The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-20
PLANS FOR MNKING AT CAPE NOME.

This may be worked day and night. and
one machine will handle from i.1D 20 5000
tons OF sand In twenty -four hours, AZ
the cable may be shifted along the 900 foot
outer standard II Will not he necessary 10
move the machine except at rare inter
walls.
c. ID. Lane has organized company TO
put In a pumping plant at cost Of si5ec,o.
The outht Will include four miles of sigh-
teen-ineh pipe, which Will carry water from
the Snake river TO an altitude OF 100 feet,
to supply the high ground of Dexter. Anvil.
Snow and other creeks with water A rail-
road viii be constructed four or ave miles
over the tundra to the creeks 20 facilitate
accessibility.
The jeffrey eievating exctyating machine
and notifications of Il Will he extensively
used These have self-anchoring capacity,
and will be used BY ships that take the
aurlferOus ballast and with centrifugal
pumps and sluiees viii be utilized on shore
edge By anchorage.
sNsq, Kinds of Rockers.
Some exceedingly novel developments 81
the ordinary rocker are being prepared ~
the small miners for work on the beach ono
Of these stands about six feet nigh. ana
ts lifted with a zlexag arrangement 81
plates. an oscilated by an eccentric The
sand Is shoveled into the top and thence
drops from plate TO plate until II anally
reaches a bottom box and thence runs o
last nearly horizontal plate, and nnally
10 tho ground. Ii ia believed that little
OF the gold can escape from this prolonged
operation. having to pass over 80 many
magnet surfaces
Another rocker. which will be OF quite
common use Viii be an osciilating affair
worked by crank, One man turns the
crank 10 operate the machine. and another
sh0vels Ia dirt as rapidly as he can. WITH
two men IN partnership using this appliance
considerable area may be handled In one
reason There viii be other machines %
varied ana novel design. al taken north Tor
the common purpose Of covering a. srsa;
an extent Of surface "a possible,
Greek mining viii also he carried on more
extensively and after an improved manuer
The facs that the ground is enly from FOUR
20 seven feet deep. HHtd bedrock is reach
ed. makes hyflaulicking comparatively
easy and Il IS said that some % The ma
chimes tina; are bcinE prepared VIII 'lesn
J thousands ~ cubic Yards % earth ta the
few weeks OF open weather.
Notwithstanding an this preparation f.r
modern mining lt ~ stated bs those NAo
have secuted the coast that there Viii be
I enough room on the beaches for all tie
/ pioneers that are expected 20 80 70 The
/ north this spring. Compared with the total
number o. prospectors there VIII. however
/ he few that will have more than The p-inl
: live rocker and other crude appliances used
bv the original workers % the beach Tf'
( kveA. number OF meu goins from tae Mid
I die states kuow littie ot mining ana wii
sollow at Nome the best methods their un-
I educated ingenuity can devise, As did shei'
/ predecessors last year. Extending eions
the shore for the hfteen or twenty miles
! where wealth Is found in the sand they
| will establish ;heir little mscaines. an.
I with shovel and pan cnaeavor 10 se' "u
| the few hundreds or thousands that seer
10 rewAr. :he efforts OF even the nost ia
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