Show FRISCO PLACER COMPANY era clifton arizona the long looked for test run of the plant of the frisco placer mining company was made last week the result was a success even beyond the expectations of the company the plant installed with a few slight alterations will be placed in steady operation within a month or six weeks at the conclusion of the test run which consisted of forty yards of gold bearing dirt the basin under the second was examined and there before the eye plainly visible was a yellow mass intermingled with the black sand superintendent murray wore a glad smile at the conclusion of the run the exact figures of the result of the test run have not been given out but it is sufficient to say that the plant when in full operation can be depended upon to save not less than 80 per cent of the values and it is even estimated as high as 90 per cent J 0 baylor of clifton was present at the finish of the test run and expressed himself in the highest terms as to the values received from the limited amount of gravel run through stating in his opinion there was over dollars of the precious I 1 metal in the lower basin alone the pierce amalgamator did not catch much as the basin under the second recovered nearly all the values at present a system of power cable scrapers is being put in these comprise four scrapers attached to a cable carrier which will carry the gravel direct to the machine and thus doing away with wheelbarrows and and much lessen the cost of handling the dirt mr lennox one of the original owners was in town tuesday and stated that he had options on ground along the west river front for sixteen miles some two years ago A D lennox and E G cook went to work on their ground in a primitive way and worked along steadily making enough to pay their way and their hired help some four months ago J M erickson become interested te with them and proposed a great deal larger plant with the result that C B and W C crawford together with mr erickson and others have furnished the necessary capital to put the property on its present basis with this era of gold production in the district will come many more similar plants and the employment of hundreds of men which means much for clifton its merchants and craftsmen one success of this kind is a guarantee that others can do likewise |