The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-24
GOLD MINING FROM A BOAT.
Old Miners Have n Plan to Dredo.
the Yellow Metal Out of the Riv.,
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Old Miners Have "A Plan To Dr.,.
the yellow Metal out of the III
Beds.
From the San Francisco Examine
A queer craft is nearing completion o..
me ship yards on Alameda Point 7, =
me property OF the Golden Sands Minis
company, and Will be used in an e----.s
IQh 10 the American and Feather ne
Where the owners hope to dredee -
unes out OF the beds Of those stream. ''-'
The Golden Sands Mining Conner.
george - Tolman, a pioneer Of ss ~
leader; John Reagen a restauran+ -of
81 on Ihlrq street, for a hacker. Az
stockholders. These have become As as
Nlnced that in the beds of the Ameri fo.-
ana Feather rivers large fortunes ave ao -1
oeale9 mat nave been washed out of The
mountain canyons by the storms Of - .e
80 the plan of dredging and washing ~,
dredgings was conceived and is now $50
carried into execution. 9"s
Inc dredger was built almost entire,.
by 3Gen." Tolman and "Ideut WY
nam. The craft is of their own deviefn,
ana II Is as unique in construction a. >
the plan of the mining scheme. &c q"
Climbing over the varied assortment -
anchors, masts, windlasses and bosrSt1
which litter the wharf, one is abis -.
come within hailing distance of the 10y
tie, as the boat is named, If one -
good lungs and uses them. Lieut. Wics-
nam is a laxative, weather-beaten littia
man, and not at all averse to explainin,
the workings of the craft
we have been building This boa+ g.
Tour months" he said this morning "aTj
nave her about finished at last In tva
weeks we shall be ready 10 sail Ii baS
been especially hard work heca1tss 90, Us
Iolman and l have had to do abont I'll
me construction ourselves, for lack ~
Suihclent capital. 1t doesn't Iool, %
though this establishment was worth
very much, but It will have cost MS a
round 5000 before we get away.
1t Will all come back soon enough
though; our machines will handle f7ty
erages g a ton, which is a very low est
mate there is 500 a day, with the eY-
pense not one-quarter that. We know tba
gold IS in the rivers, so you can see thar
we have got very good thing
"A number of points along the Amer
lcan ana Feather rivers have been pick
ed out for operations, and we shall have
no difficulty in getting up there as tba
Lottie draws only two feet of water AN
the power for propulsion and machinery
VIII be supplied by a 3O-horse power gas
ollne engine which we have just put in.
a regular dredge viii be used to get the
sand from the river bed; after which II
VIII be run through sluices to the ANAL
Samators and concentrators. All the min
ing and dredging machinery will be on
the ROOF OF the cabin, and as this boat
IS only siXty-fiVe feet long and twenty
feet wide, we may be a little crowded
hen the enterprise pays well we
shall have a new boat built that will
handle much more ore and be much bet
ter arranged. There will be only four or
fye in the crew, though, so they can get
along for a while In the cabin there Is
a galley, dining room, two bunk rooms
and general room, so that there will not
be much crowding below. But we are
not going on this trip for comfort, so we
viii get along. II Is our own creation
and we feel a personal pride in the appa-
ratus. Sometimes we work until 9
o'clock in the morning putting up some
piece of machinery or finishing some car
penter work. With the exception of the
hull, every stick and nail in the boat was
put there by US. When people work like
that and know what they are about they
generally succeed"