The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1906-03-17
In MODERN MINING.
ELEMENT OF CHANCE LL1MI.
-) BY THE DREDGE.
Obstacles of Primitive Methods Fave
Been Done Away With in
Up-to-Date Hunt
for Gold.

Placer mining came to stop II
Egypt and Spain when their product
fell TO the level OF hand labor; II
stopped in Brazil partly for the saIae
reason, and partly because the gravel
being small and fine, The place. fields
are nearly fiat and the mines are ''out
OF grade" 1t stopped in California
states The Chicago Chronicle, because
the tailings choked up the rivers, AM
the law courts interdicted the ny
draulic process.
In Australia it had almost passed
the level OF hand labor when the COLA
dredge was invented. In Alaska
though stopped in winter time for -ack
Of running water, 1t is still going on
during the summer time, when NE
streams are released from frost. In
meme OF these countries was placer
mining arrested because there vas
no more gold in the gravel, but tor
for the other reasons given, all OF
which are now remedied by the gold
dredge.
This invention supersedes nand
labor; it requires no grade" or Ge-
clivity down which to sluice It's
gravel; it will choke no river; it needs
only enough water to float itself i'll
and TO wash the gold with; and Ill od
this water it can and does use ever
again. 1t is as much at home in The
arid Tut auriferous deserts OF Arizona
as in the golden marshes of the
Feather river.
What is this "goldship?" 1t is
simply dredge that floats in pond
Of its own making-pond which ac-
companies it wherever it chooses to
20, and which enables it to move ever
the land in any direction. 1t scoops
up the gravel subjects it on its decks
to the action of any desired profess
mechanical or chemical, and then, hav-
ing exhausted it Of its gold, casts The
gravel behind, and keeps ON advancing
until the field before it is sifted and
treated from surface to bedrock.
AS the ground can be thoroughly
tubed and sampled beforehand, this
process lifts gold mining from the
category of speculative enterprises tC
that of a manufacturing business. The
gold dredge is a gold mandatory.
with an Unsuitable demand and an as
sured market for its product, at The
rate OF $2047 for each troy ounce
fine, paid down by the mints in gold
coin.
No risk, no idle stock on land, no
bad debts, no commission, brokera re
,teJ n
now or ever possible An instant sal
for the entire product at a 1xed price
paid in cash. Such a-e the incom
parable conditions of the gold-manu
featuring business.
1t goes without saying that unless
the cost of taking part in it is be-
yond the ordinary means of bus ness
men such an industry will not fail to
invite a vast number of participants
This contingency can be settled al
once The dredgeS cost from S39
900 to $50s00 each, according to size
"a sum quite within the means OF me
average business man. commercial
partnership or small corporal on.
Like most other inventiOi4S, the
PO!OSnlD IS u6NetOpIlell. a ~ I.
dredge was used on the Magdaiena
river 20 years ago; the device was
further developed several years latr
in New Zealand it was hro7eh al
most to perfection in California;; al
The present time a dozen machine
shops scattered all over the United
states are rivaling one another in
turning ou a more and more petfect
dredge.
The home demand for these ,rsa
chimes is so urgent that but few lays
as yet been shipped abroad, yet sew
eral of them have already gone to
South America, and several more to
Europe The present rate of out'urn
is about one machine a week; in the
course of a few years it will be one
per diem; in ten years it probably
will be ten machines per der. When
this takes place, and perhaps beI re
1t. the worlds production of god,
even should the quartz mines yield nc
more than at present, will be $4,000.
600 a day.