Excerpt from Dredges and Gold Dredging Our supervising engineers are constantly visiting the mills, inspecting, selecting and testing our materials; there fore, we get the best selection and quality to meet our wants in the shortest time possible. Hence we are able to turn out complete dredges in much shorter time, and at less cost, than any of the Western Manufacturers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Gold Dredging in California To His Excellency, james N. Gillett, Governor of the State of Cali fornio. And the Honorable Board of Trustees of the State Mining Bureau. Gentlemen: I have the honor to transmit to you Bulletin No. 57, Gold Dredging in California. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Gold Dredging in the United States The recovery of gold from sands and gravels is one of the oldest forms of mining; it antedates history and has been practiced by savage peoples. In North America the search for placer gold has been a powerful agency in the exploration and development of unknown regions and has profoundly influenced the course of our civilization. With the progress of invention, the improvements in machinery, and the availability of large capital for the conduct of great operations, the tendency in placer, as in many other branches of mining, has been toward the working of extensive but comparatively low-grade deposits. The early miner washed the rich spots in stream beds or terraces with his pan, his long tom, and his primitive sluice. Then followed the growth of hydraulic mining and the use of giants supplied with water under pressures of hundreds of pounds to the square inch that could work at a profit gravels whose gold tenor was less than 3 cents to the cubic yard. Finally came the dredge that could handle deposits lying so far below water level as to be beyond attack by other methods. Although the gold dredge was first successful on a commercial scale in New Zealand, it has reached its present strength and efficiency in this country and its development is a monument to the daring, per severance and technical skill of the many men, mine owners and engineers who have each contributed something to the final result. The Bureau of Mines, authorized to conduct investigations for the purpose of increasing efficiency in the mineral industries, had its attention called some years ago to the need of a comprehensive report on gold dredging in the United States. The director of the bureau recognized that such a report should summarize the development of the gold dredge, should describe in detail the essential features of present-day dredges, should discuss the facts that determine whether a placer deposit can be profitably dredged, and should point out the approved methods of prospecting placer ground and of operating dredges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Gold Dredging Enumeration of these latter, howe\ er, may serve to mark the failures of inventors in the past, and thus warn their successors against similar attempts. Undei the heading of obsolete machines may be classed the pneumatic caisson, the submarine boat, the hydraulic. Elevator, and the vacuum dredge. The pneumatic caisson was on the principle employed in making cylinders for the piers of bridges. In it, the diver was let down so as to work direct on the bed of the river. This might be all right for a rich patch, the situation Of which was exactly known; but, for men-day work, where much barren stuff had to be lifted, it proved a lamentable failure. Submarine boat, on the principle of the diiing bell, is said to ha\e been con structed, but never used. Dredging operations using the principle of the hydraulic elevator were attempted on the Chestatee River, Lumpkin co., (ia., but proved unsuccessful, the elevator being out of place in a river bed, many feet below the lewl Of the water, Since most of its work consisted in raising water that did not contain gold. The Bazin dredge was one of the first worked on the vacuum system. The principle upon which the vacuum in this machine was obtained lay in the difference of level between the water outside and the bottom of the bull, in consequence of which the water was forced up the suction-pipe projecting down from the hull to the river bed, and in doing SO carried up the auriferous sands. A centrifugal pump re ceived all the matter forced into the tube, and, adding fresh impulse to its progress, delivered it to the washing appliances. A disad vantage Of this form of dredge was that it required a considerable depth of water in order to produce the requisite amount of vacuum for efficient work. This defect led to the introduction of steam vacuum dredges. The boat was fitted with a boiler and steam pump, 0, each connected with a vacuum chamber, from which projected the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Idan-Ha Gold Dredge Company During the second year we will mill and treat the black sands saved the first vear, well as treat the sands daily saved during the second season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Drilling for Placer Gold There is yet another angle to the situation. In the event that preliminary work prompts a complete campaign of evaluation, the Keystone is absolutely necessary. And when the dredge is finally completed and at work, the Keystone has not outlived its usefulness. Modern practice suggests t the continued use of the drill in front of the dredge, blasting hard ground, determining the boundaries of barren areas, charting the pay-streak, seeking out reefs of hard bedrock, tracing the sub-surface bench line, even forecasting the cur rent dredge returns. A large dredging company now follow this practice, for, as they say, There is nothing more foolish or expensive than to prospect with a dredge! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.