Show Desolation in to Wake of I Gigantic Gold Dredges Automobile tourists through the northern part of at California are liable to hate ha e their attention attracted to mountains mountain of at cobblestones frequently I SeEn Sometimes the these e piles ar aror an GO or fit GO feet teet high h h and several hundred feet flet long ICIng They are arc beautiful and they add nothing 1 nothing to the landscape In Intact tact they are arc eyesores but there Is little pro prospect lect of ot their removal remo These I on arc nr the accumulation O of the gold uld dredges gigantic constructions which eit t their way through the land e and len lenie a trill of ot desolation Farm lands and orchards are brought up by the operators and left In ruin for tor the land landIs landIs Is useless for tor any purpose wh te er after the passage of or the dredger er 1 These machines cost about a n quarter ot of p l million dollars but the cost ot of operation Is very ery small A large quan quantity of at the earth rth must be treated to tr a n small quantity of or the yellow metal but at nt that the business Is very profitable The stones taken from the soil soU are useful only to grind up for tor cement but the pile piles standing today hill III offer crushed stone for tor forthe the demands of at the entire country for tor many years years Star |