The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-24
AT TEMPLE BAR.
Work being Vigorously Pushed-Ex-
pected to Operate by May ist.-lt
viii Determine Hydraulic Min
ing on the Colorado.

Will Determine 1fuFduiC WiHl-
ing on the Colorado.
The Temple Bar Consolidated
Mining Company expects this year
10 accomplish the work which the
unprecedentedly high water OF last
wear rendered impossible. A sue
cessful termination to the enterprise
will establish a new phase of gold
mining in Lincoln County as most
of the Company's claims lie on this
side of the river.
Kingman, Arizona is the nearest
shipping point. The last issue of the
Mohave Miner has the following
article relative to the Company's op-
Grafton:
For hundreds of miles along the
course of the mighty Colorado of the
West are mammoth deposits of gold
bearing gravel. In the Grand, Boul-
der. Iceberg and Black canyons.
where the impact was greatest when
the waters at one time covered the
state of Utah broke through chain
after chain of mountains on its tor
tuous way to the gulf, is the great
bed of gravel most noticeable. In
places the gravel and sedimentary
deposit is fully one hundred feet in
depth and extends far back into the
canyons debouching into the river.
Under these deposits is a soft cement
bedrock usually rich in course gold.
From the mouth of the Grand Can
yon, at Pierce Ferry, to Old Call.
vile, in the Big Bend, nearly all the
available banks of gravel and access
sible river bars have been located.
Twelve miles above Bonelli's Ferry
at what is known as Temple, the
Temple Bar Consolidated Mining
Company have under location several
thousand acres of immensely rich
placer ground The gravel lies back
from the river on high bench slop-
ing downwards towards the stream.
In places the deposit is fifty or
sixty feet in depth and carrying gold
from top to bottom. On bedrock
coarse gold and nugget have been
found, one nuggets weighing over
three ounces. A few years ago au
attempt was made to wo. K the ground
by means of a current wheel in the
river but the machinery was crude
and the attempt proved failure. A
reorganization of the company took
place and H. j Delamer, the pres
ident, took personal charge. I'm
der his able management order has
been brought out of chaos. Hy-
draulic engineers of world wide re
putation have examined and report
ed feasible plans to work the
grounds and already the preliminary
work is almost completed. Piers
have been placed in the river neal
the mines and to these piers chair
of boom are being attached to glance
food wood into pocket in an eddy
in bend of the river below 1t is cal
culated the fully 100000 cords o
wood can be empounded in this poe
ket, and pulled high and dry with
steam wench or allowed to remain il
the boom until the receding waite
leaves it on the bank Boilers o
three hundred horse power capacit.
are being hauled to tie mines ant
by the first of May they will be read
to operate the big hydraulic pumps
against the great masses of gravel
Machinery and supplies are beini
rushed to the mines that everythin
may be in readiness to take advar
tage of the first rise in the river whe
food wood it is thought sufficient t
run the plant for year will /
caught Mr.. Delamer has conduc
ed the affairs of the company wit
are good ia lgment and to him th
company will owe their full measul
of success crown his efforts.
Upon the success of this plant wi
depend the installation of many sin
liar hydraulic plants on the river.
least 80, 900 acres of placer groun
is now under location, and as it u
wonderfully rich a way will be four
to work it. A sample of its richne
was given by the Temple Bar Cor
pany last year when twelve inc
stratum of the gravel on bedrock r
turned $50 to the cubic yard in d
washer. Within five years hydraul
plants will line the Colorado riv
from the Grand Canyon to the Nee
les and Mohave county will becon
the greatest gold producing count
IN the west