The San Francisco call., 1906-09-10
Guggenheims Pioneers
inMovenentto to Save
Drifting Gold.

A stampede to creeks that afford
favorable conditions for operating the
gold dredger Is the latest phase of
mining In the Klondike In a short
time large areas have been staked out
on Swede Creek, Kirkman Creek, All
Gold Creek. all of the Klondike River
above what are known the Boyle
concessions. all the big fiat opposite
Dawson, all the ground along the
Yukon River above Forty Mile, long
| stretches on Indian River, Lower Sui
/ phur and other streams, and also the
American streams In the vicinity have
| new stakes. showing that the dredging
| impulse is general. The Government
| ONCE Is swamped with applications.
Day and night men have been busy
! locating. Old diggings, in view of the
dredger idea, have been In demand In
every direction. Claims that were
staked out In 1897 and 1898 and that
have been forgotten ever since are
considered valuable again.
There is gold In all the old claims,
presumably. They were worked in the
early days in somewhat wasteful fash
ion and the tailings carry gold. In
some instances. under the old system,
the excess of water prevented profit
able working of the ground The
dredger process can be utilized under
all the conditions existing.
The Guggenheims have led the way
in dredging for gold in the Yukon.
According to the Fairbanks Evening
News, published in the Tanana coun-
try. the Guggenheims have taught the
miners of the north more in one year
about mining the frozen gravels than
they had learned in all the years since
they began to work along the Yukon.
So far as the Guggenheims are con-
cerned there are no more frozen
sraveis. strip the tundra reports
the News, 'and the running water does
the rest. The process has made of
frozen gravels a problem no more
serious than thawed ground"
The Importance Of this scheme to
the entire north Is inestimable. There
are hundreds of acres of iow-grade
ground I'm the Tanana country and IN
many sections that may be worked by
the gold dredging process. Uncle
Hiram pioughing through the orchard,
so reports the Fairbanks News.
| couldn't make burrows faster than
Guggenheim derdge chewing its way
through the ice into the Klondike
creeks
The gold output of the northern
country for the fiscal year ending
June 30, as recorded through the assay
Office at Seattle, amounted to $4,000
600 In round numbers. of which 81 0o0.-
600 came from the Tanana, $4,000, 600
from Nome and the remainder from
the Canadian Yukon and from various
mines in the Northwest. These figures
are supplied by the Seattle Post-In-
telligencer.
Putting Mines to Work.
The California mining news of
week include reports concerning the re-
sumption of work at several properties
h1u Ua11 hFf
one reason or another, have temporarily
| suspended operations One of these
mines is the West Point, in the Dead
wood District. in Trinity County. which
is in the region that includes the Brown
Bear, Lappin. Shafter. Gladstone and
others. The mine has been idle about
| two years
/ County near Murphys, west of Red
Gold, Will be reopened- Sinking an ad-
| ditional distance OF geo to 300 feet at
the Argonaut mine. in Amador County.
| is in progress The shaft is already
down 2490 feet
| One of the largest of the recent
projects is the openig of another cop
| per mine In Shasta County. A force
of workmen has started to open the
| Spread Eagle group ground, which is
described as adjoining the Balaklala
en- the southeast The property also has
been known as the Onn group East
ern people are concerned IN the enter
prise.
The Crystalline mine. in Tuolumne
County, will be worked once more as
/ soon as the water is pumped out The
| Sonora Union Democrat reports that
the Columbia mine, near Columbia, will
1 be sunk to twice It's present depth and
developed largely. The Three Peaks
mine. in Trinity County. is another
-
having been formed to work 1t. A
large amount Of work was performed
| by a previous company. which persisted
until its money was gone. There are
three lodges in the mine. as reported.
all bearing more or less gold.
| In the old Shasta District new devel-
| opments are reported. The Shasta
mine on Middle Creek. formerly known
as the Wiser mine; the Mascot mine,
situated a few miles west of Shasta,
and the Mountain Monarch properties
are developing.
Trinity River Bridged.
A suspension bridge will be placed
over the Trinity River 10 facilitate the
operations of the Union Hill mine, at
Douglass City, Trinity County. Forty
carloads of pipe have been ordered for
hydraulicing- This must be hauled
over the mountains from Redding- De-
lay has been caused by the inability OF
the Southern Pacinc Company to fur
nish the cars necessary to move the
pipe from Sacramento. After waiting
several weeks, according to the story
told by Welles. the supervising engi-
neer, but one carload out of forty came
to hand. 1t may be necessary to use
the Sacramento River TO move the pipe
for immediate use.
The output OF the season OF the Dead
wood Independence, Mammoth and
Harrison creeks at Circle. Alaska, Is
estimated at $25o,0oo. The output has
been cut down by the open winter OF
1Yo5-06. The most of Eagle Creek is
tied up by Berry Bros, who will dredge
The output will then grow TO large fig