Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-06-09
LOOKING FOR
PLACERS
Wisconsin Men Who Desire to
Test a New Concentrator and
Dredge in New Mexico.
LITTLE WATER NEEDED
The Machine Is Apparently a Success;
and Should Be Certain
Money Maker

f. B. Phillips and G.. Seberg. of Ra-
cine. Wisconsin, spent several days in
the city. posting themselves upon the
whereabouts and formations of the
gold placer sections of the Territory.
They are experienced miners and are
members OF company organized in
Racine, which has manufactured an
improved machine to work gold Dlac-
ers. The name of the company is the
Racine Concentrating Mining and Man
ufacturing Company. They called at
the office of the Bureau of immigration
where considerable information con-
cerning the placer deposits in New
Mexico was furnished them. They ex-
pect to visit southern Santa Fe Coun-
ty, Taos, Rio Arriba, Lincoln, Sierra
and Otero Counties to make a careful
and exhaustive inspection of the plac
er deposits in these counties They
left this morning for the Ortiz land
giant and the Golden and San Pedro
mining camps in southern Santa Fe
County to commence their inspection.
The following is description of the
Racine Concentrate Dredge and Separ-
ator:
The weight of the dredge is six
tons. The working capacity is one
yard every two and one-half minutes.
The working capacity or the strain
which diggers can stand is 10000
pounds. The concentrator of this ma
chine will hold and save the finest par
ticles of gold. The machine contains
two tanks, diggers or dredges, the dig
gers working on an endless chain
which contains 40 steel buckets, the
links of said chain being steel. The
tanks of said machine are in sections
and no section of tank or machine is
so heavy but that it could be carried
across the country on burros. The dig
gers Of the machine empty into griz-
zly which revolves, separating the
el emptying into the second tank
where revolving shovels lift it up and
on a failing dump. The fine gravel
containing gold will go through a cir
cular or spiral sluice which is 40 feet
long, IS inches wide and IL inches
high, all sides being enclosed This
sluice is sectional each section hay-
ing a cover which is screwed down on
sacking until water tight In this spir-
al sluice are wings which divide the
current so that the bottom of every
section comes in contact with what
passes through it. In the bottom or
end of the sluice is a centrifugal pump
which creates the current and raises
the gravel into tank No. 2, where the
coarse gravel had been emptied. The
sand or gravel in tank No. 2, is fed up
by ribbon conveyor which will raise
it up to the shovels, the shovels will
lift it uD and out of the water and in
to the tailings. The machine when
standing still, including the spiral
sluice is water tight to the water level
in the tanks. When the machine is
put in motion, the centrifugal pump
creates the current in the different
tanks and sluice box. This pump can
be controlled SO that any desired cur
rent can be had to suit the conditions
Of the ground or kind of gold desired
to be worked. The tanks are made of
boiler plate. The transmission OF
power is by warranted steel link
chains. The advantage of this machine
is that it works where there is scar
city OF water. The steady flow from a
one inch pipe is sufficient to work this
machine. The only loss of water that
will be experienced is what is absorbed
by the gravel passing through it.
Messrs. Philips and Seberg informed
the New Mexican that the machine
had been thoroughly tested in actual
working in different localities and that
it was a success in every respect. The
process is simple and economical: the
machine does not easily get out Of Or
der and has stood the test of hard and
practical experiments. If the grounds
it. they are sure they can go
to the expense of conveying the small
amount of water needed for the ma
chine in pipes for distance of three
miles and then make money. No mat
ter how fine the placer gold in the
gravel is, the machine will save it, as
has been fully demonstrated. The
amount Of water necessary to run it
is very small. They be-
lieve that they will be able to find suit
able conditions in some of the placer
sections of the Territory for the con-
centrating machine and ii so. they will
put one or more to work, as rapidly as
they can get them into New Mexico.