| Show SAN JUAN PLACER GOLD in the january issue of the mining review reference was made to the operations of C L tripp of boulder colorado in gold P placer lacer work on the mesas above the san juan river in san juan co county anty I 1 utah and also in the vicinity of farmington new Al mexico exico A copy of the review c containing onta ining the article was sent to mr tripp and a letter has been received from him in which he says 1 I have just received a copy of your paper which looks to me like a neat clean publication and well edited I 1 notice that tha t you make mention of my doings on the san juan river in the southern portion of your state which is all right I 1 believe that one of the greatest mining camps of the west will eventually be opened up in the th e san juan colorado valley this territory is large the gold is plentiful and water exists in abundance the gold is very fine but is free and will amalgamate we have a test plant in operation and are doing a successful business the company will enlarge its plant to a capacity of 1000 yards in the spring and while it is not the only company in the field it was the first and it has the distinction of putting in the first plant and method that ever run successfully in that section and made a saving of flour gold the other companies in the th e field will anvill use our method there is a new device for gold recovery that has just been introduced that I 1 feel sure will eclipse all others it is called the G C A lapoint flour gold separator one of f these machines has been installed at the school of mines here and very successful runs have been made on sand taken from om clear creek I 1 have contracted for three of these th ese machines to be installed on nay properties one at farmington new AT mexico exico one at bluff utah and one at copper canyon eighty miles below bluff |
