The Nome daily nugget., 1911-01-06

piles of gravel have been made to serve various good purposes and, at the same time, furnished the best class of material at minimum cost to the consumer
 Several protests have been mad. in she past against permitting dredge mining These protests have been made without an adequate knowledge "f actual conditions. it being claimed that the debris fom the dredCes was allowed to flow into the river channels. to their detrim,nt and the whole in- duStry was consequently condemned. investigation shows that in a few in stances however. the balance of tho dredgers have either operated in land locked sections away from the streams or were depositing the tailings on the banks "f the streams, deepening thu channels and improving them"
 Still another matter is considered hy Aubury as follows:
 Some complaint has also been made of the total destruction If the soil where dredGers operate Regarding this matter. and as will afterwards be shown in this report but a compara . lively small amount of arable land is Included in that which has been or will be dredged. On the other hand. re- clamation projects are now under way which are heire carried on by come | of tho dr igir,- comraries. which will
 restore to 'I'tiyation hundreds of acres ot swamp ar oNr"i..ve ed lands. an.l ! "hic". w,Ts u utr for the enterprise Dt th"s" companies, would remain vast" or unproductiyr for wears to come. These reclaimed lands will far nore than offset thos- which some 'laim will be irreparably riuned The
 'o-called destroyed lands. which at one i'm" were productive had. t" a large 'NtCnt. been mad. worthless for aCri- 'ulturc. viticultur- or horticulture hv 1 heir former owners before n bucket | lad turned them over I'm. mineral i ingredient u"c"~~ary fu plant lie. had | been .xhau~t"d from th.. ;rfar.. soil
 nd it was uracticall, imuos.ihI. .,r | h' farmers '" rai~" r,ontahl,. ,.ror ! rom them
 "T" a certain ,Ntont dr.le.,g < ih..a | lud- has reclaimed them Trees or
 iu.- planted sine, tho tnds were irodg"d. eiN' ample evidence pf the
 crilit> of the ground and serve to Hms.-t.. t i.urr ' s.ur, of inc
 sal.' lr tte 'ra-'as -,..t.. Ind.
 :. s"d by dredging companies l or S25 por rorc. "-a 'r" game land.
 ftor dredging with its cobble piles, ! vas -"ld for zloo per acr,. for inc | gravel contents After the gravel had
 'eon removed, "r the lands levcled l hey can again be utilized if necessary or farming lands
 "The dredging industry in California, l while adding annually millions of dol i 1r- worth of gold {" our states pro- i iuet- at the same time disprnS.s i'm . nenso sums ta the various channels of . rad" and adds materially to our pros ,ority II will c"ntinu" To dc this for ' least the next decade, and as actual .ouditions affecting the industry be-
 some nor. generally known. and prop
 r restrictions lr" maintained ir wnl p" more appreciated and the objections
 "hich hav" len raise yaH dieap- noar"
 In th. preparation .r tn. gold dredG- .ug bulletin vast amount of material Has been accumulated dealing with god
 irydglng in California and elsewhere
 In the book thrra ar. 70 illustration, and number of maps The nlustra-
 ions deal with the process of gold s"veral pages are devoted to picturing eucalyptus growing an cnlevelrd lreigc tailing in the Oravine district: grap" vines aud almond trees on level- "d tailings. eucalyptus trees planted on reclaimed dredging ground in th. Fol- som district thr,-e months after plant ing. and apple and walnut trees. two wears old on dredged lands in New Zealand
 h the dr-dgins hook il is reported that thcr" arc operating G3 gold drod~g- in tho state. representing an
 investment of ss.ss5. .OoO. The follow ing paragraph win attract attention:
 "Ther" is, perhaps. no branch of mining which has come to the front in so short time as gold dredging. which from l>ss to 1908 produced over Ss5.- 600 ,oo" worth of placer gold iu Cali fprnia. pu account of hydraulic min inr being prohibited in many coun- ..e~. rh, output of placer gold in rall- fornia would have shown marked de- areas.. in hate year~ had it not hccn fDl dr.dgr mining