| Show THE TARR MINING COMPANY the tarr mining company of ha hagelstein building sacramento california will begin operations about november I st in the recovery of gold from its extensive placer diggings at Smarts ville yuba county and is now giving its extensive and up to date equipment a thorough tryout try out the deposits of auriferous gravel owned by the company range from to feet in width and the values exist from the grassroots grass roots down to bedrock bed rock going about 1 to the cubic yard the placers will be worked without throwing the debris into the river by a system of tramways tram ways the tailings being crib bed so that they can be worked over again to prevent the silt from escaping into the river a large reservoir has been constructed which covers an area of about acres the company has installed a large stationary dredge to which the gold bearing gravel is conducted by means of hydraulics the plant having a capacity of yards per day of twenty four hours the water supply is derived through a canal twenty five miles in length having a capacity of miners inches by the process employed the dredge catches all of the coarse gold while the tailings will be run over thirty six concentrating tables which will recover the black sand which contains large quantities of platinum the concentrates being valued at from to to the ton below bedrock the mining review is informed there exists deposits of cement gravel sixty fet thick which runs from 5 to 90 to the yard in gold the company has expended in the development of its holdings and in its equipment and it is estimated that it will take from twenty five to forty years to work out its holdings E W tarr is president and general manager 0 |
