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The Washington times., 1906-02-04
The Gold Dredne

The great problem has been not so
much how or where to discover new
placers as how to discover a process
whereby the known piacers might be
worked at profit. This process has,
at last, been discovered. IT is the
dredge.
The gold dredge VS. used on the
Magdalena river. Colombia, some
twenty years ago. Later, it was i'm
proved and used successfully in New
Zealand. IN California. it was
brought TO still higher perfection.
Now a dozen machine shops scatter
ed over the United States are striv-
ing each to put forth the most per-
feet machine.
And now as to the machine itself.
This can best be studied from the
accompanying cuts, reproduced by
the courtesy of the publishers of the
Engineering Magazine and Alexander
Del Mar, who, in the July number Of
that periodical. published a most in
teresting article on the Gold Ships
and Their CaTgOes.
The dredge, or gold ship" is a
barge-like affair, commonplace look
ing enough, bearing smokestacks
alOft and thTusting a carrier of
debris out behind. Mr.. Del Mar
succinctly describes the machine In
the following language:
''The gold dredge consists, first,
of a wooden scow, so or 100 feet
long. 80 feet wide, and or feet
deep; second, of a medal upright
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gold by first constructing little
reservoir, leaving the same to be
filled by rains; then turning the
water loose to wash the gold bear
ing gravel down rock sluice. Dur
ing the census of 1903 there was
found in Arizona a placer field of
1000 acres. divided into numerous
claims where not only was all the
work done by hand. but even the
water was hauled or packed for a
distance of six or eight miles.
The beginning of gold mining in
the United States dates back TO the
first quarter of the nineteenth cen
tury, when some placer mining was
done in South Carolina and Georgia.
The settlers worked at odd mo-
ments, singly or in small gangs,
giving to mining such time as they
could spare from their other occu-
pations. The workings were large
ly executed by slave labor and we're
confined chiefly to surface min ng.
The gold pan, the long tom, the
rocker, and the pick ard shovel, con-
stituted the miners outfit These
simple methods still survive where
plaCeTs are worked by miners with
practically no capita and without
hired labor. 1t may be fairly esti-
mated that most Of the placer gold
mined in the Western States and
Alaska is produced in this time-hon-
oreo fashion.
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Primitive Gold Mininq Methods

These placers, l have said. are
widely scattered. Gold" says Alex
ander Del Mar. the worlds highest
authority on precious metals, lis the
most widely diffused Of all the
metals. There are N California
hundreds of square miles-yes. miles
of auriferons, or golden. placers.
which hitherto have been worked
only by hand, or else. being too
poor to work by hand, while the
hydraulic process was practically
forbidden by the supreme court,
have not been worked at all. They
contain from TO 25 cents in gold
10 the cubic yard oregon, Wash
ingtOn, British Columbia, and Alas
ka possess other auriferons; so do
Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and
Costa Rica; so also do Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru, and Chile, especially
Peru. I say nothing or Colorado. Ida
no, and the other placer fields of
Western America. Rich as many Of
them are. they are relatively unim-
Oortant. Greater In extent and rich
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frame or gantry. and two side gan
tries. erected upon the deck, all of
steel and carrying the tumbler and
counter shafts; third, of "a series Of
iron buckets, Tipped with steel, re-
yoIving upon a digging ladder or
girder. which can be so adjusted
that the buckets viii attack the
gravel bank AT any desired altitude
within its range-thirty feet or more
below water level-aud carry the
gravel up to the grizzlies and
screens, fourth. of a series of griz-
zlies and screens 10 sift the gravel;
fifth. of a series of sluice boxes,
tables. rifles. and undercurrents,
supplied with quicksilver, TO wash
the gravel and seize and detain the
gold. sixth, of an elevator or stack
ing girder, which carries of the
stones and coarse material directly
and the finer after they have been
divested Of their precious burden.
depositing the entire lot of tailings
thirty feet above water level; sew
enth, of two centrifugal pumps, de-
livering 1000 gallons of water per
minute into the screens and boxes;
and, eighth, of appropriate steam or
electrical machinery to perform the
entire work and keep the dredge
moving onto the bank until it is en-
tirely worked
The Washington times., 1906-02-04

