The Nome daily nugget., 1908-04-28

n.H#aHt because af Inc cruise of the 1.et ef eetI ships thal arr mining
 Eraat quanttia- u gold from pl4ccs fuat would mol hive attracted q gold
 s,esar fru wars age
 Whether taa answer ta thIs question =.st be Cat | aiu sdn further ad-
 e..a, uur wonderful prosperity. or whether t shall be- that gold ul suf- far the fate of silver and bs drmane- f.4ad th, average man i~ wiling tol welcome al that can Re found So 1unE as tha governments uf rh9 world continue ta stamp Hs arbitrary value 1u t.~ face and declare if te money. sal# Nia a4t e. begging however much Htf- actual HaHaha-ins raeee. may ae- era=>a
 Ta, sa.d dredss can maAa living one a5 sald-boariug graysa earrrns aaHt cents atom ot tb,. precious met Sapra-, some r,r~au took taa ef =f##e. #na .aHte ##d#5earaa # an t#- floor TE- H.s that pile he pa5d aarauHy @fv sa--Ha#eta af fHei gaI# #a-t he eaald aH5a bg dIinr arz, on. dofnr =1id r.-rr Then H.#aatJ say tp yau "Tah# thdt aar,h He zfatet and ea through f and sIve me H4ek fHat gold HHd fs0la hHi aHr- .a=a~aadtH- earf af i'm Inc rile. Uae- 5Hs 4mera ae -aaa task an- [ #reaa ~ ssH #1enatloa
 AfHH eaaId not aesamaa-# raa work azH aIs HaHae. for H-#d require sa 5a8e a tlma that taa ,#Ht- in gold a4alI mol bus him enough ,a.,at while l be worked at the task E8' mgrhfn- 1 ore That s different Man has talk aa ..s -hIr on which Jason sailed for ile sa.d,u fleece. G. has taken iron and -fe,t from t=o Hoart~ ef tHe hHls | l aa1 made aHa'ez= rhaHs af powerful d4EsHs laaEat-. he has taken een- i tnCaeal taree=aud compelled if te wash tha gaII from it- hiding place ha 'ha- made the "go'# ship" Tho eold ship s-bz far an.v enough water taI Gaa, h.r at th, first She ain dig her | oan se4f Hetare her and forever eTove i ihsr HlE- h,Had The "rouaous lcHain- of buekersscaor up great qnan- uti.s af gravel The gravel is dump cd iutp whirlpool of water and wash 1 ed There arc screens and screens and finally all these minute particles of the precious yellow emtal are washed down oyer the riac-. ceeaaaat mating catching and holding tho gold. or the mercarv of the amalgam plates at
 tracting | and incorporating it.
 II is all don. rapidly thc water iz
 used oyer and ater again. and inc
 buckets keep ou digging. digging. and
 the eold-exhau-tcd tarings arc piled
 out behind When the day's work is
 done if the gold snip has saved as much a- or cents per cubic yard
 from aIl the gravel II has handled
 then all exreuses have been paid IfI 1 it saves more than that the additional gold k profit Thus gravel bearing
 only r. cents to the cubic yard is won
 derfunv profitable. In California there
 has beeu a steady decline for several
 years in the amount of gold produced
 hy tho older methods of mining buf
 the gold ships hav. brought mp more
 than the difference
 But of course the gold fleet is ztHI
 cruising iu what arr. for if. easy va
 ters. and Phuad"lphia's gold bearing clay is still safe The benches along
 the rivers in California and in Alaska fwhere the waters have been depositing
 gold gravel torn from the mountains through countless ages are lhe most 1 attractive cruising places for these
 strange treasure ships Tho gold dredse has come into its prominence
 within Inc present decade. and lts fruits have increased twenty fold with
 in the past seven wears But the
 dredee is not an entirely new thing
 Tn the fftiez there was a gold dredge
 at orovlle. cal. where a great fleet of gold ships is now at work Forty
 years aga the gold dredge was put ta' work in New Zealand where the na-
 tives scooped up gravel by hand from
 a floating raft Those carly attempts
 were failures in that they did not pro-
 duce dividends. but they were success
 es in that they gave birth to the idea
 Their failures were warnings. their
 possibilities were guides for the gold
 shin pilots and crews of today
 The first s,,cceesf,,i dra,,,1 t, ,tts