| Show I MINES AND MINING EDITED BY F. F W. W SPRAGUE k J T SAYS SA UINTAH AH PLACER RIVALS CALIFORNIA'S t Resources of Eastern Utah Should Enlist Capital Declares Declares De De- clares dares Burton DREDGE GIVES RESULTS t 1 I V ft Opportunities for Power Placer Placer Pla- Pla and Irrigation Projects Projects Prot Pro- Pro t Great Great t c. c lust wh why vImy the tho resources resource o or county count Its county Is Its gold goJ placere placers it lia IU power possibilities Its iti Is hydrocarbons and Its Is l Holds should be so to long Ions neglected h by capital Is a n proposition which to jnnny is I inexplicable Arid nd It I Is particularly par par- so BO to n. n Burton Burlon secretary oC of tho ho Placer Mining Irrigation Exploration company compan who declares that the time Green Grcen river ri cr placers aro are al al- al equal to those of Oroville Oro Cal Cal where ho has done much dredging ln where Y Virtually no risk Is taken in working L those these placers pincers ho Ito points point out out for fOl the gold old contents are casU easily tested and the manner of ot taking taking- then them out Is simple It I lit hi a a. 0 source of millions of wealth which Is la lying Idle awaiting tho the first firs firstI frt I I com comers r to enrich them themselves es el with littie little lit lit- 11 1 tie tle te effort an and almost no chance of oe ot failure allure Mr Ir Burtons Burton's company I last t fall faU In Installed Installed In- In stalled dredging machinery upon Its It placer lacer ground gound about vent t twenty miles I I ast t of or Vernal Veral The Tho test run rUI made made- just before cold weather cather stopped lopped work for tor tho the winter was wa eminently successful ho he says Tho The dredge demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated dem dem- an al actual capacity of oC handling hand hand- ling hug from 1500 to 2000 yards of o dirt a da day and the average l s saving of or values was wae as proven to be from 30 cents cent to 40 cents cent a ft a yard The placer leh Held at that place on Green river Is 18 from seven o cn to nine miles mUes long and ant from miles wide one half one hal tulle mile to two To 0 Build Power Plant In addition to Us Its Is placer work Mr Ur 11 Burtons Burton's Buton's company is arranging to construct on 01 tho the river an electrio power plant plant the main purpose of which will wm be bo to lift IUt water for tor Irrigating gating nearby lands The Tho com company pan also owns quartz quart properties and hydrocarbon hy h- dro lands which It purposes developing do- do later on Jt It I already has ha a promising coal deposit which is producing producing pro pro- to some s mo extent tont The Tho To great openings in that fol field at atthe the present time In Mr 11 Burtons Burton's opinion are 0 placer mining and power Irrigation projects these involving the slightest risk with possibilities of enormous profits Large areas of or the best lands are arc available and thore there are arc I many opportunities for generating electrical energy by 3 water power The is needed for both power developing de tho ho agricultural and the mining in In- In In Jn the te oil oi region about thirty thirl miles mies lt or the placer field felt where tho Tunnel Oil Oi i. i p well wel or Ol tunnel several rigs arc are being I operated an and it i is understood that that I at least ono one or two of or the wells wens have o ha It II I is believed ed that only development develop f ment is required to bring ring in a n number 1 of heavy hean producers |
