Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-11-30


miles bsyond, some rich veins of silver-bear-
ing quartz havsbe found, and a party Of
miners left this place yesterday with the ins
tcntion Of wintcring in that region-this ore
1.-THE HUMIDITY is found in veins with galena.
L In the Mono. Lake country some rich dis
coveries have been made. SOME specimens
of ore from lead known IS the Esmaralo, 4
thing lately struck, has created some excite
met here and quite number Of our miners
have made a rush in that direction-this ore
is rich both in gold and silver. Many rest
less spirits are now glancing eagerly toward
the Goose Creek Mountains, Bear River, and
the sweetwater, waiting only for spring to
start on tour Of wild adventure, to meet
midway and shake hands with like hardy
prospectors scouting out from Pixies Peak.
That there is region some four or Ave
hundred miles east Of us, where gold and
silver il to be found rolling in every hill and
glittering in every brook, is the firm belief If
many miner, and no doubt, ere this time
next season some wonderful if not valuable
discoveries viii be made. ri q ao4 'i'' 4
4 The miner in prospecting for silver gcner-
ally makes use of acids--rock supposed to
contain this metal is reduced to fine pow
der the lighter parts are then foated off by
means Of water, and the heavy matterremain.
ing in the horn-spoon is then placed in .
porcelain cup or Florence flask with three
times its bulk of slightly diluted nitric acid
and the whole boiled over the fame of a can
die until the vapor comes off white or agita-
ton among the particles cease, when it is al
lowed to settle or is filtered into small vial
or test tube. Now we have the clear acid
with the silver in solution, common salt is
now to be dissolved in p,srs water until a
strong brine is formed. BY pouring small
quantity Of this brine into the test-tube, if
the solution contains silver it will immediate.
ly assume white clotted appearance similar
to sour milk which will soon settle to the
bottom Of the tube and is the chloride of
silver. This chloride. on being exposed to
the light Of the sun, changes from white to
q beautiful purple color and eventually to
brown and to black. This change Of color is
good proof of the chloride being that of
silver, as there are other metals that form a
sort of chloride somewhat resembling that of
silver, though certain amount Of water
added will dissolve the chloride of lead while
it does not effect that Of silver, and further
by placing the chloride of silver on charcoal
and blowing upon it the fame Of . candle
through blow-pipe or common clay, tobac-
co.pipc button Of metallic silver will be pro-
duced. dt 9H m3a w 4u#jAal g..s
There is great variety Of metals to be
met with in this country we have iron al
most in a maleable state, copper, lead, zinc,
cobolt, plumbago, antimony, palladium, pla-
tinun,, gold, silver and some other metals
Our miners have found metals which have
puzzled our best assayers, and in large guam
titles at that. There is a place in the Hen
ness pass on the side of mountain, where
is found an immense amount of metal
which none of our assayers or those in Cali
fornia are able to name or determin the nature
Of It was at first supposed to be platinum,
and being lucky enough to secure forty feet
in the lode, myself and few other lucky(!)
hombr<s, used to amuse ourselves by setting
up at night and making calculations of the
amount per ton our rock would be worth
After a week, spent thus happily, and nu-
merous meetings and calculations, VIC decided
that our ore was worth somewhere between
forty and one hundred and seventy thousand
dollars per ton, and let the matter 60 as it
would we were worth millions and tens and
hundreds Of millions-but alas! there came
a telegraph dispatch from San Francisco,
that our platina mine was not platina! What
was it then? Don't know--insoluble in acids
mot affected by heat-don't know what
the de-dickens it is. Then we held sort
Of indignation meeting and voted the whole
tribe Of assayers and metal-lurgists a set Of
humbugs, who were only fit to steal the
/" honest miners" money and didn't know
: good article Of platinum when they saw it,
or else--yes, that's the idea !--they know its
Of immense value, and have only sent this
discouragiug return to get US to leave, 80 they
may get possession Of our mine. But We
won't be fooled, wen fight to the last-if we
ever catch them near our mine wen slaugh-
ter the bloody file o'them." And 50 ended
our brigh. visions of wealth. We have an
almost endless variety Of rocks; good lime
stone, gypsum and variety of meerschaum
almost il not quite equal to the genuine for
beauty, lightness and excellence-the amber
mouthpiece Of one Of which is now between
the lips Of your humble correspondent.
. - # DAN De QuLLE.
RIGHT FOB OScE.--I learn from q relia.
BILE source that President Buchanan not only
condemns the doctrine of secession, but that
he stands by the Proclamation Of Gen. Jack
son, issued in December, 1882, against the
notification experiment Of John G. Calhoun.
The President is giving especial attention to
the principle laid down in this celebrated State
naner "A well A. to its history. He denies q