, 1906-08-01
BIG COLD
IN SANDS
SAMPLE TESTED BY DOCTOR DAY
OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CON-
TAINs NEARLY $500.
Half Pound Selected from What is Be-
lieved to Be Below Medium Sent
to Great Authority, Who Found
$3.50 in Gold, Thirty Per Cent Mag
netic Iron and Much Hematite.

Judge NJ. N. Grant of the police court,
who is largely interested in the Doug
las Consolidated Placer Mining com
pany, now carrying on the develop
ment of the placer fields of Douglas
creek, was quite a good deal Interested
in a letter he received this morning,
written by DR.. David T. Day, chief Of
division of the United States geologi-
cal survey, department of the interior,
written from Portland, Ore, on the
18th of July, to Frank C. Bevans of
Cheyenne, The letter contained the
result of examinations Mr.. Day had
made OF half a pound of the black sand
from the Albany placer fields, in which
Mr. Bevans and others are interested.
Not the Best Sample.
The sample was gathered at random
from what is known as Rim rock, one
section of the 1886 acres of placer
lands owned by Mr.. Beyans' company,
and, according to Judge Grant, who
was familiar with the matter, does not
represent the real value Of the sands
of that field. DR.. Day found that the
sample contained gold representing
37.77 ounces to the ton, If the value
of $7S0.71, besides 80 per cent of mag
netic iron and "a per cent of hematite.
These latter, it is claimed, can be sep
arated in a paying way to add to the
value of the sand. DR.. Day said moth
ing of the platinum Judge Grant
knows exists in the sands.
Thousands of Acres.
Speaking of the matter this norm
ing, Judge Grant says he placers
from which this sample was sent are
about eight miles above the placers of
the Douglas Consolidated company and
that there are thousands Of acres of
such claims on Dougias Seek, Judge
Grants company itself having 1000
acres. The sands sent as a sample
were taken from the placers and wash
ed free from dirt and as much of the
other matter as was taken t o be value
less. None of the gold bearing sand
was washed out. The sample did not
REPRESENT the best of the field, INT did
not even represent what experienced
placer miners believed the average of
the sands. 1t was taken to represent
the lowest in value and the result OF
the test is all the more gratifying.
Costs But a Trifie.
Judge Grant says that to separate
the gold from the sand requires an ex-
penditure of not to exceed Is cents
per cubic yard, a yard being equiva-
lent to a ton and a half OIL gravel. The
gold is separated by washing, leaving
the sand with its large percentage of
iron and a small percentage of plati-
mum, which can be separated by other
processes not much more expensive.
The plant now being installed by the
Douglas Consolidated company is de-
signed to bring. gold out of the sand,
and it is estimated that if all the dirt
pans out as has the sample tested by
DR.. Day, not less than from S15,000,O 900
to $40, 600, 900 will be cleaned up before
the Douglas creek field is exhausted.
Many Claims owned.
If gold exists in the Albany placers,
there is no reason that it does not ex-
list in the wash eight miles below. Be
tween these two claims are the Lopez,
Gramm and a half dozen other claims,
all of which have been explored to a
certain extent and gold found to ex-
list in what is believed to be paying
quantities.