Show TO SAVE CAPE NOME GOLD the gold of cape nome is exciting the passions of many not only will there be a wild rush to that bleak bit of alaskan coast in the early spring but the wits of many a shrewd yankee will be applied to the invention of ways waya and means of more quickly extracting from the golden sand its ita wealth v of yellow treasure two butte mining engineers gi says the spokesman review have patented an invention by means of which they hope to leap quickly to fortunes the men are gust A and J P hanson hanon the invention in a pumping dredge dreda e the theory is that the gold in the cape nome beach is washed in from the ocean evidently there is gold under the water as well as on the beach and it is this gold under the waves that the butte men are after briefly stated their scheme is to plant a small dynamo on the beach with a traction engine the dynamo will be connected with an airtight air tight centrifugal pump which will be placed upon the sandy floor of the beach out beyond the low line this pump is expected to pump up the gold bearing sand and to convey it to the beach through a steel pipe into a sluice box an ingenious arrangement of pulleys which the ability to shorten or lengthen length en the delivery pipe makes it possible to move the pump around over the ocean floor and to operate over large territory the machinery is planned to be so compactly built that it can be packed up and carried along the beach to new diggings by the traction engine when desired E E peterson son of butte was in the city yesterday with plans for this machinery he and mr hanson are going to cape nome in the early spring to install the plant As the beach under the water is not subject to location the butte men believe that they may dredge up the sand wherever they like and no one may question their title to all the gold they can save |