Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-05-01
WILL WASH
GOLD MAY Is
GOLD AND RUBY MINING
COMPANY WILL START
PLACER OPERATIONS
use ONLY TWO GIANTS NOW
Water From Boulder Creek Available
About August LIST.

Paul Pattison, superintendent of
the Idaho Gold and Ruby Mining
company, was a business visitor in
the city Saturday and told that the
company planned to begin the wash
ing of gold from the gravel bars
owned by it near Leonia in not later
that two weeks time.
Two hydraulic giants will be used
in the work and until about August
LIST water will be obtained from Gaby
and McGinty creeks. These two,
streams will furnish about 1000 inch
es of water After August 1st water
will be obtained from Boulder Creek
which will furnish about five times
the volume of water as McGintw
and Gaby creeks.
There seems to be no reason To-
doubt but that the expectations of
the officers and stockholders of the
Idaho Gold and Ruby Mining COM
pany will be realized this summer
when the real work of washing the
gravel beds for gold is started. Pre-
liminary work has been carried ON
for several years getting in readiness
for operations on a large scale. The
company owns a great many acres
of placer ground all of which has
been. tested thoroughly for gold and
which this summer should wash
thousands of dollars worth of gold
daily.
During the past six years the
Idaho Gold and Ruby Mining COM
pany has spent S350000 in develop
ment work. In speaking of the eff
forts being made to begin active
placer operations at once, j. M
Schnatterly, president of the COM
pany, gave out the following inter
view recently in Spokane:
81 have been advised of the arrival
at Leonia, Idaho, of three carloads
OF steel pipe, the first unit of our
hydraulic equipment. The pipe has a
diameter of Is and % inches and
length of 1000 feet, sufficient to
carry water for the operation of two
hydraulic giants. The water of two
creeks will be turned in for this
operation while the work of digging
the rest of the ditch is in progress.
Seventy-five per cent of the ditch
work has been performed. The re-
mainder will have been dug bv Au-
gust l, when we will have reached
Boulder creek. the main waterway
of the field. This will enable us to
operate eight more giants, or 10 in
all: Other units of the pipe line
will have been installed before the
ditch is completed. Fifty men are
engaged in the installation of the
pipe. E. T. Tregilus, a pipeman of
10 years experience, and w. Mustoe,
who has been with us quite a while,
Will operate the first giants.
Water Head of APO Feet.
Work will begin on low bar. next
to the creek, which runs on bedrock,
and will proceed into high bar. The
gold-bearing gravel to be handled has
maximum height of 400 feet and an
average of 200 feet, it covers 1900
acres and measures 100000, 900 cubic
yards, according to engineers. Each
giant will handle approximately 5000
cubic yards in "a hours.
eve will obtain 1000 miners inches
of water and 200 feet of effective
head from the two creeks to be
turned into the ditch first and 10000
miner S inches and a head of 42C
feet from Boulder creek. We have
a full head of water for a four
foot head of sluice matter coming
from a low bar"