HE victory of the gold
standard, we are told, set
tied the money question
forever. Has it ever oc-
Cured to you that in the
very completeness of the gold victory
lies a peril for the gold policy. and
that the money question may again
be forced upon us at an early day?
After us the deluge," said Louis
XIV to PompadOur
But the next deluge may come not
after" us, but in our own time. The
vision Louis XIV foresaw was a del
uge of poverty, revolution. and
bloodshed. 1t came, and on schedule
time-in 1888
The deluge which, apparently, is
ahead of us is a deluge of gold Gold
for which men have ravished the
earth, given their lives and their
souls. The mythical Midas wished
that whatever he touched might turn
10 gold. Philosophers have burned
the midnight oil seeking the Uni
yersal Solvent" at whose magic
touch the wish of Midas might be
fulfilled for the race and common
substances be transformed into gilt
tering coin. the well-nigh universal
medium of exchange.
Gold is coming. Let him who
doubts look at the facts.
The official figures show that from
1889 to 1892 the gold production in
the United States was stationary
Then il began to increase. By leaps
and bounds it went forward from
$33, 900 900 in 1882 to more than $79,-
0O0, 900 in 1900. The next three years
witnessed fluctuations, with a drop
in 1903 to about seventy-three and
one-half millions. But the check was
only mOmentary. The gold cropis now
booming again, having reached, in
1904, for the United States alone
more than sSO,00O,OOO. Yet the
actuality, when compared with the
possibffity-even the probabilities
mild.
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Congress, State Legislatures, and
courts.
In the last twenty-five years placer
mining has been on the decline The
census report shows that while the
number of fine ounces of gold thus
mined in 1880 was 5S0,766 this num-
ber shrunk by 1902 to $50, 1897. But
for the discoveries in Alaska the
shrinkage would have been much
greater, that Territory alone furnish
ing more than one-half the total
placer product in 1902, and increas-
ing it's own product from 288 ounces
in 1880 to 276,554 in 1902.
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profit of SO 1-3 per cent Actual
figures are given for a case in
which the yield was 20 cents per
cubic yard and the profit was about
128 per cent on the capital in
vested. With capital seeking invest
ment at per cent, 3 per cent, : Ter
cent, and even less, we may eXpeel
it to go after the placers with the
gold dredge as a hen goes aft
grain of corn.
And what viii the harvest be?
In the ninety years ending in 1900
slave labor extracted from the placer5
Of Brazil. $4,000 .vGJ IN gold. IN
the thirty years following the G.I-
covery of gold in California in 184S,
$3.50. .O0O, 600 were produced from this
field by the rude methods then in
vogue. TwenUy-seyen years follow
ing 1851 saw $500, 900, 600 taken from
the placers of Australia, chiefly by
hand labor In the three-quarters Of
a century following 1850 Russia pro-
duced 81 800 GOO. 900 in gold.
And practically all this was done
by the use of the primitive methods
first described. What may we expect
with the dredges at work? OF these
the machine shops ere turning out
about one per week Scys Mr.. Del
Mar: "In the course Of a few years
it will be one per diem; in ten years
it will probably be ten machines per
diem. When this takes place, and
perhaps before it, the worlds pro-
duction of gold, even should the
cgartz mines yield no more than at
present. viii be $1,000 600 a day.
The world is not only going TO be
saturated with gold; it is going to
be nauseated.
And what of the effect?
If only this gold were coming to
all of us, and if. when We got il, We
could eat il and wear It and shelter
ourselves with It, Ebw roseate would
be the future!
But it isu't coming TO all of US, but
only to a few OF Is, VINO get into the
field with our dredges. Again, even
though we all got it, what could We
Continued on Page Four. This Section.)
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- HE victory of the gold
standard, we are told. set
tied the money question
forever. Has il ever oc-
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20
The CAKES TIMES.
A CONTINUATION or the oAke. RrpvsL,cAn
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While national issues may have played
some part in the result, it is likely that
the state issues were those upon which
the vote was cast, one way or the
other. So that the reduced Republican
plurality is due to state issue which has
proven perplexing one in every state
in which there has been a prohibitory
law. In the congressional election,
Congressman Littlefeld was bitterly
opposed by Samuel Gompers, of the
Federation of Labor. It is not sur
prising that Littlefeld's plurality was
reduced. Labor is sensitive thing to
what it considers any neglect or inva-
sion of it's rights and it is not to be
wondered at that Gompers should
change votes among the laboring
classes with an appeal to their pre-
JUDGES, unstatesmanlike as such a
course may be.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20
ELLENDALE.
From the Leader.


