The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-02

ouO SoIu nevertheless. Ilo bedrock
Is OF clayey formation; to use less
water is out of the question:; there
fore, Bill concludes to attach a mud
box to the tailbox. The mudbox as
a rule is Is inches deep and "a inches
wide at the upper end, narrowing
to IL inches at the lower. Into it the
tailbox discharges it's steady stream
OF water; rocks and clay. Jones,
who does not draw his $1,000 per
for what work he does, but for the
gold he can save, tends to the mud
box. 1t is his duty to see that no
clay escapes undissolved. / have
known instances where more than
half OF the days clearings was taken
from the mudbox. But it is not al
ways the clay bedrock that brings
trouble to the miner, and not always
on bedrock is found the best paw.
Placer-miners of the temperate zone
will assert such to be the case but
the arctic miner claims that gold is
where you find it. If you would
permit me I might cite scores of
cases where practical miners dug Is
or 20 feet through frozen ground
and never thought of panning until
within foot or two of bedrock.
And when they finally reached bed
rock they found a few "colors." Had
they taken a pan from the grass
roots" they might have saved a great
amount Of toll. l know to the geol.
ogist and the book-learned miner it
m ust sound somewhat "fshy'' to
on grass roots, but nevertheless it is
fact. Candle Greek produced from
the 9th of August, 1901, (the day
of it's discovery, until the freeze-up
of 1902 somewhere near $3.50, 900
and none of it was taken from bed
rock, but from the grass roots.
But, to follow Bill: At 6 p. m. he
shuts off the water. He, Jones and
one of the miners remain to clear up
while the rest go to camp. The miner
receives orders to 60 to the dam to
tend to the head gate while Bill
and Jones take the gold from the
boxes. The rifles in the other three
boxes are loosened, than Bill signals
to the dam for small head of water.
The rifles are carefully washed and
thrown overheard. Then the con-
centrate is stirred till the water has
washed all course material into the
lower boxes. Again Bill signals to
the man at the gate, this time to shut
off the water. Now all but t h e
lower rifle in the tailbox are loos-
ened and again the water is turned
on but not as much as before. Bill
and Jones, each armed with paddle
attack the concentrate. When finally
all light material has been washed
away and thin layer of golden dust
adheres to the bottom of the boxes
the gate is closed. Bill produces q
whiskbroom and carefully sweeps
the cleanup into heap just above
the remaining rifle. Jones mounts
the upper box and takes hold Of the
hose, for in the ensuing process the
water cannot be regulated from the
dam. While Jones holds the box IL
such manner that only a small por
ton of the water runs into the boz
while the rest runs into the pit, Bill
takes piece of board 6 inches square
and holds it in front of the heap O.
gold thus turning all the water tx
one side. Then with the whiskbroon
he sweeps the water on to the littl,
mount. The. water, thus dashed OF
to the gold, as it recedes carrie
with it all foreign matter and leave
the gold ready for the scales. Since
, it is almost impossible for gold t.