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FOB WOULD-BE ALASKA
With the thought in mind that
there may be somewhere in Al- j
aska someone who is not familiar
with prospecting methods and the
need for prospecting for gold and
who are desiring to go out and
look for “colors,” The Gateway
reprints the following article taken
from a national magazine:
A complete prospecting outfit
consists of several sizes of basin
like pans, an iron mortar and
pestle, a magnifying glass, bottles
of quicksilver and muriatic acid,
a square of chamois, a pick and
i shovel, supplies, and perhaps a
dry-washing machine
Placer gold is found in river
sands and gravels, and gold ore
is found in the hills. What a
prospector looks for depends upon
the surroundings. Placer gold is
loose and consists of tiny specks
and grains, w t i h sometimes a
larger Coming across a
likely-looking stream, the pros
pector proceeds to pan for “col
ors.” Gold is rarely found in the
pools or at the bends of a river.
The wise prospector fills his pan
with gravel from a point or a bar.
Some prospectors use nothing but
a frying pan; others carry three
pans graduated in size from 18
to six inches wide so that as the
gravel is concentrated they can
shift to a smaller pan.
Half filling the pan with gravel
and then filling it with water, the
miner swirls it around with a cir
cuar motion, holding it at a slight
tilt so that some of the water
runs over the edge. This separ
! ates the materials, the heavier
and finer grains moving to the
bottom and to one side, while the
larger and lighter grains accum
mulate on top and at the opposite
side These the miner throws
away by working them over the
side or scraping them off. He
dips it constantly into the stream
so that it is kept full of water.
Soon nothing is left in the pan but
a small quantity of heavy ma
terial, consisting mostly of black
magnetic iron sand. If gold is
present, the miner can often see
it at once; or by rapping the bot
tom of the pan with a rock, caus
ing the sand to bounce up and
down, the heavy particles of gold
are tossed into the air where they
may be seen. A few drops, of mu
Iriatic acid brighten the gold.
To completely separate the gold
from the black sand would be
too long a task, so the prospector
drops a small amount of mercury
' into the pan and swirls it. The
mercury picks up any gold that is
there. Then the mercury is strain
ed through the piece of chamois
leaving the flakes of gold on the
surface.
left of it, $160, he gave to a friend
to keep for him, and that amount
was recovered, making a total of
$1,800 recovered of the $2,500
stolen.
Bray was a trusted hanger-on
at the Panhandle and was granted
many privileges about the estab
lishment. He assisted in the early
mornings in cleaning up and in
replacing stock from the store
room where Mr. Campbell had
cached the $2,500. Suspicion fell
upon Bray as soon as the theft
was discovered and he was kept
under observation unti placed un
der arrest. No suspicion attached
to Wilkins, however, until it was
noticed that he was spending
money freely.
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CUSH IS FOUND IN
ANCHORAGE THEFT CASE,
TWO BOUND OVER
Two men in jail, bound over to
I the grand jury, and all but $700
of the $2,500 stolen from the Pan
! handle, Anchorage cardroom, early
j this mont h, is the record of
| achievement of Anchorage offi
i cers, federal and municipal, aided
. by Assistant United States At
: torney J. L. Reed and by Frank
Hoffman, former deputy United
States marshal at Matanuska, who
i is at present making his home in
: Anchorage, reports the Anchorage
I Times
Following the arrest of George
; Bray, charged with the theft of
; the money from the Panhandle,
j and Dave Wilkins, accused of re
[; ceiving a portion of the stolen
j money, the two men were given a
j hearing before United States Com
| missioner Thos C. Price and held
| to answer to the grand jury. But
up to that time virtually none of
the stolen money had been re
covered.
The story given to The Times
is that Bray took the $2,500 from
the Panhandle and gave Wilkins
$750 of it. Bray then proceeded
to spend $110 and cashed the re
mainder of his portion in a shed
at the Park hotel. Wilkins spent
his share more freely, getting rid:
of $590 in short order. What was!
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Countless remedies are advertised
for constipation. Many relieve for
the moment but they are habit form
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I contain calomel and dangerous min
eral drugs, which remain in the sys«
| tern, settle in the joints and cause
aches and pains. Some are harsh
purgatives which cramp and gripe
and leave a depressed after effect.
Avoid lubricating oils which only
grease the intestines and encourage
nature’s machinery to become lazy.
A purely vegetable laxative such
as Carter’s Little Liver Pills, gently
touches the liver, bile starts to flow,
the bowels move gently, the intestines
are thoroughly cleansed and constipa
tion poisons pass away. The stomach,
liver and bowels are now active and
the system enjoys a real tonic effect
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