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Show PLACER MINING BEING DONE NEAR GOLDFIELD The Goldfield-Tule Canyon Placer Mining Min-ing company and the Tule Canyon Placer association are washing gravel on their claims, thirty-five miles south of Gold-field. Gold-field. Following completion of a sump in bedrock, the former Is driving two drifts in the gravel with good results, and the latter is driving west toward the canyon can-yon side with one shaft which is sunk in the center. A drift has been driven twenty feet in material assaying about $5 per yard, and the cleanup of one short length of riffles on Saturday night gave one ounce of gold after a twenty-four-hour run, says the Goldfield Tribune. The managers of the companies are still experimenting with their equipment to permit the handling of a larger tonnage. The Goldfield-Tule Canyon is working five men on one shift and the Tule Canyon association Is working a total of six men on two shifts, with a third shift soon to be added. Old-tlmer.s in the canyon say this year is one of the driest on record, and the water is now rising only from five to six feet in the Goldfield-Tule Canyon shaft. The workings of the company to date are taken to indicate that dredging of the deposits economically would be impossible, impossi-ble, as boulders weighing many tons have been found all through the gravel. |