A Carload Of Machinery

A CARLOAD OF MACHINERY

George W. Seybold, secretary of the Idaho Dredging Co. Ltd., was in Kalamazoo Tuesday loading a carload of machinery for the new dredge that the company is building on Snake river, Idaho. The machinery consisted of a 100 horse power engine made by the Clarke Engine works of Kalamazoo and a Morris steel lined centrifugal pump with a capacity of 2500 yards of gravel per day, making a carload in all. This machinery will reach the mines in Idaho in about six days, where the dregs is all ready to receive it.

This company, which is principally owned in Ann Arbor, has brilliant prospects. It owns extensive submerged gold bearing gravel beds along the Snake river whose richness has already been proven by practical working tests. Being submerged the gold cannot be washed out by the ordinary processes of placer mining hence the resort to the plan of dredging. By this method of dredge is moved slowly  along the bar raising the gravel on board the dredge where it is washed and retuned to the water in the rear of the boat. This method is no experiment having been successfully followed for several years by other operations on theses rich Snacks river beds.

The dredge has cost the company about $15,000 and they hope to be washing out the yellow metal by August 1.

A small amount of the stock set aside for equipping the property with machinery remains unsold and can be had on application to George W. Seybold, secretary, 113 S. Fourth avenue, who will give detailed information concerning the company.