Show I I LOCAL MEN HOLD HOLDRICH HOLDRICH RICH GOLD PLACER I I Interesting System of Taking Tak Ta- Ta Taing ing Gravel From Tunnel Is Inaugurated Operations on a n large drift placer mine at Oroville Cal Cat under the management management man man- of or John F. F Cowan have had hada hadt a t most Olt interesting be beginning The Tho property is owned entirely by Cowan B. B Binnard and Mat tat Browning no othel other oth er el stockholders being included Included The gravel or of of the tho placer mine sa says 5 Cowan Is ts covered c by about feet teet of ot lava In f. In order to get get Into tho the thoral ral it I was necessary to run a 1600 1500 tO foot l tunnel which was Just completed while Cowan was at the property The work on the tunnel was commenced last August I The Tho gravel r el is very ver rich In tn gold running running run run- ning r a n square yard nrc The gold gol Inthe Intile in inthe the tile placer pIncer does not come In tn nuggets nugget but hut Is in a coarse terra form for There ia Iii JI a washing plant that tha Is finished and several sev soy eral erl buildings on tho the property It I Is expected that the tho management will 1 start to shoot gravel In about bout two 1 0 weeks An extreme extremo unique plan has been put into operation at this tIlls property to get tho the gravel n el out of ot the tho tunnel to the washing plant A pipe line lne was wan run into the tunnel to tho the face and a t largo large flume fume was wn run in coming out of ot the tunnel at a slow grade The gravel gravelIs vel velIs Is shot Int into tho tIle flume fume and the tho water from the tho pipe line lne washes It out out This Is an nn extremely inexpensive e and ef effective et ef- manner manne of ot tho the placer content and the gravel el will be bo washed while going through the tho flume fume The Tho property Is located in an old gold district of ot Sacramento valley ley that was exceedingly rich In the tho early da days B |