Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-11
LARGE ATTENDANCE. AT LAST MEETING
 CHAMBER OF MINES

VlInFIDIn Vl TluNLO
 At largely attended meeting of the Chamber of Mines last Tuesday new phase of the mining industry of Mohave County was gone into, that of dredging the bars of the Colorado River. The Boulder Canyon Dam has been live issue in the Chamber of Mines meetings for the past several weeks and this dredging for placer gold comes as tributary subject. R. S. Billings in speaking to the mem- bers is quoted on the subject as fol- lows:
 Referring again to the building of the Boulder Canyon Dam on the Col orado River, you will understand that it is proposed to make up party of which the County Surveyor, the Sup ervisors, and MT. Anson Smith will be the leaders and guides, having in view the cruising out of from three to five miles of the road that con- meets up with the proposed dam-site at this end of the road. I want to urge any of you who can possibly get away, to accept their invitations to join this party and thus familiarize your selves with not only the physical features of the road, but also, get a miniature grasp and glimpse of the immense possibilities of this dam which is one of the few great na- tional assets now unexploited and which fortunately is located in Mo have County and thus becomes local heritage of incalculable value.
 When you consider that the first unit of this dam will cost $50,0OO,- 00O00 and supply 100000 horse power and irrigate over 100000 acres of land and that in it's construc- tion, it will employ 5000 men for term of years, and that all of this money should and must be tributary to this end of the County, you will see how vital it is that we should do everything in our power to not only boost the building of this dam by the Federal Government, but we should familiarize ourselves with every pos sible detail.
 In this connection, my attention has, this week, been called to a new angle of the immense possibilities and new revenues that the building of this dam and the controlling of the Colo rado River will develop. A young en- gineer who has been recently operat- ing a large gold mining dredge in California, informs me that there are hundreds of miles of the banks, bars, washes, and benches, of this river that are bound to be dredged both above and below the Boulder Canyon Dam. and that this dredging in the most of cases can be done more cheaply than in other states and in other parts of the world on account of the con- trolling of the river that the building of the dam creates and from the fact that very little of this river or the placer territory adjacent thereto, car ries any boulders such as have to be encountered in nearly every other dredging operation.
 He tells me, and you can under stand and grasp it, that the gold pro- duction from the gold Assures of the River Range, although having i'm mense possibilities, will pale into in significance when compared with the gold production that will be created by the large modern dredges hand ling thousands of yards of gold bear ing gravel per day.
 This is an industry that, today, commands the attention of the largest kind of capital and this capital has it's scouts all over the world looking for available dredging ground of which we have in MohaveS N County, hundreds of miles,"
 Among other things the names of five new members were reported to the organization Tuesday.
 Several interesting talks were forthcoming, one subject of interest being maps. The sentiment was ex- pressed that the organization would 1t could give maps in large quantities to brokers who would send them out on their mailing lists. Inasmuch as the expenses of this could not be borne by the organization the organi- zation is giving them to brokers in large quantities at five cents per copy which is just half what the present map Costs, making the thing fifty fifty.
 The secretary of the organization was instructed to write Secretary AL 1 bert B. Fall and extend an urgent in- vitation for him to visit Mohave County when he comes West to the big conference on Boulder Canyon Dam which will be held at Riverside | December 9th, 9th and 10th.