RAY RIVER
SPRINGS
Natural Incubator Proves
Successful-Great Place
for Farming.
Clement Anderson arrived from the
Kay River Hot Springs last Sunday and
returned, accompanied l>v \V. C. Bowen
and Sam Chare, the next day. Messrs.
Bowen and Chare are merely going for
the outing and for the benefit they may
derive from a short stay at the springs,
and will rome out before the freezeup.
Mr. Anderson may not leave the springs
again before next spring. During his
present absence an Indian is looking
after things. Through the winter he
may be alone, in which rase it will be
necessary for him to stick to his [lost
and care for the animals and fowls with
which the ranch is stocked.
A 12-pound cabbage head was brought
from the springs this trip. It is a per
fect specimen and is on exhibition at
the Miners Store. All kinds of vegeta
bles grew like magic the present season,
notwithstanding this was the first year’s
planting and little more was done than
to stick the seeds in the ground and let
nature take Its course.
One result of the summer’s work that
has*greatlv pleased I>r. Iludgin and Mr.
Anderson is the demonstration of the
fact that the warm ground around the
springs affords a perfect natural incu
bator. Boxes were sunk in the ground
where tests showed the proper tempera
ture, and the experiment was so suc
cessful that not a single failure was
noted. Mr. Anderson took back with
him four more hens, making eight in all,
and proposes to hatch all the eggs ob
tained throughout the w inter as well as
a great numlier next spring.
Hog raiding is one of the branches of
the ranching business that will be un
dertaken on a considerable scale on this
wonderful farm next year. There is no
limit to the hog feed that can be grown
with no further excuse than a very
small amount of labor. Beets, turnips
and all kinds of root crops grow so
rapidly and so prodighatsly that there
will never be danger of shortage. There
will la* abundance of milk for Voting
pigs. Mr. Anderson's |»eas ri|**uet! this
year, and it is ladieved abundance of
thi« crop can U* grown to put the pigs
in tine condition for the fall market.
It is the intention to market all pigs at
the Uginning of each winter, and tints
avoid the trouble and ex|«iMr of winter
ing any except the hog* kept for breed*
mg purpose*. \ tt<n k uf hoga will be
put in a* early as p***sibU» next spring,
and als«» a few rattle and sheep.
Mr Aakr*« t*«»k l*a« k with him a
few yellow Swedish turnip*, which it i*
to keep Through the winter
and plant for seed next spring. Other
kinds of seeds for home planting will
also be raised.
It is simply fascinating to contemplate
the wonders that may he achieved on
this ranch. The one drawback existing
at present is the need of a road to Ram
part. In time that will be overcome
and the farm will rival Karshner’s cele
brated place at Baker Hot Springs.
There is a gold-bearing belt which is
known to extend from the Chandlar
river southwesterly to the Melozikaket;
and if ever pay is developed along that
line the Ray River Hot Springs will not
only become important to the miners in
supplying them with fresh food and a
health resort, but will also prove a
source of wealth to the men who are
making improvements at them. As the
country now is, ranching at the springs
ought to give good returns in money and
pleasurable life.
ELEVATORS
FOR HYDRAULIC
PLACER TAILINGS
Wonderful advancement has been
made in hydraulic mining methods dur
ing the past few years; in fact, this ad
vancement has been necessary in order
to solve the many new and vexing
problems that have arisen as a result of
the old and richer surface diggings being
washed out. When the hydraulic mon
itor, or “giant,” was first introduced to
western placer fields, it drove the crude
groundsluice and rocker from the gulch
es. The powerful cannon-like monitor
and its cutting white shaft melted
mountains away and robbed them of
their gold. It was believed that the
question of mining deep diggings was
solved for. all time when the monitor
came into general use, but after a few
years’operation it was found that even
the monitor, or the monitor alone, was
not able to cope with the stubborn
auriferous hills. The monitor met all
necessary requirements when natural
conditions were right—when there were
abundant diggings, plenty of water and
good dumping grounds for the moun
tains of tailings that accumulated dur
ing the process of placering.
