operty of the German-American MonaziteCompany, which employed about 25 men, who washed out about 1% tonsof cleaned sand each week. Their workable gravel was from 20 to 100yards wide, and extended for a half mile up and down the creek. Inobtaining this gravel they had to remove an overburden of from… … 51 different colored monazite sands, which were obtained from gravels notmore than 100 yards apart. The product from one portion gave a sandof decided greenish color, the second a brownish red sand, and the thirda yellowish. The greenish sand was found in the gravels along thesmall branch, while…
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