Show big gold placer enterprise BY WILL C HIGGINS in mining operations nothing is more attractive than a gold g old placer enterprise so persistently followed in the early days in colorado montana california and idaho the gold diggings of the past to a certain extent have been sluicing or hydraulic propositions and it has been of late years only that river dredging has been carried on on a large and profitable scale and especially ally so in california and idaho good river liver gold placers as a matter of fact have been diffin difficult alt to find and then in many cases hard to secure orf on account of restrictions which have been placed upon placer mining operations in several of the western states still every now and then propositions of this character present themselves for public notice and approval one of the latest ventures of this character being on the colorado river near the mouth of eldorado canyon in lincoln county nevada at this point the colorado river dredging company of st paul minnesota owning and now beginning work on acres of placer ground across the river on the arizona side of the stream and from three to five miles below the canyon on the nevada side has ordered its first dredging plant and the material and machinery for the same is now being hauled from chloride to the river where the dredge will be constructed ted the company is having its diggings surveyed and will make application for patent as soon as this work is completed H J myers of detroit michigan a veteran and experienced placer miner was the original locator of the placer ground in question as well as the promoter of this enterprise and he states that the first dredge will be in operation by the last las t of march or the first of april 1908 the company has contracted for and will put in three more dredges as soon as they can be furnished by the byron jackson iron works of west berkeley california wm ely bachall Ba the attorney for the company and its assistant secretary as well is now on the ground with the surveyors and is directing operations mr leon french of searchlight is the com banys attorney at that point and is also aleo looking after company interests as the gold placers are located but twenty five miles or more inore from the golden triangle exhaustive tests have been made of the river banks and also of the bed of the stream and it has been demonstrated that gold exists within the environment environments ts of company holdings in payable quantity the bed of the river showing g the presence of the yellow metal to the extent of to the yard this determination having been arrived at after numerous nume rotis and exhaustive tests had been made the enterprise is a most interesting inhere sting one from a scientific standpoint and certainly appeals to those who might become interested in a large mining proposition which is to be carried on upon an extensive scale mr air french has expressed a willingness to furnish all necessary data regarding 0 this enterprise to all desiring the same and air myers of bradbury building los angeles can be easily reached should occasion demand |