Show may dredge for gold in sands of grand river according to the daily press pi ess a combination of operators at garfield utah are nosing into other things than the milling and smelling smelting sm sni elting of ores plans it is said are being considered by the utah placer mining company with regard to the development of its property of acres lying on the grand river liver just below the mouth of the dolores river in grand county utah the nearest railroad point is cisco on the denver and rio grande railroad the fish ford group of claims consisting of acres lies about five miles up the river from cisco upon the fish ford claims the gravel will average per yard about 60 cents in gold and 91 cents in platinum according to secretary treasurer H J butcher officials of the company believe that the gravel on the claim can be most successfully handled by dredging one deposit goes 1 per yard fifteen miles down the river from the fish ford claims are situated the braught and the helen claims the gravel ot the braught Be aught claim carries about 1 in gold and 46 cents in platinum per yard probably the work upon the braught and the helen claims can be done most economically by sluicing according to mr butcher the water supply is adequate for all mining pu purposes all other conditions are said to be favorable for development well planned development work of the company was interrupted in 1918 by conditions arising from the war all of the ef facts resulting from these conditions have been overcome so that officials of the company believe work can be begun with the opening of the season recently some interesting tests were made upon samples from the companas comp anys braught and helen claims to determine whether wilfley tables could be used effectively in recovering the values from he gravel superintendent T A janney of ane utah copper company gives the following report upon the tests I 1 concentration tests are made 11 from the helen sample a recovery of 0 50 cents in gold or approximately per cent was made results of the alie test of the braught sample were more satisfactory from the fact tha a recovery of 84 per cent was made by these tests it was found that the gold from the braught sample concentrates very readily and good recovery of same can be made from table concentration while in the case of the helen sample gold did not concentrate cen as satisfactorily as in the case of the braught sample from the test it is apparent thae that the gold is associated with iron although a clean concentrate was made a large percentage of the iron was not concentrated this assumption is apparently correct as in the helen sample per cent of gold was recovered and only 16 per cent of iron while in the case of the braught sample 84 per cent of gold old was recovered and per cent of the iron showing in the latter case twice as much gold was recovered as in the former and about twice as much iron was recovered we took a small portion of the concentrates made from the helen test and found that about 68 per cent of the concentrates was composed of magnetic iran and 32 per cent nonmagnetic it would be interesting to determine whether or not the gold value was in the magnetic iron or nonmagnetic iron but inasmuch as the sample was not large enough we could not determine this officers and directors of the company are as follows theodore peterson president harry grass vice president H J butcher s secretary e trea treasurer surer edward helmerich george C phillips hatry harry H murphy and F T toms |