Show Desolation in Wake W of Gigantic Gold Dredges A Automobile tourists through the part of California are arc liable to have their attention attention attracted to muon of cobblestones seen Sometimes these plies piles are 50 0 or orCO CI feet reet high and several sc feet IlIn They are arc never beautiful and they tinCy add nothing to the landscape In fact they are e eyesores csores but hut there Is liflIe prospect of fir I their ul remo These plies ore are the accumulation of ot the gold dredges gigantic constructions which eat their way through the thc land and leave n a trail of or desolation Farm lands and orchards are brought up by the operators and left In ruin for tor the land landIs landis landIs Is useless for Cor any purpose whatever after the passa passage e of ot the dredger machines cost about a Quarter or of n a million dollars but the cost ot of operation Isery Is very ery small A large quan quantity thy of or the earth must be treated to recover a sm small quantity of v metal but a that the business Is very profitable The The he stones taken from the soil are us useful Cui only to grind up for tor cement buy bul bu the plies piles standing today will offer oner crushed crushed i stone sufficient for tor fortine tine the demands dem of ot the entire country tintry for tor many years Washington Star |