The Arizona sentinel., 1898-03-19
GOLD GALORE,
AuriferOus Gravel of the Colorado
 River.

"Whence many bursting stream aunferot r flows"
 f For hundrends of miles along th e course of the mighty Colorado ( e the West are mammoth deposits C
 gold bearing gravel. In the Grand Boulder. Iceberg and Black canyons
 where the impact was greatest whel
 the waters that at one time coyerec
 the state of Utah broke througl chain after chain 0f mountains 9i its to.cHous way To the gulf, 8 th
 grea, beds Of gravel most noticeable h places the gravel and so.maat aty deposit is faliy one hg4drel feet ii avysA and extends 1at yac4 into the canyons deboucbing into the river. Under these deposlts is soft cement bedlo: k usually rich in coarse gold. From the mouth of the Grand Canyon, at Pierce Ferry, to Old CallvilIe, in the Big Bend, nearly all the available banks of gravel and accessible river bars have been located. Twelve miles above BonelPs Ferry at what is known as Temple Bar, the Temple Bar Consolidated Mining Company have under location several thou sand acres of immensely rich placer ground. The gravel lies back from the river on high bench sIoping downward toward 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 nuggets have been found, one nugget weighing over three ounces. A few years ago an attempt was made to work the ground by means of 8 current wheel ln the river but the machinery was crude and tbs attempt proved a oUora. A reorganization of the company took place and T J.. Dslamer the president took pers oaal charge Under his able uao1-ua. t1rlar hes been brought ..s of d.
 ot world vide reputation have sz- am.ueJ and reported lea-aole plans Co work ths grounds and already the preliminary work is almost completed. Piers have been placed lH the river near the mines and to these piers 8 cham of booms are being attached to glance food wood into a pocket in an eddy in bend in the river below. It is calculated that fully 100000 cords of wood can be compounded in this pocket, and pulled high and dry with steam wench or allowed to remain in the boom until the receding water leaves it on tbe bank. Boilers of three hundred horse power capacity are being hauled to the mines and by the first of May they will be ready to operate the big hydraulic pumps against the great masses of gravel. Machinery and supplies are being rushed to the mines that everything may be in readiness to take advantage of the first rise in the river when flood wood it is thought, sufficient to rnn the plan. for g year vii. ba csngnt. Mr. Daamar has conducted the affairs Of tao company with rare good judgment 1nd Co hlm the company wilIove their full measure Of 5uccess. should su-e.ss crown his forts.
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 .m.iar hvaea.la ulme on the nver A ie.st a.".' acres o5 placer glouadis r9a under location. and SIS it's aIl wonderfully rich a
 . will b- found -- york ... l sample of its richness was given by the Temple Bar Company last year when a twelve inch stratum of the gravel on bedrock returned $50 to the cubic yard in dry washer
 Within five years hydraulic plants will line the Colorado river from the Grand Canyon to the Needless and Mohave county will become the greatest gold producing country in the west.-X6hoUe Miner.