Show RIVER PLACERS TO BE scientifically WORKED california syndicate how moling in bla machinery chinery to auriferous beds via ia natural bridge road leigh W arbuckle and E L seavy of carlsbad calif accompanied by it a cica of six six men with several t ciuck load liadi s of machinery including puilla pumps engine and equipment or sluice boxes boxel passed through town yesterday on their way to tile the colorado Coloia do river below halls crossing where they will install the machinery on oil what is known as the gretchen gold har bar the gentlemen stated that they had been aaen engaged in testing this and other bars wis along the ii i river i for the past year having gone in by way of kayenta kayetta Ka yenta ariz anz and mccross the san juan river iner heretofore but on account of the difficulties in crossing that treacherous stream they had been compelled to look out a more moie feasible route loute avei which to take in their machinery they have hae engaged goo perkins and morley black to haul their equipment over elk ridge on the natural budge bridge road load from the end of which they will make their own road load to the location following the old pioneer road load to tile the hole in the rock most i of the way mr ml arbuckle Ai buckle stated that tests had shown that they had sufficient gravel or on bars bais above high water mark or on the river liver to keep them operating for twenty years at the rate of yards a day and that tests show that tile the i bar will go from to per yard aid of coarse gold this he thinks is only the beginning of what will be developed along the river when it is made accessible to motor travel |