Born to Mr.. and Mrs. James Wallace,
of Silver Leaf, Thursday, September
6, 1906, a daughter.
The people of Forbes will erect a
Methodist church in that town i'm
mediately.
Mrs. M. F. Merchant and Miss June
who have been spending the summer
with relatives in Rockford, Illinois,
returned home Saturday.
R. S. Walton and children who have
been visiting brother Frank and family
took their departure Monday for their
home in Easton, Wisconsin.
Nine car loads of stock were shipped
out of Glendale last Saturday. This
represents about $1,000 worth of what
would have been waste grass and hay
without them, and not very burden
some amount of labor to get it.
E. F. Dunton returned home Sunday
morning after a few days. visit with
his brother, Ed. and family at AMMAN
dale, Minnesota, and the state fair.
Miss Imogene and Master Mauriel who
have been spending the month at An
nandale returned with him.
The First National Bank Building is
nearing completion and will soon be
ready for business. It is building
that those interested in its construction
may we'll feel proud of and credit to
our city.
Miss Mary Pennington, accompanied
by Miss Skundberg who will visit Ell
lendale friends for short time arrived
home from the twin cities Tuesday.
Miss Pennington will attend the state
University this year and Miss Skund.
berg will teach in the Valley City
Normal.
N. B. Brown while visiting his old
home in New York recently, purchased
a farm near Enfield and about six miles
from Ithica. He will sell his place ant
return to his native state to spend tht
last years of his life. Mr.. and Mrs
Brown and family are pioneers here
whom every one will regret to hav.
leave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Robertson hav,
disposed of their real estate Interest,"
here and will return to California
Mr.. Robertson left last Saturday even
. ing and as soon as he prepares hom'
Mrs. Robertson will follow. We regre
this worthy; old couple have decided t
leave us, but wish their lives may b,
spared to enjoy many happy days il
their California home.
The meeting which was called b,
some of the Democrats to consider tn
advisability of nominating count
ticket was not attended as was ex
pected. In view Of the light attendanc
the few present decided to call a mas
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20

convention soon. We understand that
but two candidates have been decided
upon as yet, they being F. L. Walker
for representative and C. G. Misfeldt
auditor.
Tuesday, September II, 1906, in the
presence of a few witnesses, Judge
George H. Keyes officiating, Miss Anna
Hagen and Mr.. Peter Begin, were
united in marriage. The young couple
are residents of Silver Leaf. The
Leader extends its congratulations and
we'll wishes to Mr.. and Mrs. Begin for
happy welded life.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20
LeRlslatlYe

For Representatives 25th District
c. B. ANDRUS Of j. r. Valley.
GEORGE ROSE of Glendale.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20

There were two issues in the Maine
election that had to do with the result
in great degree, says the Bismarck
Tribune. The Republican candidate
for governor was chosen by reduced
plurality upon a platform whose chief
issue was the continuance of the prohi-
bition law. His Democratic opponent
polled one of the largest votes in the
history of the state on the Democratic
side, upon a platform calling for a
resubmission of the prohibitory law.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20

