Show PLACER MINING ON GREEN RIVER advocate price utah placer mining on green river at jensen fifteen miles southeast of vernal has been carried on for four years and now the mitchell dredge is at work digging out the banks of old green river throwing the dirt into the sluices which carry it to the rockers where it is handled on the amalgamated process of concentration the dirt averages from sixty cents to one dollar and seventy five cents a yard but some of it carries as high as two dollars to two dollars and awen ty five cents according to dr C carhart druggist assayer and chemist of vernal who was a salt lake visitor last week with mrs car carhart art the doctor has a bottle of the green river concentrates which runs sixteen hundred dollars to the ton john K bullock ex mayor of vernal I 1 understand is now incorporating a company to take over the mitchell arnold and mchughs placer properties on the green river these latter claims are four miles north of jensen the banks here containing the gold are handled on the caving system the water is pumped from the river up on the hill and poured into the sluices making the process extremely cheap as there is ample water right at hand the concentrates show 45 per cent magnetic iron sand and some rubles rubies A surprising thing about this dirt is the gumbei number of rubles rubies found in it generally they are too small for commercial purposes but some weigh about half a carat the gold is so fine and flaky that some difficulty has been found in saving it and a new process may be installed for three hundred miles up the river prospecting parties have time and again gone in search of the ledge edge which has given off these rich deposits found along the river but so far without success they have prospected the banks from jensen to wyoming with the one exception the failure so far of catching a sufficiently heavy proper x tion of the fine flaky particles of gold placer mining on green river has been very su successful and today presents an attractive field for men with capital and experience in handling dirt of this character says the doctor |