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ALL
Of Southern
I he Passing of the Arrastra
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Oregon
win its verticle axis and horizontal arms.
To these arms huge atones were attached
and dragged about in a circular pit, over
a smooth stone floor. The ore, broken
into bit», was ft <| into this pit and ground
into |M>wder by the revolving stones.
A small stream of water, running thru'
the pit, turned the powdered ore into a
thin paste ami washed it out through a
sluice provided with riffles, into which
the gold particles settled. The refuse
was dissolved ami carried off with the
waste water. —Mining Review, Salt Lake
City.
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Like the pocket hunter and the rocker
the arrastra is fast becoming a thing of
the past in the gold fields of the west
But like the veteran of the rocker and
trail, the arrastra played an important
part in the development of America’s
choicest industry. And to its credit let
it be said that the arrastra played well
its part. The few crumbling remains of
the old time mills, hand-made and crude,
are fitting reminders of the day, not over
fifty years ago, when mining was a Indie
inarms. These bramble covered relics
Oregon Belle Company.
of a bygone age tel) more eloquently
than words of the great progress the
Messrs. II. E. Foster and A. II. Gun­
mining industry of America has made— nell visited the Oregon Relle property
a progress that is not equalled, or at ' near Jacksonville this week, of which
least not outdone by any other industry they are the managers for N. Y. and
of this country. Still, men sometimes Western Mining Co., and they re|x>rt
deplore the slow progress of the mining development as going ahead rapidly.
business of America. Truly, it is a long, Mr. Gunnell has been in the East for
long cry from the crude arrastra and its ’ over a year on business connected with
dragging stones of fifty years ago, to the 1 the company operating this mine and he
great cyanide plants and thundering ■ rejxirts the owners of the property as
stamp batteries of today.
highly pleased with the property, that
The arrastra is purely of Mexican or 1 the stock has gone to par value and that
Spanish origin, flown there where I it has ta-en withdrawn from the market.
mules tramped out the pure metal from ' Foster and Gunnell are enterprising
the rich muck, the arrastra had its begin- i young gentlemen who believe in this
ning. It first done service in America in I country and are doing everything in
California, on the blood-red tracts of the ' their jKiser to build it up. Mr. Gunnell
Buccaneer. Then it followed the line of* says that much interest is being taken
gold hunters northward, climbing the | in Southern Oregon in Eastern mining
Siskiyous, coming down into the pine- circles and that he gave the country a
covered hills of Oregon.
thorough advertising as far as lay within
A few «lays since, while traveling thru’ his power.—Oregon Mining Journal.
the Southern Oregon mineral fields, I
came upon two relics of the old «lays—
Placer Prospecting Drill.
a broken down arrastra and an ancient
rocker. Both bad seen good service dur­
One of the latest and possibly the best
ing the palmy days, both had «lone their
work, ami done it well. Not far from I devices for prosjiecting placer ground is
the crumbling pioneers, mute witnesses a seven-inch drill that is now Ix-ing per­
of the day when the miner went to his fected ami constructed by Messrs. Potter
diggings each morning with a pistol in and Clements, of San Francisco, who are
his holster and a rifle on his shoulder; now in Grants Pass. The machine will
not far from these, towers a great stamp be operated by hand and a mull bit will
mill, like some great hungry monster, he used, which will enable the operators
squatted and gnawing at the very vitals to sink a (JO or 71) foot hole in a day in
of the everlasting mountains. And just soft ground. It is proposed to fit the
a little distance further on, n hydraulic machine with but about 75 feet of shaft­
giant hurls its mighty shaft of white ing as they think that will be as deep as
against the gravel bank, melting the hills will be required for pros|>ectiiig the
away and rubbing them of their gold. auriferous ground of Southern Oregon.
Here they were, the old and the new! The drill will be built on the “take­
Though they were but a few yards apart, down” plan Htid can be carried upon the
there was the distance of half a century backs of three pack animals. The shaft­
between them. The entire history of ing is of I % inch pipe and is cut to ten
mining from the beginning in this coun­ foot sections. The entire work of con­
try was mutely told in that brief step structing the drill is being done at
from the arrastra to tlie stamp mill, Grants Pass and is said to be first class
from the bramble-covered pit and stones in every respect. Messrs. Potter and
and wooden cog wheels, to the towering Clements are prospectors of many year's
mill house and its thundering bat­ experience and have used a drill former­
ly similiar to this one and have been
tery of stamps.
quite
successful in operating it. They
Just above tlie old arrastra, from which
expect
to prospect, not only on their
an ore chute led in the days of yoie, are
own
account
but for other parties who
tlie ‘‘coyote diggings” that supplied the
have
placer
ground
which they wish to
rich rock to the crude mill. A gray-
have
thoroughly
prospected.
liaired Old-Timer who was on the ground
said that nearly a half-minion was taken
SICK HEADACHE.
from those diggings, ground from the
oxidized ores. Cleanup every week, and
This distressing ailment results from a
such a clean-up! Then the proposition disordered condition of the stomach. All
“pinched,” and the miners moved on in that is needed to effect a cure is a dose or
two of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver
quest of other fields. Since that time a Tablets. In fact, the attack may be warded
genqine prospector, whose limitations off, or greatly lessened in severity, by
are not gauged by the length of his taking a dose of these Tablets as soon as
shovel handle, has sunk on the |K>t-holc the first symptom of an attack appears.
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and struck the main ledge. Then came
the big mill and*a million dollar mine.
POISONS IN FOOD.
The arrastra served only to scratch the
Perhaps
you don't realize that manv
surface, but surely it was an infallible
pain
poisons
originate in your food, but
indication of better things deeper down.
some day you may feel a twinge of dys­
It led tlie way to the ledge-ribbed moun­ pepsia that will convince you. Dr.
tains iron1 which the capital and genius King’s New life Pills are guaranteed to
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