullion i Silver and Lead Mining Notes and Personals L From this time on Prairie Basin in yLemhi county Idaho promises to mama mam-a reputation a a greait gold producer and to prominent Salt Lakers will be given fine credit of organizing a movement i move-ment thai will result in the recovery F of millions in the yellow metal from the rich placer diggings of that locality L cality g Prairie Basin has long been viewed t with envious e e by the mining mem o the west but the methods employed c In saving its wealth of gold have so fa C been proven futile and it has been r i demonstrated that in order to work tie ground at a profit operations must bee L be-e on on a large scale and now it Is believed that the problem for the successful manipulation of the diggings has been solved and that a few months more will prove the correctness of this j belief For the last year John Beck C W Stayner and other Salt Lakers have I been engaged in acquiring placer prop I I erodes lathe Prairie Basin country and I they have succeeded in corralling 1100 I ace af the best ground in that region j besides all the water in thir e streams ITo ITo I-To work this ground it is proposed j I to adopt the methods now in success i fut operaitiun at one place on the Snake I river which consist of a large boat cnsst larg bt which by means of large sue on I raises the gravel to the I pumps pay gavel te deck where it is treated in the ordinary I way with quizzlles and sluice boxes Already Messrs Beck and Stayner have shipped the maine necessary for this plant which will cost in the I 4 neighborhood of 7000 and will include I i it equipment a 45horse power I J boiler a 50 horsepower engine and an I 8inch suction pump t The boat will be about 30x75 feet in 1 dimensions and will be launched in a excavation forty feet wide 100 feet 1 long and < about ten feet deep This pic will be filled with water from one of the streams and then everything is ready for business j T goldsaving equipment will con VSst of a long perforated carrier elevated ele-vated at the front end of the boat and lowered at the rear and under this will bf the sluice boxes with riffles The r rrler will b fed at the front end by of the sucticra which will xwis 0 suctc pumps wil raise the gravel from the diggings below be-low and ahead and while the tailings vill be deposited in the rear the boat I 1 with its i plant will always be afloat and cutting it way into new ground The gravel in th carrIer will be con Elamitily sprayed thus washing the gold and concentrtutes into the slusces below be-low where i is confidently believed that a large percentage of the yellow metal will be saved The gold as a general thing is coarse aid the gravel will average from 25 to 50 cents to the yard which is considered consider-ed rich as it Is believed that 10 cent dirt can be worked 3 a profit I is oxpeoted thoc the plant will be in operation within forty days Its caipacjtv is estimated at from 1000 to 1500 cubic yards doily and it is i aid nieJ that a saving of a least 500 a1 ay will bo made Te placers also abound in stream s tin assaying 6S per cent pure and it is pitated that a ton of this valued at S100 a ton wiil be found in each days cleanup This is a big undertaking but the men behind it have the means and nerve t carry it through and the will doubt to be a venture wal 110 prove b a successful one sccesSu I |