Mohave County miner., 1911-07-01
Successful Run at
 the Frisco PIacers.

The long looked for test run of the plant of the Frisco Placer Mining cum- pany was made last week. The result was a success even beyond the expecta- tions of the company. The plant in- stalled, with few slight alterations, will be placed in steady operation within a month or six weeks.
 At the conclusion of the test run, which consisted of forty yards of gold bearing dirt, the basin under the sec ond trommel was examined and there before the eye, plainly visible, was yellow mass, lntermingled with the black sand. Superintendent Murray wore a glad smile al the conclusion of the run. The exact figures of the re- suit of the test run have not been given out but 1t is sufficient to say that the plant when in full operation can be depended upon to save not less than 80 per cent of the values and it is even estimated as high as 90 per cent.
 J. O. Baylor of Clifton was present at the finish of the test run and ex- pressed himself in the highest terms as to the values received from the limited amount of gravel run through, stating in his opinion there was over 3OOS of the precious metal in the lower basin alone. The Pierce amalgamator cid not catch much, { S the basin un- der the second trommel recovered nearly all the values.
 At present system of power cable scrapers is being put in. These con- prise four scrapers attached to a cable carrier, which will carry the gravel direct to the machine and trommels, thus doing away with wheelbarrows and shovelers, and much lessen the cost of handling the Eirt.
 MT. Lennox, one of the original owners. was in town Tuesday and stat ed that he had options on ground along the west river front for sixteen miles Some two years ago A. D. Lennox and E. G. Cook went to work on their ground in a primitive way, and work ed along steadily, making enough to pay theIr way and their hired help. Some four months ago J. NJ. Erickson became interested with them and pro- posed a great deal larger plant, with the result that c. B. Nonnamaker and w. c. Crawford, together with Mir Erickson and others, have furnished the necessary capital to put the prop erty on it's present basis.
 With this era of gold production in the district will come many more sim liar plants and the employment of hundreds of men, which means much for Clifton, its merchants and craft men. One success of this kind is a guarantee that others can do likewise.
 Clifton was first started as a mining camp way back in the 7Os. but king copper bobbed up with tremendous power and the yellow metal was lost sight of only in a desultory way now and then.
 The gold wealth of the world has been produced from placer fields, only a scant one-sixth being pounded out of the rock. This seems a broad as- sertion, considering the vast amount of mighty machinery daily pounding away on this mundane sphere, but nevertheless it is a fact, and statistics show it. It is understood that the group ot claims upon which the plart is in operation, is under option to eastern capitalists, who became inter- ested through the representations of Mir. Murray who visited the holdings of the company several weeks ago, at which time he thoroughly sampled the property and returned two weeks ago to personally superintend the first test pun Clifton Connap Fro