Show HAS IA NEW kh SCHEME EME TO RECOVER GOLD the ruby gold development company with home offices at Wash wash says a spokane report will start at once to build a new style plant to cost in the neighborhood of for the saving of black sand and coarse and fine gold on its salmon river property fourteen miles above idaho on the new north and south highway early records show that in placer gold was shipped out in two years from the florence district by the old methods of hydraulic king and ground sluicing which were very wasteful since then the united states geological survey y and numerous state and private tests and assays essays have shown the black sand of this district to run exceedingly high in gold silver and several rare elements the property of the ruby gold company consists of acres of practically virgin gold bearing gravel averaging 60 feet deep on the inner side of a horseshoe bend of the salmon river the deposit consists of coarse and fine gold nuggets valued as high as 96 have been found in the bars above and below the contents of the bar is estimated by the company at cubic yards of gravel the black sand ratio is estimated at 25 to 1 25 cubic yards of gravello gra produce one ton of black sand the black sand it is said assays essays an average of per ton in gold and other values and the bar is reported to contain tons of black sand |