Show THE GOlORAOOS BARS ti Maj Stanton Explains His Companys Plans THE DREDGER THEY TAKE IN It is Now on the Way Will Have a Capacity of Two Thousand Cubic I Yards Daily and Will be Run this Year with Gasoline Engine but I Eventually by ElectricityTho Gold is Known as Pine Gold but Not Flour GoldThe Company Putting Put-ting in 100000 to Start the Work Yea I have just returned from a Glenn cab trip to our placer mines In I yon on tho Colorado river yesterday said Maj R B ritanton who baa devoted de-voted nearly a dozen years to the prospecting pros-pecting or that region and have let a contract for hauling our machinery from the rnllroad at Green River sta miles above about two tion to our canip Halls crossing Our company the Hoskanlnnl Intends to erect upon tho river a fullsize placer mining dredge of a I rated capacity of 2000 yaids a day The contracts for all the machinery have been let to the Bu Cyruc company of South Milwaukee WIs and lumber for the boat will be furnished by the North Pacific company of Portland Or Part of the machinery and lumber will be Is now on the way and teams gin I transporting It from Green River station via Hanksvllle early next week ro transport something over 250 tons nf machinery and lumber a distance of 130 miles across the southern part of tho State is quite a contract and has of Inpn lot to Charles A Gibbons Hanksvllle A DIFFICULT PROBLEM In regard to the placer mining work on the Colorado river I will he very glad If I you would make a few state companys behalf Vc ments on our dlinrult problem In are undertaking a our attempting to handle in large quantities quan-tities the goldbearlng gravel that is deposited In Glenn canyon I Ural became be-came acquainted with this section and Ilir orninl dnnriKllS Iilnntr iVO river SOniC LII lt11 1 C eleven years ago and at that time I rug egl11 to some friends In the East Ihe possibility of handling these gravels chain of by means of a continuous buckets a revolving ncrccn and a 8lulcebo all placed upon a boat III the river At that time there was no such dredging machinery in operation in the United Slates and I had not heard of the I operations which wore being carried on III New Zealand My friends and 1 at tint time made a careful investigation of several placer bars The great difficulty then was the J matter of fuel to make stein for the I purpose of operating the machinery For that reason the scheme was dropped entirely for quite a number of years Some three years ago mi learning learn-ing oC tho successful operation uf a dredge by electricity on Grasshopper creek near Bannock Mnnt I visited that section of the country and made I a careful examination Into the subject nnd satisfied myself that the gravel ont on-t the Colorado river could eventually be HANDLED AT A PROFIT by means oC electricity generated by r the water power of the river With the assistance oC some personal frlendo L in Columbus 0 we located a large 1 number of gravel bars In Glenn canyon and organized our present company for the purpose of handling the same by means of dredging machinery The undertaking is not at all an easy one There have been a great many wild and foolish stories published In regard 10 the high values and wonderful deposits I de-posits of gold In these Colorado river gravels The facts In regard to the case are these There is an Immense deposit of oldb2arlng gravel 1 ext ending end-ing all through what Is known I as Glenn canyon from Ihe mouth of the Dirty DeYI river to the head of Marble canyon can-yon at Lees Ferry Arizona a distance of 175 miles From very many and careful r care-ful examinations I believe that thin gravel will average about 25 cents per cubic yard While it Is true that In p Home localities there arc deposits that will go as high as SI 1 and 2 this does not represent the value of the gravel ns It exists In commercial quantities The gold In the gravel Is what Is known as fine gold but IB not what is known ns flake 01 flour gold Fo thin reason It Is very much easier l handled than the gold found In the l Snake river gravels hut all the statements been pub ia ments that have recently lished of finding nuggets on the Colorado Colo-rado river as this word Is 1 generally ua1 understood re entirely I misrepresenting misrepresent-ing the case As far as I Jcnow and I have spent a good many years on the river there Is 1 rvr NO COURSE GOLD n H mini 8 would understand that 1 term I found anywhere on the Colorado river The gravel deposits In Glenn canyon are of two kinds the high ban which tire from ten to fifty and more feet above tho present level of the ylvcr and 1i1 are not covered by high watiir The I lU low bars which are In the bed of the stream some of them always underwater under-water and the others largely exposed during low water but covered during I AEt hlch water These high bars have been i II handled ofC and on for