Show MAN FROM KAlGOORDIE Rev E Gordon Savile Tells of Mining Camp WONDERFUL GOLD COUNTRY Modern City of 40000 People Has Sprung Up English Clergyman Talks Interestingly Interest-ingly of Australia Where Ho Has Been for Sis Years Did you ever hear of Kalgoordlc Australia Aus-tralia 7 1C you have not you know nothing of the great gold root in the midst of a desert des-ert plain the Golden Mile richest square mile of mineral land In all the world and the flume by which drinking water Is I conveyed < 1 uphill 100 miles from the coast i Wonderful place Is Kalgoordlc From there came yesterday the Rev E Gordon Savile a young clergyman of the Established church who has spent six years building up religious institutions In Australia and is now on his way home to England lie has had enough of Australia FOUND IN ALKALI PLAIN It was about ten yours ago that rich gold deposits were found In Coolgardle far In the Interior of West Australia said Mr Savile at the Kcnyon It was a wonderful discovery as the gold was not In the mountains but cropped out In the very midst of an alkali plain Just such as I crossed coming through Nevada Ne-vada It J was an alluvial deposit and the values were wonderfully rich Of course the news brought thousands ot adventurers adven-turers und prospectors and for a time It l was easy enough to float any kind of a gold mining proposition In London If only you Would 1 say the property was near Coolgardle STRIKE AT KALGOORDIE Naturally tho Prospectors spread out in all directions and gold was found In other nlnor At ICnliroordln LV > ntvllvf > miles from Coolgardle an Irishman named Mike Hannon was out with Homo other fellows and ho spied a bright spot In the sand somewhere He stayed right there and found a gold deposit of extraordinary ex-traordinary richness lie made a great deal of money drank it all up and Is now nt work with a shaker like any other common miner WHAT A SHAKER IS You dont know what a 1 shaker Is Well the Australian miner cannot washout wash-out jug gold IS you do here In your placers because there Is no water So he uses a shaker which is a box containing three sieves of varioussized apertures laid one over another The pay dirt Is shoveled in at the top the box shaken from side to side and the finer dust of course goes to the bottom carrying most of the gold This Is caught In a pan and the pan full of dirt la thrown Into the air The wind blows away the dust and the gold settles back In the pan where It Is scraped up and put Into bags MODERN CITY NOW Hannons find brought the people flocking flock-ing and now there Is a community of 10000 souls a 1 modern city with electric street railways daily papers churches and schools A dozen large mines are working night and day great cyanide mills have been erected to treat the ore and there is enough wealth In sight In the ground to keep the mills busy for tho next thirty years at least Below the alluvial gold was found a rich gold reef and the ore continues to a depth of 20CO feet I IN SAME FIX AS US The great problem Is to get water This necessary commodity Is brought I in from a distance and the people pay 10 shillings a hundred gallons for all they use eIther for drinking or culinary purposes pur-poses Now thoro Is a plan under way to pump tho water from the coast IQO miles away through a twofoot pipe and It Is expected the cost will be reduced to 12 shillings a thousand gallons This Is a wonderful feat 01 engineer ing us tho town of Kalgoordle Is 1WK feet above sea level Seven or eight pumping stations will be established along the Helena river and the promoters of the project are confident they will bu able to furnish an abundant supply of water for the needs of thu city Army Nominations Washington Jan GThe President sent pie following nominations to the Senate Army Promotion artillery corps Lieut W P Vose to be colonel Judge Advocate Generals Department Depart-ment Louis B Lawton Twentysixth Infantry to he Judge Advocate with rank of maJor To be second lieutenant of Infantry Louis B Moseley at large |