Show TO TEST < FLOTJS GOLD A New Machine t Be Tried Here This Week Mr J A Riffle of Denver is here and will this week make a test with a machine ma-chine which he has himself Invented for saving flour gold After showing the workings of his machine here Mr Rime states he will go on to Idaho and make a trial with it along the Snake river at the request of Governor Stunenburc Tne machine Is built on simple lines and its principle Is a close to nature as artificial means will bring i I is built in three sizes for 30 20 and five fe tons capacity The first two are for general placer and mill work and the last named is designed principally for prospecting and cleanup purposes In appearance it is not unlike a square trough with sides a foot or so deep There is a double false bottom with openings half its depth to alo cast iron pcokets to be Hush with amalga noted copper plate bolted to the top of i The pockets are in shane a quadrant of a circle with a flange projecting pro-jecting from the top of the sides towards I to-wards the center This prevents the I I quicksilver from leaving the pockets under downward pressure The pockets I are set with one flat side to the sided I side-d the box and the other standing at I rght angles to the direction of the flaw The eight packets are divided on I tIle sides of abe tro and each oJ cle trough an overlaps over-laps the other thereby preventing a direct current Each of these pockets I is topped withan amalgamated copperplate copper-plate fastened to the box sides These plates form a whirlpool with the pocket containing live quicksilver as I Its bottom and center into which all gravel l or sand is thrown and after f7cd d i I being revolved on the silver is discharged dis-charged around the front edge of the curved ptete The process is repeated in the nexi pccket the whirlpool being reversed Rusty geld is held i the pockets while every particle of black sand is earned out of the machine I Back of each plate an eddy is formed c ho la h I the water to the bottom The device Is placed at right angles I to the sluice box with a grizzly at line end next to the waaher A false bottom I bot-tom carries off everything that will I pas through a onequarter inch opening open-ing through the machine |