Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-09

three months at most unless present plans fail a huge gold dredging ma chine having a capacity of 5000 cubic yards of earth every twenty-four hours, and belonging to the Western Dredg ing compan, will be at work in the bot tom of the Agua Fria river, short distance northwest of Glendale.
 This dredger Is now being built at cost of over $100,000 and will shortly be completed. It will then be shipped to Glendale, hauled out to the claims of the dredging company, and set up. This will be but the beginning. Sew eral other dredgers have been ordered and Col. Frederick W. Carlyle. one of the principal members of the company, stated not long ago that he confidently expected the concern to make profit of s100, ,000,00 in two years.
 When all the dredgers are in opera tion they will give employment to a large force of men. All supplies will be purchased in Phoenix when pos sible but Glendale will be the shipping point.
 Plans Have Been Approved.
 Col. Carlyle was in Phoenix a few weeks ago and drove out to the claims of the company. Upon his return to Los Angeles he made very enthusias- tic report, which was the third he had submitted. All have been approved, and it is now definitely settled that work will soon begin extracting the gold fro mthe rich sands of the Agua Fria.
 Col. Carlyle. in his last report, stated that the climatic conditions, roads. etc. were all very favorable for dredging operations. The road all the way from Phoenix to the claims is smooth and level just what is needed for hauling the heavy machinery.
 Organized by Batre.
 Charles Batre, the well known Ari- zona mining man, brought about the organization of the Western Dredging company. The originator of the scheme to yIredge for geld in the Agua Fria is l.. J. Horton, of 225 Mckinley street, this city. Mr. Horton first men toned the matter to MT. Batre about year ago and after making thorough inyestigation Mir. Batre went to Los Angeles and interested A. A Irish, a prominent business man of that city. Through Mir. Irish CCI. Carlyle, of Washington, D. C., became interested. The company was formed and now Col, Carlyle has removed from Washington to Los Angeles to be near the scene of operations.
 The Western Dredging company has it's main office at 402-403 Gross build ing, Los Angeles. A. A. Irish is presi- dent, Charles Batre vice president, and George F. Southern, of Boston, secretary and treasurer. Col. Carlyle, Mir. Irish and MT. Southern are said to own three-ffths of the stock in the Cleveland-H Hammond mines on Feather river in California and have success ful hydraulic plant in operation. The results they are realizing from this project are very encouraging, as they are extracting from sl.50 to SIPS worth of gold from each cubic yard of earth. MT. Irish is said to be also the president of three good mining companies, all on a paying basis and offering no stock for sale.
 Much Gold in Agua Fria.
 The sands of the Agua Fria every where are said to carry much gold. but the company has taken eleven miles of claims upon the richest part. On different occasions prospectors have worked upon this property with primitive rockers and the company made no objection Only a minute fraction of the great wealth king there in the river bed can be taken out by that method. The gold bearing sand extends to almost unsounded depths
 Expect Enormous Profits.
 Col. Carlyle. after his last visit to the claims, estimated that with fifteen dredgers upon the claims the company could make profit of from $50,0OO to S100.000 per month with no trouble.
 One dredger is worn out after 1t has worked twenty-five acres. but even from tract so small as this it Is claimed that millions can be taken. In the past, thousands of dollars worth of placer gold have been taken from the Agua Fria by the rocker method. Its sands have been washed from Humbug creek, Placer canyon, | Squaw creek, Eddy canyon, Cave creek, Granite canyon. and many other wet weather streams along which gold has been found. The Flower Gold company is now operating hydraulic plant of Humbug creek and is said | to be paying thousands of dollars to | the stockholders.
 Definite information as to how soon the first dredger will be in operation is not obtained, but it is a certainty that it will not be long. After thai others will rapidly be installed and in