| Summary: | Kougarok Gold Gravel Moving: Dredge Being Added To Hydraulics By Alaska Continental, Spokane Company./High Benches Next./ If Keystone Tests Satisfactory, Third Operation Will Be Started, Says Trustee. KOUGAROK GOLD GRAVEL MOVING Dredge Being Added to Hydraulics by Alaska Continental, Spokane Company. HIGH BENCHES NEXT If Keystone Tests Satisfactory, Third Operation Will Be Started, Says Trustee. Gravel is flying on the property of the Alaska Continental Gold Mining company, a Spokane corporation, on the Seward peninsula of Alaska. Three hydraulic giants are ripping out the low benches and a fourth is stacking the gravel, according to a report received by Allan H. Toole, a trustee. The loosened gravel is moving through the sluice boxes and dropping its nuggests and fine gold into the riffles. The great dredging boat installed by a predeccessor and rebult by the Spokane operators, is about to begin its performance. It is floating on the Kougarok river, from which it removed the greater part of $4,000,000 in gold which the Kougarok district is reported to have yielded, said Mr. Toole. The dredging was on ground adjoining up the river. Owns Miles of Ground. The company owns property absve and below the dredging scene, 6000 feet below and eight miles above, on Henry creek, a tributary stream, and on large placer areas on the side, he said yesterday. Operations for many years are foreseen. The Alaska Continental is shipping a Keystone portable drill for testing high and low benches on areas adjoining its claims along the river and creek. If the tests are satisfactory the tundra, or moss, which is 18 inches deep, will be removed from the surface with a hydraulic giant at the rate of an acre a day to the man and the giant, it is estimated. Bared of its mossy insulation, the frozen gravel will thaw under the rays of the summer sun. Two Trustees at Operations. With the aid of water in a large volume and draglines, the gravel will be moved into sluice boxes for the on usual passage of the gravel and the deposition of gold in the riffles. Two other trustees, William J. Porter and L. R. Burrows, are on the property, at which they arrived recently. The operating crew is active at differenct places. The company owns its ground and equipment, said Mr. Toole. No offer of partnership in it has been made. The opportunity of participating may be given, but not until this trio, joined in a syndicate, have been convinced by their efforts that the quality of the ground is as good as they would have it, and then for expansion of operations and equipment. They will pass several months and spend several thousand dollars in the investigation. Whether they incorporate will depend on the results.
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