Show hydraulic placer mines of the galice consolidated written for the mining review grants pass ore feb 34 24 the galice consolidated company of galice southern tO oregon regon which owns the complete water right of both forks of that historic old stream and over acres of mineral I 1 ground has just declared a monthly divi I 1 t bend of one half cent t wr share as a result of a recent cleanup clean up manager al cousin S states that the present outlook of the property promises a regular dividend the remainder of the sea son SOD the galice consolidated is one of the few placer mines that has had ample water for operations this r season as the rain fall has been unusually flight light four monitors have been kept at I 1 work night and day c ar and id will be operated for several months yet in truth by the excellent system of reservoirs airs and con serving ving dams a ply is maintained for an all all summer run of at least one giant besides its regular operations the comi pay ny has under way the gigantic proposition of 0 I 1 pening opening up galice canyon by setting a tig ul double flume on the bed of the creek into flito which will be washed all of the gold tearing earing gravel on both sides of the stream the he high benches bars and channels As the galice consolidated owns all of the ground along galice and the bars and channels on rogue river for a distance of one mile there can arise no contention on the question of debris by private parties the laws of the state of oregon favor the placer miner and rogue river being an stream makes possible no trouble in the matter of choking navigation also there are no farming or fishing laws to interfere ter fere and the big flume now in operation can dump its thousands of cubic yards of gravel per day into rogue river indefinitely 17 and uninterruptedly manager cousin has repeatedly made the assertion that when the property was fully equipped he would be able to move yards of gravel per day and at as his estimates have always been conservative and representations kept to the letter it is con b 4 7 41 4 R COX IN OPERATION ON GALICIC CREEK GIANTS OF THE BATTERY OF THE GALICE fi dently expected that by spring this capacity will be reached with a great increase in the amount of daily output in gold dust and nugget with the battery of four or five giants now at work on the rich bars along the creek the company compan is paying dividends of at least one quarter of a cent per share monthly and during the past three years while this property was in process of development eight dividends of one half cent per share have been paid only a placer mine can do these things quartz mining requires a clear outlay of from up in cold detore before any returns can be expected but the galice placers by economical and judicious management have practically paid their own way and thousands of dollars to stockholders besides the money received from the sale of a part of its treasury stock having been expended in purchasing and equipping additional properties while at the same time mining was being vigorously prosecuted on the companas comp anys already large original holding the properties of each of the subsidiary companies were entirely paid for before any stock stoc kwas was placed on the market in consolidating the two companies galice hydraulic with the st helens and galice there was no stock watering or jobbing and no officer or anyone profited one dollar or a share of stock by the consolidation it was made in 40 or lvov A IAL IF 71 14 7 W aar LI C 41 AJ E ar b Q IQ ab 1 elevated flume 2 two 5 inch streams mine no 2 3 bridge for pipe line across galice 4 campbell gravel elevator in place 5 flume along ditch 6 main camp at galice 7 reservoir no 1 8 one of the ten cabins owned by company 9 dam 22 feet high 10 worth of nuggets 11 high flume 12 sluices 13 mine no 1 14 mine no 3 15 main ditch 16 break in ditch the best interests of all concerned and for economy of management and operation the water rights of galice consolidated are valued by disinterested parties at over a quarter of a million the ditches have cost all told over and has been spent in machinery on this property the value of the ground cannot be estimated ranging all the way from to per acre and the company owns outright acres and has control of that much more the claims 40 acres at the mouth of galice are estimated to contain gold enough to pay nearly the par value of the stock gamblers bar along rogue river will yield from seventy five cents to per cubic yard and by using the companas comp anys gravel dl elevator evator from 1000 to 1500 yards per day will be handled for seven months in the year starting in april of each year this is a low river bar where the gold being swept out of the galice canyon for ages has been caught by rogue river and deposited upon a strip of rough slate bed rock only a few feet above the river at normal stage together with boulders sand and the heavy material always accompanying gold heretofore it was thought impossible to work this rich bar except by the slow hand process but as the galice company has its high ditch extended to this point now and an available gravity pressure pre ssuie of feet this gravel can be shot up an incline toa to a height of fifty feet and run off through an elevated flume and dumped into rogue river on the upper part of the creek gold bearing deposits of vast extent are practically untouched except to determine their richness and each year will see the equipment increased and improvements inaugurated that will move the ground more rapidly and with added profit DENNIS H STOVALL |