Show THE COLORADO RIVER DREDGING CO A few issues ago the mining review made mention of the enterprise odthe colorado river dredging company a a corpo corporation which is interested in installing a large gold dredging boat on the colorado river a short distance below the mouth of the eldorado canyon in lincoln county nevada and which is now busily engaged in getting in the machinery and material for its dredge while in san francisco during the latter part of november the editor of the mining review visited the plant of the byron jackson iron works at west berkeley where the castings for the equipment were being made and the management stated that work would soon be so far along that this material could soon be shipped to its destination that such shipments are now being made we glean from the miner of kingman arizona which says A train load of material for the big dredging plant that is to be installed on the colorado river below eldorado canyon passed ov erthe western railway of arizona tuesday last this is but the first installment of the great plant that is to make a test of the the gravel banks and bed of the colorado river throughout the lower end of black and bulls head canyons where it is said rich values have been found in both fine and coarse gold W E bramhall general manager of the company is looking after the work of assembling the machinery and big boats that are to carry the dredging machines mr H J myers of los angeles is the father of this enterprise which is a gigantic one in its undertaking and it is hoped and believed that the production of river gold in large quantities will be reported before the middle of the year |