Huron Huronite: Mr.. Bryan has put
the Democratic congressional campaign
committee out of business. For the
past two months this committee has
had headquarters at Washington and
have been operating quite an Office
force. Friday the office force was dis
missed and the doors closed and the
blinds pulled down. This action is the
direct result of Mr.. Bryan's recent
declarations in favor of government
ownership of railroads. The public
pulse has already responded to Mr..
Bryan and the reply is such as to dis
courage the Democratic campaign COM
mittee and cause them to give up the
attempt to elect enough congressman
to change the political complexion of
the next house Of representatives. Mr.
Bryan is a great man, but he is not
great enough to unite the Democratic
party. Three months ago it looked as
though he might be the unanimous
choice of his party for president and
that he might be elected. Today it
looks as if he could only be nominated
after the end of bitter fight and that
he could not possibly be elected. What
the situation will be at the time of the
convention can only be conjectured.
In the meantime the Republicans will
outline policy and pick out a man for
the presidency and appeal to the in
telligence of the voters with the same
old result. Four more years of pros
perity.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Try Now the Ways of Yore and See
How You Like Them.

How You Like Them.
Good old times, says the San Antonio
Light, are delusion and snare, and
the man who sighs for them has little
conception of what they We're. Return
to them, would you? Then rise on a
cold morning and wash at the pump,
pull on a pair of rawhide boots that
rival tin can in stiffness, pull on a
woolen shirt over your back and sit
down to a bare meal with your three
legged stool dancing around on a split
slab floor, eat corn pone. and bacon
for steady diet and labor fourteen
hours out of twenty-four. Go without
daily paper, fly screen, mosquito
bar, spring mattress, q kerosene
lamp, geehaw your oxen to market
and sit on the floor Of an OK cart as
you wend your way to church or a
frolic. Parch corn and peas for coffee
and sassafras for tea and see how you
like 1t.
The old days are looked backward to
affectionately, says the Galveston
News, because they were the days Of
our youth, of bounding blood and sup
pie joints, the days Of hope and the
days of love and laughter and song,
The days Of the present will be the
good old days of the coming generation
and will be regarded by our successors
as rather crude in customs and harsh
in many ways, yet withal not to be de
spised. The progressives Of our age
are the mossbacks Of later eras. Fifty
years hence we will be accounted as
slow and immature as we now regard
those Of half a century ago.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20
THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1906
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

Congressional.
For Members Of Congress
T. F. MARSHALL of Dickey,
A. j. GRONNA Of Nelson.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20

The Democrats are very gleeful over
the pulling down of the big Republican
majority in Maine. But a study Of the
political issue in the campaign just
ended in that state will show that the
Democrats had very little to do with
the results. The Democrats are trying
to encourage themselves for the Novem-
ber elections.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20
Back to dear old Lincoln, Neb. That
S where Billy always ends.

Mr.. O'Bryan butted into Illinois
politics too hard. That fellow, O'Sul-
livan, he tackled down there is some
thing of an Irishman himself-and
Billy will be sorry he ever went away
from home for scrap.
The Oakes times., 1906-09-20
Official Paper City Of oak., and County Of Dicks,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY

