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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1908)
ROGT't- SIV t IKH 'h PASS, J!(KOiv J I 31 1 S T3 0 o 0) o 0 -a o IO o o ft! o O -a o a o as -a o o a o til o o -a o be I c a E CO c E 3 e 3 bo ICQ c 0) W c CO c ti be I ICQ e 0 c Rogue River gold 1 Gilman Mining Machine Rogue River gold Gilman Mining Machine Rogue River gold j Gilman Mining Machine JV mm nn f $100 Now will Make You Rich OF $50 WILL MAKE YOU INDEPENDENT OF $25 WILL BRING BETTER RETURNS THAN WAGES A Limited Number of Shares Available at only 25 Gents Each JV r M "r JV UN flu to nn nn n , . rly.;:tr.' r&y:,Zi2-'3fr The object of the Gilman Mining Machine is to dry and mine the bed of Rogue River. It is built of steel on the order of a wing dam, 35 feet long by 16 feet wide, and covers 250 surface feet at a setting. It is carried between two 80-foot barges, containing hoisting apparatus, and is let down into the river bed. The steel slides which are provided on both inner and outer dome are then jacked down to conform to the uneven surface of the river bed. A filler of dirt is then put in between the two domes. This completes the dam. The object now is to remove the water from the inner dome, to enable us to work therein with pick and shovel. This is accomplished by means of a sy phon (on account of this method being more economical than pumps). The intake pipe alongside the machine, is 24 inches in diameter and tapers down to 14 inches, which is the size of the syphon pipe. The syphon pipe hangs down the river 1000 feet, which gives us 8 to 15 feet of drop. The valve in the intake pipe is opened ; the current of the river fills this pipe as well as the syphon pipe, than the valve is turned of and the weight of water in the syphon pipe takes suction from the leg of syphon on the inner dome and the water from there is drawn out. We are then ready to start with pick and shovel to work the gravel, bed-rock and crevices, to the same advantage as though on a dry bar. We use no power outside of that supplied by the current of the river it self and are enabled to move the machine to a new location of 'J50 surface feet for an expense of something less than $8.00 in three hours time. Mr. Gilman, the inventor of this machine has spent the past five years perfecting this machine for mining Kogue River and thirty to forty engineers, (mining, civil and mechanical) have passed upon it, never one rendering an ad verse opinion. The machine has been designed and built especially to meet the conditions in Rogue River and it will, without doubt, perform this service suc cessfully. ROGUE RIVER Rogue River is undoubtedly one of the richest rivers in gold of any in the world. The people of this community know something about what was taken out of this river below Ray's dam. They also know that thousands of dollars have been taken from the bars. Many of the creeks flowing into Rogue River are very rich and have helped to feed gold to its bed. Then too, the many slides have helped to enrich this river bed. This river for fifty miles has been thoroughly prospected by ua and at the point where we will start operations we have gotton over $02.00 to the pan. We therefore have positive proof as to the values we may expect. THE COMPANY This Company was organized March 20th, 1908, under the Laws of Ore gon, with a capital of only 150,000 shares. A sufficient number of these shares is being sold to build and put into operation the first machine. After complet ing the sale of this stock, there will be 10,000 shares reserved with which stock it is intended to earn and accumulate a sufficient surplus to build furthtr ma chines for operation in Rogue River, so that the stockholder in this Company derives the benefit of all machines placed in Rogue River between Grants Pass and the Coast and we expect to have in operation at least six of these maohines by July 1st, 1909. The Company is organized along liberal lines; our Board of Directors meetings are open to our stockholders and stockholders are kept in close touch with the movements and actions of the Company. We employ none but stockholders in our work, which makes us practically a co-operative concern. We have our barges completed and have already started with them to the seat of our initial operations below Galice Creek. Our machine will be on the ground within the next two weeks and we will be in actual operation within 45 days. Wo have raised all the money necessary to build, and pay for our ma chine, barges, pipe etc., ' with tlie excep tion of about $1200.00 and as soon as this amount is raised there will be no stock available at any price. We beliovo we have a proposition which should appeal especially to the people of Grants Pass and vicinity and we invite them to see us, investigate, see our working model, talk the matter over and if yon don't believe we have the biggest proposition and one that will pay you the largest dividends of any enterprise you ever heard of and quickly don't buy any stock in it. If you do believe we have an opportunity for you to invest a small amount of money in a sure, safe, big paying propo sition buy some of the stock. The opportunity will have come and gone if you think about it long. There is only a small amount of this stock left and it has never been sold at less figure than today 25 cents per share. :.K ...,.v .v m te THE WORKING MAN'S OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFE TIME THE INVESTORS CHANCE FOR WEALTH GILMAN BED ROCK MINING CO 413 G Street, Grants Pass, Oregon DIRECTORS L. F. Gilman, Pres; R. F. Wendover, Secy; C. C. Clark, A. E. Voorhies, II . L. Herzinger, J. M. Harlow, Roseville, Cal. 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