Show I DREDGING SNAKE RIVER Big Company Formed to Extract Gold M From the Sands I TRIBUNE SPECIAL I Butte Mont SepL 22B F Orchards Or-chards of Baker City Ore who is in Butle tel of the formation of 0 gigantic gi-gantic company with a capital of 10 000000 for the purpose of dredging the bctl of Snake river This company will adopt entirely new methods In Iew of the fact that all past efforts to work these sands have been notable failures Mr Orchards says that his company his secured the services of an eminent engIneer who has had extensive experience experi-ence In this sort of work in Australia and the Initial test he has made of the nandn satisfies him that they will yield rich returns For a long lime It has been known lhat the bars of the river have been rlph In flour gold but all efforts to save this elusive stuff have failed I Is l proposed to construct a large cyanide plant and the river will bo damned to bedrock and then the cold bearing water will be carried off bcarllJ wlter wi In pipes where the gold will be extracted i by means of zinc precipitation tanks Mr Orchards remarked that a great deal of the stock had already been r placed In Oregon while the remainder bIt being negotiated for In New York Mr Orchards Is en routo for New E York in the Interest of this deal |