The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-19
Side View Bennett AaIgamator Dumping Hopper

will result from actual practical work
ing of the machine.
I'm the beginning gold was first pick
ed up by some ancient and on account
of it's weight, color, ductility, maleabii-
ity, scarcity, etc, it, along with Its
natural partner, silver, became used
first for ornaments, then for barter.
Placer gold was the first used and
mined, for the reason that in those
days the drill, hammer and dynamite
was not dreamed of. 1t being the east
est to obtain because of it's gravity. 1t
was the worlds supply of gold up to
about 800 years ago, when the first
rock mining commenced along the
western base of the Ural mountains in
Europe.
THE first placer gold mining in the
United States on the Atlantic coast
was less than 100 years ago, and was
done along the Appalachian range
through Virginia, Carolina and Geor-
gia. But the first gold mining ever
done in any part of the United States
! was done by the early Spaniard about
| the year 1550-a decade after the con-
quest of the Santa Fe country. AS to
exact dates it is not now known, but
about that time the Spaniards mined,
with Indian captives in the Jiccarillos,
Cimmaron and the Manzanares, in New
Mexico, over two centuries ago. The
Spaniards from the Santa F'e country
during their incursions north and west
from Santa Fe, and before they had
| discovered Este Laguna Salada Grande
! (the Great Salt Lake. mined orc fino
on the Colorado river, in Utah, and
above its confluence with the San Juan.
The placer gold supply from the Colo
RADIO basin under the SDaniards is
clouded by so much tradition that data
is impossible to reach, but is supposed
from the best infornra ton obtainable to
have been small, as they worked with
the most crude appliances, a wooden
bowl or gold pan, called batia and
the most expert 'panner' could not have
treated over one cubic yard a day
They did with the poems and Indian
slaves good deal of work, fifty cents
a day and even less being satisfactory
to them.
'In Carbarrus county, North Caro-
lima, in 1803 British soldier by the
name of John Reed, who settled on
Meadow Creek during the revolution,
picked out of that stream a 2S-pound
nugget, and carried it home, where it
was used to hold open the DOORS Reeds
wife induced him to carry it to Fay
etteville. jeweler sent Mrs Reed a
Calco dress and two pounds of coffee
Tor it. and it is claimed there
that it was the first discov-
cry Oh gold IN the United States.
Coarse gold is easily saved by the
most ordinary sluice and caught by
any kind of rifle, but fine river and
flower gold is more difficult to save
quicksilver being largely used where
conditions are Favorable, but the
placer miner is often beset with great
dlfhculty when using quicksilver, the
gold often being corroded with mineral
substances and the slightest oily ma
ture of the water fouls the quicksilver
and gold is lost. The grizzly and
burlap gives the best satisfaction
where the conditions are against the
use of quicksilver
The treatment of the gravel by the
Bennett machine is certainly complete
A careful examination of it last Fri.
day while in operation conciusively
demonstrated that the gravel going
into the great hopper at the rate OF
212 cubic yards per minute passed into
the big revolving screen where every
boulder, gravel and all the gold is
thoroughly secured, washed and clean
ed, and the concentrates pass into the
most elaborate amalgamator that wa:
ever constructed by human hands ant
brains. One ton of copper plate.
plated with silver and charged will
quicksilver, scientifically arranged
with innumerable pockets of quick il
ready to receive the finest gold tina
exists. A number of water jets enter
ing the amalgamator from the bottom
agitates the water and concentrates il
such a manner that all gold which
does not secrete in the pockets, il
forced against the plates about ZOO
times before the rest of the concen
trates passes away, thus rendering il
impossible to lose any gold no matte
how fine.
"a hard wind, dust and sand storm
was raging during our visit and tn,
plant was working at great disadvant
age, but by actual time the grea
shovel handled about 21a cubic yard
per minute of dirt worth from 10 to 2
cents a yard by pan tests and tn
amalgamator will get more than that
Ten millions of cubic yards lie in on
body on the Tickaboo Bar ON the Colo
RADIO river worth 81 per yard, and tn
Bennett machine could sack up dus
fast at the rate of two or three yard
per minute, with ample water power t
generate the electricity.
1.-THE Bennett plant means grea
deal for the almost endless gold bearing
gravel along the streams of the grea
Colorado basin in Utah It is the mos
stupendous and elaborte machine 70
PAGER mining ever built. Too niue
praise for the brain, energy. enthusiasm
and success of Mr.. e. S. Bennett ca.
not be accorded, for he is safely place
along side of the great benefactors o
the worlds treasures"
| NOT A, STOCK COMPANY.
AS previously announced by The Her
: aid the South Park Mining company
and its promoters, who are so cour.
ageously handling the enterprise on the
Green river bars are in no way engaged
in selling stock to carry on operations
, Nothing but cold cash is behind it
and they have come to Utah simply
to extract gold from the bars thai
abound along that river. This shows
that the people behind it have conf
dence in the new method as described.
NUMBER OF MACHINES ORDERED
Mr.. E. S. Bennett, the inventor, has