the last fifteen I 1tls yearn ant when worked carefully by I hahd or by small machines have been handled very successfully that 13 the S miners have been able to save a very T large per cent of the gold In the gravel j but the expense of handling this gravel t either by hand with ploughs and scrapers or In any way In small quan t M titles becomes so excessive there ia dOe fm but little profit In the operation No < extended attempt has ever been made Ito < I-to handle the low burt of the river until the prerent time The problem I that our company has In hand Is to I S handle the gravel of the low burn andrea f and-rea er tho e of the hilt bars by YJI m ans of dredging machinery so that M In handling 2000 yards per day with one dredge the expense of operation l t per cubic yard will be so reduced that V A SATISFACTORY PROFIT 5 will remain for the Invorloru The I solving of this problem our company I gr has taken up In eameat and will this demon L year expend about 100000 I r g Htrato the commercial 1 value oC the plnrer n gold upon the Colorado i river uDh i The operation of this flnil dredge will be very much more expensive than it Ji will be In fulbre for the ivaaon that I f shall hiv to operate our dredge i this year by means of gasoline onglnec r st hauling the gasoline 130 miles by wagon wa-Gon from the railroad Even though may J however the expense of operation alt tf thin flrat dredge I much to cxcosHlvc I t 1 to secure a fair profit upon our work c if we Ire able to demonstrate the suet sue-t plti cessful bundling of thIs gravel In this way we shall then undortaku f very t much larger scheme In the future Ill tJ c that IB the company xMll comUruct nitS t bf 1rj extensive water newer and electric tlCtot plant upon th river for the putpone of e tot t operating tH dtvdgi h r 1 trlclty Thl pourr txill uiiii tlu c i t nf edti operation to pi 1 ih ipv tlirl r A dnl J C elt I t will L nqultt 1 tor ilii U I ln1r I 1t zuial In th 1 fh nru 170 TJ It11 PU rarJ to increase the nurnVer ot their dredges many time during the next Ipw years I The moat dlfllcult problem however that we are undertaking to overcome Is that of handling on one machine I eighty cubic yards of gravel per hour 1 Is I a very easy matter for two miners to successfully handle one cubic yard I per hour on a small beach machine such as Is used upon tho Snake river but It Is an exceedingly dllllcult mechanical j me-chanical problem to multiply this capacity j ca-pacity lo eighty cubic yards per hour find make the same percentage of saving sav-ing of the fine gold ENTERPRISE SHOWN I think the gentlemen who are connected con-nected with our company are showing I considerable enterprise In expending I so large a sum of money to demonstrate demon-strate this one dlillcult point I they are successful they will add largely ib the mining Industries of southern Utah I they are not successful they will certainly have shown their goodwill good-will toward that section of the country Please be kind enough to state for me one or two points which may save some trouble In the future Our company com-pany will only employ this year some twelve or fifteen men these being all machinists and other mechanics which were sent by l the machinery company for the purpose erecting our dredge I There will be no employment upon the river for a large number of men In any capacity and It Is a very I difficult dry country to travel 1 over for the purpose of seeking work especially when nothing noth-ing but disappointment can bo found at the other end I do not think the Colorado river Is it place for single handed minors never mind what their energy and capacity may be The gravels are of such low grade that nothing can be done with them except upon n large scale with very large capital capi-tal and with this idea In view our compo com-po has secured A V15RV LARGE rRACT of territory covering all of the available availa-ble ground from Dandy Crossing to Lees Ferry There are a number or private partlcu owning claims along the river adjoining ours but at the present time I do not believe there Is I one acre of valuable gioijnd anywhere from Dandy Crossing to Lees Ferry that Is not located and owned by some of us FO that It IH i 1 very poor country to go Into at the present time I re fet to this in order to save possibly considerable expense and hardship to parlies who may be looking that way for placer mining propositions either I dredging or otherwise The company of which tho Major Is I the manager is composed principally of prominent New York capitalists with Mr John R Stanton as president and l J Wheeler Ilardley of New York secretary and treasurer These gentlemen gentle-men are also Identified l with the great Phoenix Copper Aiming company and n cluster nf others of equal prominence In the hZLkC Superior region and arc provided with abundant means for the big undertaking |