The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1904-01-29
A STRANGE PROCEEDING.
An Unjust Attack Upon a Home
Industry.

The editor of the COURIER is aston
ished at the attacks made in the last
few weeks upon the Carson river plac-
err mines. The mines are known to
be both rich and extensive.
Gold is found every foot of the way
along the river for thirty miles. This
fact is well known and admitted by ALL
Chinese miners and others have work
ed the mines in years past for months
at time, taking out considerable
quantities of fine gold with sluice-
boxes. Twenty or thirty Chinese min
ers were driven off the river years ago
because the white people thought they
were taking out too much gold. In
early days a couple of white miners
struck rich bed of gravel this side of
Horshoe Bend and took out over 81, 900
in few days.
From the above showing the ground
would appear to be all right, but here
is still better showing:
During the past year, the gravel
beds of the Carson river have been ex-
amined and tested for miles, Holes
have been put down to the bedrock
and the gravel taken out, weighed and
washed. 1t is from 3 to 7 feet to bed
rock. A foot or more of the surface
dirt carries but little gold; below that
the lowest test made was 81 per ton,
and from the bedrock the returns
were So. 1t is calculated that the en-
tire mass, including the surface dirt,
will average 81 per ton.
1t has been demonstrated that the
gold is there, and in every foot of the
gravel for more than score of miles
along the river. This fact has re-
manned unquestioned for years by all
, who have examined the stream, and
many prospectors have hunted in the
mountains above for a ledge from
which it was supposed the gold washed
down.
. Previous to the past summer some
doubt existed as to whether the gold
in the gravel beds could be saved, but
the Evans elevator did the work.
Nine hundred tons of gravel yielded
SS96.75. Only one cleanup was made
, before winter set in. The run was
slow and tedious, as is usually the case
with any new undertaking; the ma
chinery was imperfect and there wasn't
, enough of it; they had only one giant
and should of had three, and they
lacked power to operate the plant to
its full capacity. The ditch should
, have been extended a mile further
3: down the river and operations begun
at the lower end of the property in
( stead of the upper end. This would
e have given them nearly 100 feet more
r fall, and increased the power and
effectiveness of the plant immensely.
/. But the trial run satisfied the own
ers that the Evans elevator would
T, save the gold. That was what it was
: made for, and the owners were de-
I lighted with the result. Eastern stock
= holders, who were here to witness the
e trial run, were excited and gleeful,
: threw their hats in the air and declar-
r ed necessary funds to equip and oper-
ate the plant would be provided.
Since then additional giants and
other needed machinery have been
ordered.
r The same kind of machinery, the
f Evans hydraulic elevator, similarly
equipped, has been in successful OPP
| Grafton in California and other States
for years. 1t is manufactured by the
f Risdon Iron Works of San Francisco,
8 one of the largest and wealthiest firms
on the coast, who guarantee it to hand
lie and wash gravel at cost of eight
cents per ton.
So it will be seen that the Carson
/ river gravel mines give every promise
} of yielding good returns and benefit
}. ting the entire western part of the
: State.
= AS previously stated, it is surprising
that any one living in Nevada would
attack so promising an industry, for
all of the above facts were published
in the COURIER during the past sum-
mer. OF course the Nevada Co.,
: which owns the only plant on the
river, knows what it is doing and can
not be talked out of the value of it's
property; but there are several other
companies organizing in the East, in
, cities where the Nevada papers have
! some circulation, owing to the interest
taken in the placer mines, who should
!. not be discouraged by evil reports.
r At least two of these companies have
been partially financed, one, it is stated
, already has $4,000 in its treasury.
Should the board of directors take
fright and not spend this money on
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