The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-22
ABOUT THE PLACER PLANT IN CLEBURNE Interesting Work of Searching
 for Yellow Metal GREAT FUMES ARE USEFUL Fruithurst Times Gives Description of Plant of Frank F. Taylor Situ-
 ated About Three Miles Due
 South of Fruithurst.
GREAT FUMES ARE USEFUL

Fruithurst, December 21-(Special)- Mrs. Hattie l.. Asseltine, editor of the Fruithurst Times, has again called at tention to the great mineral resources of Cleburne and in recent issues of her pa per gives some interesting data concern ing the development of the county's re- sources.
 Placer mining is receiving much atten- tion just now and one of the most com plete plants of this kind Is that of Frank F. Taylor, situated about three miles and half from F1 uithurst. concerning this the Fruithurst Times says:
 The mine is situated on the Mcdonald farm. One starts in at the un- dercurrent and dump boxes from the sluice boxes. The undercur- rent is all lined with amalga- mated copper plates, and these are cover ed with perforated steel plates 10 eaten the trash to keep it off the copper tables. The sluice boxes in which the gravel will be shoveled to wash it are three feet wide and two feet deep. The Hume for carrying the gravel from the mine to the dump is 24 by 36 inches. This Hume, too, is to catch the gold. and it is paved with square blocks of wood cut from end Of timbers and set on their ends, and they are 10 by F inches, three inches thick. This Hume for catching the gold is 300 feet long from the gravel mines to the bed rock. The cut Is one-quarter mile long, and at the Hume has many boxes in 1t at intervals for catching the gold. The cut dumps into the Tallapoosa river. These boxes are set on grade of inches to l6 feet and the cut has the same grade.
 Gravel is Deep.
 The gravel at the head of the sluice boxes is about ten feet deep and covered with loam and clay to the depth of about three feet This loam and clay also car ries small amount of gold. In years past the prospecting in this place with primitive pans and rockers has shown an average of 20 cents per cubic yard. At the slnice boxes we find little giant attached to GOO feet of l0-inch piping. This giant has a 3-inch nozzle and is six feet long and is ten inches large at base. On the mountain 150 feet higher than the bed rock, where the sluice boxes are, and a distance of one-quarter of q mile from the mine where the gravel will be shov- eled into the boxes. is a large dstribut- ing tank 12 feet by 12 feet and 24 feet deep, and attached to thls is one-quarter of mile of twelve-inch piping. This gives q pressure of 150 ft This tank is at the end of the ditch and it is six miles from the tank to the dam. The tank is so arranged that water not need ed for piping Is run through open cut down to the mine and carries the gravel down away from the end of the sluice boxes where they dump into the river.
 The extent of the gravel bed here is about 19 feet deep and the channel is about one-half mile in length.
 Plume No. 1.
 Now to leave this part of the mine, one mile from the mine is Hume No 1, on the ridge 200 feet above bed rock at the mine standing on a trestle 24 feet high and 500 feet long. All these fumes are 36 inches wide by ? feet deep. Plume No. ? is just one-quarter of a mile in length and 260 feet above bed rock a the mine, and standing on a trestle 56 feet high.
 F'lume No. is one-half mile long and 27O feet above bed rock at the mine. and standing on treste 66 feet high. Then one crosses over a short distance and sees where MT. laylor, the engineer. surprised the surveyor by seeing what he did not, anu saved the company about $1000. This is cut No. 4. It is cut through the noun tain and Is 200 feet long and 24 feet deep. No. Is one-quarter of mile in length, 2S0 feet higher than bed rock and on a trestle IS feet high and about 35O feet higher than where the tailings are dump ed into the river at the mine.
 Plume No. , is called the railroad Hume. as the railroad constructed by the Van derbt Timber and Mineral Railroad com pany goes under it here. and right here is where the railroad company is to start a little town called Tumlin.
 Plume No. Is three-quarters of mile in length. g feet high and 290 feet above bed rock at mine. The dam is where the hardest work of all was done. as all the ditch was rock. and it all hald to he blasted out of the rock for one and a half miles Then the company had to take up one-half mile of the county road and build another road for the county in another place. This dam is 900 fet across from one bank f the canyon to the other bank and 4t.z on