The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-17
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Remarkable Device For
Taking Gold, Platinum
and Other Precious
Metals
Rich Mineral Bearing Sands
in Shoa| Waters Adjoining
the Ocean Beach Are
Made 10 Yield Its
Treasures


was the greatest shallow placers ever
discovered. Possibly more valuable
shallow diggings have been discov-
cred, but l am not aware IL there is
another place In the history of gold
mining where such satisfactory re-
suits were so quickly obtained. says
f.. S. Harrison, formerly editor of one
of the Nome City papers. In his re-
cent writings. touching upon Alaska's
great wealth.
Hampton's Magazine for April,
1910, on page 452. under the heading.
THE Stupenduous Figures of Alas
Ika's Wealth." places the value of the
gold placers at from $5oo,O0o,O00 to
81, 0O0, OCO 900 and the gold lode bt
from $625,OOO, 900 to $1.25O, 100000.
Also Hampton's Magazine for May
1910, page ga. says: alfred II.
Brooks of the United States geological
survey. who knows more about Alaska
than anybody, else, declares there are
innumerable unprospected creeks that
may be rich in gold The placers alone
| in the Seward Peninsula, on which
Nome is situated, are estimated to con-
tain $265, 900 600 to 1925, 900. 900 of GOLD.
L. The great parent gold lodes
of Alaska have not been discovered,
Il but the placers are the proof that they
exist Vegetation. snow and ice have
thus far baked the explorers seeking
the lodes: but they win be found. Thus
liar with S142. 000,00O of gold to its
credit, Alaska has given us merely the
results of a few incidental scratches
on the surface of it's golden riches"
The Nome beach for a distance OF
forty miles from the cape bearing this
name. 10 Sinuk river, carried values
and all of this dry beach has been
washed over by the miners i'm crude
way from one to dozen times ana
the soldiers from the Nome garrison,
and other miners, i'm small way, are
washing at the present time and will
continue to wash the gold from these
sands for many years to come. Fol-
lowing every storm. good pay dirt Is
found on the beach i'm the ruby sands
which are cast up by the waves
Efforts have been made and for
Times running into many hundreds OF
thousands of dollars have been spent
lby various ones in endeavors to reach
land take the gold from the sands In
the fountain head, or the source OF
this great gold placer deposit. Float
ling dredges have been quilt and towed
to the shoal waters adjoining the
lbeach. but the constantly rolling surf
would pile them up on the dry beach
before they could ne anchored for
loperation. All other devices have met
with a similar fate.
To Michigan man is given the
snIendid achievement OF designing
patenting and constructing placer
ldredge. which meets every requirement
land overcomes every obstacle in tax
ling and separating the minerals from
these rich sands in the shoal waters
lRichard j. McKeone, assistant super
intendent of the great ship canal NJ
SAINT ste. Marie. In charge OF the
: limited States engineers. Is the IN
, ventor and patentee. The dredge Is
CONSTRUCTED on wheels eight feet high
, and the fioor-which Is supported 10y
several heavy steel eye-beams-i'
, trussed above the wheels. The dredg'
is 62 feet long. propells ITSELF an'
weighs nineteen tons. This arrange
ment permits the dredge to run on
: into six feet OF water and work whei
y a good sea is rolling. This height ais
I allows for the high tide which rise
0 land falls but two feet on the coast
the Seward Peninsula, upon whici
I, Nome Is situated. The tests of tn
!, dredge have proven that 1t will tax
. and separate the mineral from tw
Thousand cubic yards of sand an
Il gravel every twenty-four hours. Test
Q Inv the United States geological de
: partment and by many others indi
@ cate that the sands i'm these shos
: waters will average one hundred dol
liars to the cubic yard, In gold. Shoul
this sand produce but ten dollars !
gold per cubic yard, 1t Will then !
one of the greatest money earnin
devices ever invented. 1t will ear
!" many fortunes for its owners shou
he the sand contain but fifteen cents
lg gold per cubic yard.
vi A company has been formed. wit
ono hundred thousand dollars capita
m land Is now building dredge, In oil
40 of the machine shops in Chicago. al
90 IL is expected that II will soon be
"a operation at Nome. Other dredges
the same kind will be constructed
NC this company and placed In operate
rn at other places, in the shoal waite
adioining the beach Of California. or
er eon and Washington, where the Unit
a Estates geological department ha
of found the sand to be rich In go
Ily platinum and other precious minera
The Orvile Dredge company
orville, California, is paving Its stoc
= holders 20 per cent dividends on
II GENERALIZATION of s3.500.0o0, and wor
ing earth that runs but Is cents
the cubic yard. and costs from slu
y to $4,000 per acre to purchase 4
" shoal waters of the ocean are a p'
n; Of the public domain and cost nothi
e. are free 10 any one who can get
oXNffb qOld dredCpS in {