The San Francisco call., 1901-10-06
GET YOUR GOLD
FROM YOUR SAND
The Method Has Been
Found to Do It
Effectively.

An appliance has just been perfected in
this city for the reclama ton of fine, -four
like and microscopic gold values contained
in deposits of auriferous sands. These
sands are found upon ocean beacAes
as we'll as in beds and upon the
promise to startle the mining world into
renewed and active quest for -gold-bearing
sands The process is the invention of
Mr. F. M Johnson. the we'll known as
sayer of San Francisco, and has been
purchased by the Rose Gold Re
clamation Company. corporation
men well known locally, for the purpose
of operating 1t and placing it upon the
market in rhis and foreign countries. The
appliance is so simple and Inexpensive in
construction and operation and does it's
work so effectively that the results seem
of the magical order rather than the ap-
pication of a principle whose simplicity
discovered and applied 1t not onty
saves the gold, but the platinum as We'll,
and does it at no greater cost than the
ordinary. expense. involved in getting the
sand and water into it.
The exterior of the invention shows a
box of the ordinary sluicing pattern, built
of one-inch boards. twelve feet in length,
twelve inches in width and five inches in
depth. The interior covered by patents
applied fOp which saves the gold and
platinum values is a matter of arrange
costing not to exceed 81 so Neither plates,
mercury nor magnets are used.
When it is stated that two to three tons
of sand per hour were run through one
of these appliances day after day, con-
secutiVely, during a trial test of about 30
days upon the beach sands at Aptos, near
Santa Cruz, Cal, and that all OF the gold
and platinum carried by the sands were
reclaimed and saved, the practical value
of the invention to the mining world be-
comes apparent The gold saved in this
toc fi11l nf
to the cent in value. In addition there
have been numerous and exhaustive tests
of sands from Nome, the Snake and Co
lumbia rivers, of the beach sands upon
the California Oregon and Washington
coasts as well as those from the Colorado
River, where the deposits are of vast ex-
tent and carry high values.
These boxes may be placed in batteries
of five, ten, twenty or more, up to any
number desired and the sand and water
may be put into them either by hand or
with mechanical applianceS-no further
expense in operation being required. They
may also be used as an adjunct to Ordi-
nary sluicing or hydraulicking operations,
with the result of saving the values in
fine gold contained in the sand concern
trates which are otherwise lost.
When it is considered that the cost of
boxes (the latter often being made avail
able by gravity) should not exceed five
cents per cubic yard of sand in cases
where the plant has a working capacity
no argument against the proposition that
deposits of auriferous sands carrying val
considered worthless may now be worked
with most satisfactory results. The field
is practically limitless not only in this
country, but, in others, and veritable
boom in sand bed values seems to, be i'm
minent. The Nome district is of demon
strated value, and there are many depos-
it's upon the Alaska coast and further
south in the vicinity of Vancouver where
large and profitable operations may be
conducted. Upon the Washington Ore
gon and California coasts are scores of
deposits that would yield handsome re-
turns, while the great Snake River and
the Colorado present fields practically in
texhaustible. The Rose Gold Reclamation
Company has opened general offices in the
Call building, this city, suite GA.