The San Francisco call., 1910-02-20

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from the Argonauts. These mac
them, are working land that men.
called waste and taking srom il, at d
cost of a few cents per cubic yard of
earth handled, more than 100000
each year.
And, in addition, these enslaved
monsters are making possible the best
roads to be found in this country, for
The stones overturned by the dredg
CTS are crushed in great plants main
famed by the dredging companies and
the crushed rock is shipped to points
throughout the state, for use as rail
road ballast, macadam for roads, con-
crete for buildings, culverts, etc, and
gravel for asphalt pavements.
Another blessing, too, IS conferred
on California by the dredges. for the de-
bris from hydraulic mines. choking the
rivers. is being removed year by year
10y the giants as they reach their great
steel hands down into the streams and
AXE up the gravel and sand and throw
. It on the banks or pile it into walls
that catch the loose earth washing
down the current and hold it ef-
Of the Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields
are working with agents of the United
states government above Marysville in
throwing a training wall across a por-
tfon Of the overflow region of the Yuba.
and the work of placing these miles Of
banks. which viii restrain 1OO.OOO.OOO
Yards Of loose earth from washing
down stream. is all but finished.
tDredge manufacture. too has become
a profitable industry. and the Yuba
Construction Company pioneers in
dredge building. are making the great
structures for shipment to all parts Of
the world. for from the subarctic re-
gions Of Alaska to the limit of ice in
the antarctic gold is now being
searched out through the agency of
the dredge.
There are ten near Dawson, four on
Forty-AIile creek. one on Stewart riv-
er. two near Nome. -Four are operating
on Frazer river in Canada. Dredges
have been built in Mexico and Central
and South American countries. There
are three in Brazil. one in Colombia,
one in Tierra del Fuego. Two dredges
are working on the west coast of Africa
and two in the Philippines.
Within the scope Of less than dozen
years the gold dredging industry has
grown from a mere experiment to one
whose results run into millions of dol
lars and mean the employment of
thousands Of men. Unlike the old hy-
draulic system of mining, it results in
no serious luJNiS ~ ~
lands. This statement has been con-
tradicted by some people, who have
charged the gold dredgers with all the
Ills which have befallen the localities
in which they operate, without stop
ming 10 inquire into the justice of their
charge. The gold dredging people are
among the most progressive and public
snirited men of our state, and not only
are they producing half of the annual
gold crop Of California, which involves
tae employment of thousands of men
and adds materially to the invested
capital of the state. but in the very
process Of extracting the gold they are
reclaiming for agricultural purposes
thousands of acres of formerly worth
less lands, thus adding to the perma-
nent wealth of our people.
Fruit trees bearing the choicest va
rieties of oranges. apples lemons and
other fruits are growing sturdily
in land that has been dredged and
which many believed to be barren. J.
II. Leggett Of oroville exhibited at the
state fair in Sacramento last fall lem