The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-12-03
READY TO TAKE OUTCOLD
The Golden Sands Placer Min
ing Company Is Now
Washing Dirt.
RUNS HIGH TO THE CUBIC YARD
The First Instance of Systematic
Placer Mining on the
Similkameen.

John Hubener, who has had charge
of the preliminary work on the Golden
Sands placer mining enterprise, has
been busy man for weeks. He is a
practical placer miner. and has per-
sonally superintended every feature
from the building of the fume to the
turning on of water. He has chatfed
over vexatious delays, that have oc-
CURED through no fault of his own,
pushing on to the goal steadily even if
not as rapidly as he expected. At last
he had the satisfaction of turning on
of the water this week, and if he meets
with no unforeseen accident the work of
hydraulicing down the dirt and the SUBJ
sequent extraction of the raw gold,
should 90 on smoothly until inclement
weather closes down operations. This
suspension may not occur, but the
chances are altogether favorable for a
freeze that will put the plant out of
commission. However forced shut
down of this kind would not mean the
abandonment OF the project, for the
company would start work again in the
spring as early as practicable. This
placer proposition is not temporary
scheme. 1t has been entered upon at
considerable expense with the aim oil
keeping at it so long as the ground
holds out, if the dirt pays. The tests
this late in the .eason will establish
the value of the ground to be treated.
If it turns out as expected Oroville will
have a paying mine in it's backyard.
The Golden Sands Mining companv,
controls several claims along the Simi-
lkameen river, just west of Orovllle.
1t is hardly necessary to go over the
oft repeated story of the wealth of
placer gold that has been taken from
the sands of this river. That is his
tory, and not stretch of the imagina-
ton. Colors can be found almost any
where on the river from Oroville to
Rich Bar, short distance above the
falls. Exhaustive tests have given a
value of over 81 to the cubic yard in
the ground covered by the Golden
Sands holdings. Anyone familiar with
placer mining knows that dirt that can
be worked in quantities at minimum
cost, and such system is by hydrolic
wushing, is considered exceptionally
good pay dirt that will average 81 per
cubic yard. 1t will thus be seen that
the Golden Sands crowd has a wide
margin to work on, and if the ground
is only worth one-fourth OF what the
assays say it is the company has
money maker.
The system employed by the COM
pany is similar to that used wherever
ylacer groune is wrsed on an extensive
scale. Long fumes are constructed
prepared with rifles, blankets and
quicksilver, and a heavy force OF wat
er turned on washing the gold beasing
dirt through the hume. The heavy
gold lodges on the rifles, the finer mold
is picked up by the quick, and what
washes over lodges in the blankets,
sacking or rough cloth arranged for
the purpose. The outfit put in by Mr.
Hubener is complete and the best IN
use for gold saving. The liume is over
POO feet in length, supplied with me-
talic rifles. The water is forced thro
a nozzle with high pressure pump,
and the pump is worked by electricity
The wires to run the pump were con-
nected Tuesday The public will watch
with great interest the result OF the
experiment, orif the enterprise proves
a success it will stimulate Others, and
will result in much benefit to Orovllie.
EDITION.