The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1922-08-03
EAGLE CREEK GOLD CO.
ANDITS BEDROCK FLUME
PLACER GROUND PROMISES BIG
RETURNS UNDER MOD
ERIN METHODS.

The Eagle Creek Gold Mining COM
pany is carrying out an important
bedrock nume enterprise on Eagle
creek. which promises to prove highly
profitable to the promoters. in view of
the large production the ground has
already yielded the original owners
for many years past. The original
owners of the ground were Rufus
Dunlap and Archie smith, two of the
real pioneers of the district. They
acquired the ground in 1884 and every
season since that date they have
worked the ground where the bedrock
was not too deep by ground sluicing
and booming process. and at times
stripping the ground down to pay
gravel. In this manner, slow and la
borious as it is, they managed to clean
up an average of about $4,000 a year
and one year they took out an even
$4,000. Thus they worked until ar
ter the beginning of the world war
Then cost of labor and supplies began
to mount without a corresponding in
crease in the value of their product,
a HiAhdAlOn AlidA iOlNtN lntili 10 SuS-
pend operations and give their atten-
ton to working out a plan for hand
ling the gravel on a larger and more
economical scale.
incorporate Company.
The most feasible plan and the one
that has been adopted is a bedrock,
flume. In order to finance the under
taking the proposition was presented
to J. c. Parsons. of Philadelphia, who
made a thorough investigation and
decided to take over tho financial
end of the enterprise. Thereafter the
Eagle Creek Gold Mining company
was Incorporated, of which Archibald
Smith is president Rufus Dunlap
Svice president, J. c. Parson secre-
tary treasurer. These with j NJ
Magee, of Pittsburg. and Walter II.
Hanson, of Wallace constitute the
board of directors. The organization
of the company was Immediately fol-
lowed by active work on the ground
under the direction of Mr. Smith Up
to date the company has expended
about $4,000. in equipping the ground
for operation. and visit to the
ground impresses one with the fact /
that the money has been well spent |
Everything has been done in a per
workmanlike manner and /
with the evident idea of economy in /
operation.
Bedrock and Power Flume.
The bedrock flume is ~ feet wide
inside and feet deep. the bottom,
which will serve as rifles. being g.
nch blocks of cottonwood The nume .
has been completed for a length of
800 feet and will be extended about
200 feet further to reach pay gravel, .
At which point the bedrock is about
10 or II feet deep. The flume has a
fall of 3 inches to II feet, and with
FULL head of water boulders Is inches
Or more in diameter will be carried
away without difficulty.
The flume to provide hydraulic
power has been completed. It is u
inches square. but it is possible that
It may be necessary to increase its
depth. The flume is 500 feet in
length and gives a fall Of $50 feet.
This flume rests on a solid grade
along the mountain side and termin-
ates in a substantially constructed
tank. from which drops the penstock
Of lO-inch iron pipe. This is reduc-
ed to inches and then Z, the diam
eter of the pipe that conveys the wa /
ter to the ball bearing Giant nozzle,
which is in position for action and L
through which a stream is now spurt-
ing with terrific force This in brief
IS the situation on the ground of the
Eagle Creek Gold Mining company,
and plans contemplate starting actual
mining as early as practical next sea
son with all conditions favorable for
arge profits.
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