The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-06-20
QUARTZ AND PLACER ARE
RUNNING NECK AND NECK

Manhattan, New. June 1S-The
quartz and placer mines Of Manhattan
are, to use popular term. running
neck and neck" with each other as his
| tory-makers for the camp. Every week
each has It's page Of good news to re-
cord. and 1t would seem that the real
activity in the new Klondike Is only
beginning Now that the hib high-ten-
sion power line has reached the camp
and is In operation. 1t will cause re-
newed activity all along the main
gulch, where are located the rich
placer fields, and also over the hills In
every direction. where the quartz
mines are busy sending out their
riches. The arrival of the power will
mean that dozen more placer prop
critics, which have bee waiting for the
juice to be turned on, will start work
| at once, as they have their electric
equipments all in place and ready.
Friday was lucky day for the gulch.
for, before the sun had set over the
distant hills, 1t had Witnessed the find.
ing of the largest nugget yet uncovered
in the placer district The nugget in
question weighs sc pennyweights and
measures l2 inches long, 1-2 inches
wide and one'half an inch thick Tie
nugget was about two-thirds gold and
one-third Of a reddish-brown quartz.
and is valued at about $45. The mug
get was found on the Moore Chindgrea
lease, near the scene of the original
placer discovery In the camp, together
VITA a smaller one. worth about Sc,
the latter having in some manner
passed from the sluices TO the falling
dump, where it was picked up. FRIDAY
was good day all around for the
lucky leasers and their cleanup In the
evening gave them S ounces and
pennywelghts OF amalgam and
ounces Of nuggets. In addition TO the
two nuggets before mentioned.
A big thing for the placers will be
the installation of pneumatic dredger
in the gulch, which will have capa-
city Of from 500 to 1000 yards of
gravel every twenty-four hours. The
machine will be installed by the Pneu-
matte Dredger company of Sacra-
mento, and the owners state that with
in from twenty minutes to half an nour
from the time the power is turned on
the machine will have reached bed
rock. distance of about GO feet, The
biNb6'l VII III rive III Iut E4lOD lnlS
week and will be installed on the dry.
wash Wilson lease on the September
claim, where IL VIII be given a thor
ough test The device works some.
what on the principle of u suction car
pet cleaner. It consists of a twelve
inch casing. shaped like a stove pipe.
Inside of it is small pipe carrying air
TO the end in the ground. the air hav.
Ing pressure Of twenty-pounds TO the
square Inch The air forces every
thing that is loose and not to large TO
come up through the casing into the
Sluice boxes About two miners Inches
of water are required 10 loosen the
material. 1t Is practically a plan OF
eXcavating and hoistlng dirt by air
pressure. It cleans the bedrock per
pectly. better than could be done with
a broom, taking every particle out of
the creNlces The boulders. which are
not wanted, it leaves. but 1t takes all
the loose meterlal from them, leaving
them perfectly clean. 1t will sink sixty
feet in one hour, and many places In
twenty minutes, handling 500 tons of
dirt day