To uvereome tIn* embarrassment of
deta il nt < I limping grounds for the tail
ings tin’ hydraulic elevator wu» hit n|h>n
hv thr ingenious western miner, and the
elevator, in its latest form, is solving
the problem completely. The llrst ele
vator was Merely an inclined grizzly,
with a ritlled ami l it tired fhsir up
which the lioitldcr* ami dehris were
juggled hv a monitor. The gold settled
into a ritile on the grizzly th» r, while
the la at liters were rolled on up ami over
the incline hy the |siwerful stream from
the giant. This form of elevator was
ei|*it*ivv, in that it required an ettra
piper to manipulate the giant; also, it
luld to le looted unite fre.pleutly, as •lie
tailings s>h« piles I and elvlied the cm I.
JL.OJLSUIA.OJLSUUL5JUUL&.
HARRY BURRUSS. c
S. E. URETER.
HEETER & BURRUSS,
FREIGHTERS and PACKERS
Freighting and Packing to and from all Creeks. ®
Good Equipments and Service Unexcelled t
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The tubular elevator meets all the re
quirements of tailings elevating, and is
now being used and introduced on all
western placer mines that are confronted
with the dumping problem. This eleva
tor is very simple, and its construction
is easily within reach of any mine super
intendent or mining engineer. Prima
rily it consists of a section or more of
standard hydraulic steel piping, set at
an incline of (10 or 70 degrees, over the
end of the bedrock race of the diggings.
At the base of the pipe a monitor is
planted, with the nozzle set to throw its
stream directly up the inclined pipe.
The discharge from the planted monitor
nozzle causes a suction, and this draws
the entire flow of water from the race,
together with all boulders and tailings
debris, up the pipe, hurling the whole
mass into a sluice built on the upper
level, and supported by trestle. This
upper sluice is provided with riffles and
catches the greater part of the tine gold.
The lower sluice, or bedrock race, the
flow of which is drawn up through the
pipe, is also provided with riffles and
catches nearly all the nuggets and heavy
gold.
The bight of this elevator depends
upon the force of the giant. If the
monitor has a gravity head of only 200
or 250 feet, it will elevate but 25 feet;
but if it has a head of 400 or 500 feet, it
will elevate 30 or 40 feet. Some eleva
tors of this type are arranged with a
second giant set midway of the inclined
pipe, reinforcing the force of the one at
the base, and the two easily elevate all
tailings and bv-water to a bight of 45 or
50 feet. This elevation sets the upper
sluice high above the bedrock and af
fords dumping grounds sutlicient to
meet all requirements for ten years and
longer.
I he force anil power of an elevator of
thin type are remarkable. Boulders
weighing 500 and (SOU jioundn, which
must he assisted by pikepolo down the
lied rock race to the base of the inclined
pijie, are caught by the monitor and
hurled up the elevator an easily an a boy
would tonn a marble. Anything that
will go through the pijie in elevated, and
an nothing larger than the diameter of
the pijie can flow down the race, choking
up in obviated, and the tubular elevator
given no trouble in that regard. The
diameter of the pijie depends, of ronnie,
U|H>n the gravity head of the water at
the monitor mitule, a.n Well an UJ*o|l the
general water nujijily. A 15-inch |>i|«'
will elevate higher than one of JO-inch
diameter, hut for all general purposes
the fiD-ineli in jireferable.
The tubular elevator demands an
abundance of water and |>re»nure, and
an its success depends oidy tljsin these
two prime re<|uisite>, it is practical only
• •it placer mines affor<Us| an adispiate
water supjdv. J‘»r this reason their use
is eonlineil very largely to those mining
districts wiiere rains are eopious siel
the melting sle ws of spring warrant a
high level <>f water in tlie streams.
Mine« that use them have a battery of
two or three giants in the diggings, aside
from the one or two required for the
elevator.— Dennis II. Stovall, 11. S., in
the Mining World.
HORSE WAS FAST
IN THE QUICKSAND
A horse that was Wing used by the
Mayo (toys (,,r drawing out w<»sl got
stuek in the quicksand four miles up
the Yukon and was shot last Saturday.
The animal had W-en mired for more
than ten hours ami every |axsiMe effort
had Wen made to resene him Wfore it
was resolved to kill him.
The New York assay otttcv was estab
lished in HUS.