The daily sentinel., 1909-08-30
RAYBURN SAVES
HEFLOUR GOLD

Yesterday morning {. e. In
man, prominent mining man of
eastern Utah, who is operating u
placer mining proposition on the
Green river at point about
twenty miles west of kcrnaI,
arrived in Grand junction and he
brought with him nugget that
attracted much attention and
winch stands as proof of the fact
that James =. RaybuIn, the well
known local railroad engineer.
has invented AN amalgamator
that may bring about the rev
oiution of placer mining in the
west and may result in big for
tunes bein. CLEANED from sands
OF the Green and Grand rivers,
fortunes that have hitherto gone
10 waste for lack of some method
to corral them.
This nugget contained flour gold
TO the value Of $500 and was the re-
suit of twelve-hour run of one of the
amalEamators invented by Engineer
Rayburn and was derived from
waste dirt" or sands that under ord
mary mining conditions are consider
ed hopeless from the standpoint of
gold producing from the simple fact
that until the Rayburn amalgamator
has been perfected there have been
no successful methods of getting the
gold from these black sands.
1t is needless to say that Mr. Inman
is delighted with the workings of the
amalgamator and he, with many 9TH
ers who have investigated. believe
that the Rayburn amalgamator will
do what many men have been endeav-
oring to do for many years, make
placer mining on the Green river and
other streams of eastern Utah and
western Colorado profitable.
A few days ago The Sentinel CON
tained story, credited to the Vernal
Express. to the effect that although
it has long been known that there is
an abundance of gold along the Green
river, not until lately has anyone be
lieved he has solved the problem of
saving the fine flour gold.
The Sentinel learns that Mr. Inman
believes that the Rayburn amalga-
mator has to a large extent solved
this problem.
Few people in this city know that
Engineer Rayburn has perfected this
Invention. He has not said much
about II, neither has his associates.
but the fact remains that the amalga-
mator is attracting, already, wide
spread attention in the mining world
A number of different sizes of the
amalgamators have been manufact1r-
ed in Denver for Mir. Rayburn and his
associates and are being given prac-
tical tests. They are simple yet re-
markable machines. Engineer Ray
burn having long known of the diff
ficulty of saving the fine flour gold
on these mountain streams, and be
| ing aware of the many efforts made
to solve the problem and prevent the
flour gold from being wasted, studied
out the principle that lead to the per-
fecting of his amalgamator and com
pared with numerous other amalga-
| matOrs il is said to be the best of its
kind ever invented and the only one
| thar has succeeded in cleaning the
flour gold from the black sands of the
Green river. thereby making the fu-
ture of placer mining look very bright
indeed. The machine is not an ex-
pensive one and its operation is said
to be very simple and very inexpens-
i've.
Mr.. Rayburn. George A. Lund and
a number of other well known local
men have organized the Automatic
Gold Amalgamator company and in
corporated under the laws of Colo
RADIO and they are starring out in a
modest way to handle the new ANAL
gamator.
Wherever the amalgamator has
been given a practical demonstration
IL has aroused great enthusiasm
among old time mining men.
When it is realized that from the
large placer fields of the Inmans and
their associates on the Green river
one of the Rayburn amalgamators is
making a remarkable saving of fine
flour gold every day, its worth and
importance can be more easily appre-
ciated.
The popular Rio Grande engineer is
to be congratulated upon his success
and his great army of friends will
hope that he makes a fortune out of
this invention which bids fair to work
wonders in placer mining and to
prove fortune producer for many
a mining man of the west