The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-02
DIRT is WORTH MONEY
That Is If ElliOtl'S Gold Saver Is
Used.
MINERS ARE lNTERES TED
One of the Most Valuable Inven-
yentions of This Age So Far
AS Gold Mining Is Con-
cerned-By Butte Man.

BUTTE, Jan. ii. A. Elliott or this city
has recently invented and patented gold
saving machine which is destined TO revo-
lutionize placer mining. The machine is
very simple in construction, but 1t works
10 perfection, and by it's use thousands of
acres of placer ground in Montana, which
would not pay so cents a day if worked in
the old-fashioned way, can be made to
pay handsomely, The machine has been
examined by a great many experienced
mining men, and they are all enthusiastic
over its workings and possibilities. TIE
most important feature of the machine is
that it saves all of the gold, no matter
how fine it may be. Flake gold, such as
is found on tho Snake and Columbia and
other western rivers, is as easily saved as
coarse gold. With Mr.. Elliott's machine,
ground running Is cents to the yard can
be made to pay by working it on a large
scale and with favorable surroundings.
Big money can be made with ground rum
ming from % cents to 81 yard, and there
is an endless amount of such ground all
over Montana, and great deal of it is
adjacent 10 Butte.
The machide consists of three pans,
one above the other, in a substantial
frame work. A chain elevator conveys
the gravel to the upper pan, and hose
conveys tn6 WdtOT 10 the bdIHe DOlut.
Both the top and middle pans contain riff
fles. The heavy gravel is all discharged
from the upper pan by an automatic fork,
and the water and fine gravel pass through
a screen into the second pan. Here the
coarse gravel is again discharged and the
gravel passes through another screen with
the water into the third or amalgamating
pan. The concentrates are then dis
charged into a drain box with two distinct
concentrating motions, where the black
sand is caught. The gold is all saved in
the three pans, and n cleanup can be
made at any time in 20 minutes.
The machines will be made in all sizes
from a capacity of so feet up to 100 yards
a day. About one miners inch of water
is required for every 100 yards OF ground.
The machines are intended especially for
poor men and they can be put on the
market at from $500 up. A sample ma
chine with capacity of 100 yards in 10
hours has just completed test run for
the benefit of the company which Mr..
Elliott has organized. The test was made
at Toston on the Missouri river, where all
of the gold is of the fake variety, but not
wlthstanding this fact not a single color
was found in the tailings after seven
days run, although all of the dirt that
went into the machine ran from 100 TO
to 1000 colors to the pan. This test clearly
substantiated the inventors claim that
the machine will save all OF tho gold no
matter how fine or how coarse IL may be.
The test was witnessed by several experts,
all of whom pronounce the machine the
most wonderful and successful mining
invention of the age. ii. III. Mener of
Townsend was one of the experts who
witnessed the working of the machine,
and in a report on ii he says:
II have just made a careful eXamina-
nation of the Ello washer, separator,
concentrator and amalgamAtor. / have
spent considerable time and money look
ing up gold saving machines and l will
say that the Elliott is the only practical
proposition or machine that / have ever
seen. 1t is a gold saver without doubt
] have panned talings from this machine
and have never succeeded in finding n
single color. Then panned the gravel
that was being worked and found from
went into the machine. There we're no
colors went through so il is plainly APP
parent that ii saved all of the gold. l
have seen ii make runs at the rate of one
ton in three minutes, but II saved all OF
the gold just the same. One very import
ant feature is that this work was done
with one inch of water taken from 20
foot shaft, and caniplainly see that there
is no limit to the capacity of the machine
Any miner who could see the machine
work for 10 minutes would bear me out
fully in these statements. The principle
is what we all have been looking for and
the machine is bound to be a success"
Nose Manuel and w. ). James, machin-
lists at the Helena Iron works, who wit
messed the test, have also written Mr..
Elliott letters heartily endorsing his ma
chine as perfect gold saver. Mr.. Elliott
is now at work on a mill to be used IN
connection with tho machine so that
quartz can be handled as we'll as gravel.
The machine which was used in making
the test at Toston was feet high feet
wide and 1l% feet long. Some exhibition
runs will be made in the old diggings
around Butte early in the spring, and sur
prising results are promised.