Entered as second-class matter January 25,
under the Act of Congress Of March 8, 1879.
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State.
For Justices of Supreme Court
D; 2: MORGAN, Ramsey, six years.
~ Z. Y. sARLEs of rraill.
r. s. LEWIS Of Cass.
For Secretary Of State
ALFRED BLAIsDELL of Ward.
Il. L. HOLMES of Pembina.
ALBERT PETERSON of Sargent.
For AttH!1sy 2. +! MsCSE SsgS5sid d Foster.
For Commissioner of Insurance
E. c. COOPER Of Grand Forks.
For suPs q T. PSS5is IRztsqftiSn i, walsh
For Commissioner Of Agriculture-
C:s. DEIsEM Of LaMoure.
sIMGK ERiGK STAENE WA5TR2 Of d, RjGhland. R;a4as
Legislative.
For Representatives 25th District
GE6RAr e =; ANpRUS RUs, OF q :: RI r; Valley.
County.
For Sheriff
j. c. DREW Of Keystone.
f0f i'easHss!L HANS LEE of oakes.
For Auditor
a. W. EYGABRoAD Of Elm.
For Register Of Deeds
For Clerk of Court
j. E. BAKER OF Lowell.
For States Attorney
E. E. CASSELS of Glendale.
For County Judge
GEO. h. FAY Of Cakes.
For Superintendent of Schools
G. NJ. LOWELL of Glendale.
For County Commissioner End Dist.
R E. GRIFFIN of Elm.
For County Commissioner Sd Dist
E. F.STEVENS of ]. r. Valley.
For County Commissioner 4th Dist
G. w. SULLIVAN of Merricourt.
b. S. HODGES Of Glendale.
For Justices of the Peace
THOS. SEXTON of Ellendale.
J. r. HIGGINS OF Keystone.
3. s. KINGSLEY of Porter.
C. E. KNOX of Bare Creek.
For Constables-
GUY REAMS of keystone.
JOHN WIRCH of Spring Valley.
WIN. MARKS of Lowell.
w. r. SINGLETON of j. R. Valley.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
SHRlNERS PLAN
COUNTRY CLUB
AL MALAlkAH TEMPLE TO ERECT
MAGNIFICENT HOUSE
Architects Submit Plans for Elaborate
Country Quarters, Which Will
Be Located Between LosyAn-
eeles and the Sea

Somewhere between Los Angeles
Venice and Ocean Park soon will b,
commenced one of the most elaborat,
club houses in the United States.
The promoters of this project ar,
the ever ambitious members of 4
Malaikah temple, Order of the Mystic
Shrine. AL Malaikah temple is knowr
the world over as a generous enter.
tainer, and in the proposed club house
which will cost about 800, 1000, it vii
sustain its already high record fol
doing things"
Potentate NJ. II. Flint, while on his
eastern trip, prolonged his visit i'm or
der to study the modes of architecture
of the various club houses. 1t is un-
derstood that extensive plans have
been submitted by a local firm of archi-
tects and that the 100 Shriners soon
will be invited to take shares at $1OO
each.
AS the membership of AL Malaikah
is expected to be over 200 within the
coming year the proposition of enter
tanning its members and friends has
been a serious one for some time, but
with the completion of AL Malaikah
club house all this will be changed.
The building is expected to cost
about $50 900. 1t will be two stories in
height, of frame construction. There
will be a large auditorium, galleries,
dining and reception rooms. The audi
torium will be 7OX95, with a large stage
and pipe organ in the gallery. There
also will be private dining rooms, re-
ception, card, billiard and other rooms,
which will be grouped on the terrace.
Bachelor apartments will be on the
second floor and large banquet hall,
S5x125 feet, will be arranged in the
basement
outdoor sports will be cared for and
the grounds will be laid out by land
scape gardener. II is expected that the
location will be chosen near the speed :
way and a garage will be constructed
for use of the members and friends.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
Ordinance No. 13,O54
Gill;


Council of the City of Los Angeles. es-
tablishing the grade of Forty fifth
street. from Budlong avenue to Nor
mandie avenue.
The Mayor and Council of the City of
Los Angeles do ordain as follows:
Section l. That the grade of
FORTY FIFTH STREET,
from Budlong avenue to Normandie
avenue is hereby established in accord
ance with the following elevations:
At the intersection with Budlong ave-
nue. the grade shall be 16072 at the north
west corner and 1605S at the southwest
corner.
At the intersection with Normandie
avenue the grade shall be 1858 at the
northeast corner and 155.47 at the south
east corner.
And at all points between said desig-
mated points the grade shall be estab-
lished so as to conform to straight
line drawn between said designated
points.
Elevations refer to the top of the
curb, are in feet and are above a plane
which is 255 feet below City datum
Sec 2. The City Clerk shall certify to
the passage of this Ordinance. and shall
cause the same to be published once in
The Los Angeles Herald and thereupon
and thereafter it snail take effect and be
in force.
nance was adopted by the Council of the
II. ]. LELANDE,
City Clerk.
Approved this 14th day of July. 1906
OWEN McALEER.
7-19 1t Mayor