![]() ![]() DREDGE WAS ABANDONED ON SITE AFTER TERMINATION OF OPERATION.Ĭomment (Deposit): FARNSWORTH'S ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION STATED THAT THE HIGHER PAYING ZONES IN AREA LIE IN SLIGHTLY CONSOLIDATED GRAVELS BENEATH IRON OXIDE-CEMENTED CONGLOMERATE AND ABOVE LAYER OF "BLUE CLAY," (NOW INTERPRETED AS EOCENE BEDROCK). EXCESS WATER FROM DREDGE WAS USED TO IRRIGATE LAW'S GRAIN AND HAY FIELDS NEARBY. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT LAW RECOVERED $115000 WORTH OF AU BY DREDGING AND $25000 BY SLUICING. DREDGE PROCESSED GROUND THAT RAN ABOUT $0.25/YD (OLD AU PRICE). MACHINE WAS FUELED BY COAL THAT WAS HAULED IN BY WAGON ABOUT 19 MILES FROM MINE AT SAVERY, WY. OF KANSAS CITY, MO, WITH 600-TO 700-YD/DAY CAPACITY. WHEN HE PURCHASED IT, LAW'S DREDGE WAS A SECONDHAND OPEN-CHAIN TYPE BUILT BY URIE CO. LAW BUILT WATER DIVERSION DITCH FROM FOURMILE DIVIDE (POSSIBLY THE DIVIDE BETWEEN FOURMILE DRAINAGE AND SLATER CREEK) TO WILLOW CREEK, LET WATER RUN DOWN STREAM BED FOR SEVERAL MILES, THEN DIVERTED IT TO HIS DREDGE SITE. General Physiographic Area: Rocky Mountain SystemĬomment (Workings): DREDGE OPERATION AND GROUND SLUICINGĬomment (Development): ACCORDING TO MARKS (1915), B.W.
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