The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-10-27

tnlS WOuLQ Cc ldtAi Is l was sure tuC
Durango ore carried more than 3 per
cent. zinc blende.
The Pioneer mill published a price
list in your paper some time ago
wherein their prices were not as good
as those being paid by Rose, Reed &
Cos. Sampllng works, within ten to
forty dollars per ton. They of course
could get no ore on such terms, and
particularly as every one felt suspl-
cion of Mr.. Jacobs management. Re-
Gently they hove posted notices about
town that they would give 81 more
per ton than the market price. They
seem to be possessed of sort of in
nate crookedness on this subject and
to get them to say Just what they will
pay for ore is quite impossible.
The first thing you are told when
you 60 to their mill for prices, is that
Professor" Jacobs has built fine
mill, completely equipped and every
thing arranged most perfectly par
ticularly is there a most complete ar
rangement to preclude all possible
chance Of " Professor 4" Jacobs cheat
ing you. You are shown how and
where the ore goes in and how and
where it comes out, and you are SOL
emnly assured that there isn't the
least chance for Mr. Jacobs to cheat
you; you are virtuously informed, or
it is lntimated to you pretty strongly,
that every other mill cheats, but that
Professor P" Jacobs has in this struc-
ture Of his, at last found a way of
making a mill automatically honest,
you are assured so often of this fact
and in Mr.. Jacobs peculiarly unctuous
way, that you either involuntarily be-
gin to look around for the colored
gentleman in the wood pile or exper-
fence feeling OF regret that Diogines
and the =" Professor" had not lived in
the same age, that between them both
they might have discovered some way
of making the human machine also
automatically upright. If any one
has ever succeeded in getting fixed
definite price for ore from the Pioneer
Mill Company, he has succeeded where
have failed after repeated attempts.
l desire to call your attention to a
series of articles published in the Min
ing Ree0rdthe latter part oflast year and
the eallypart of this, from the pen ofMr.
Jacobs. These articles | think en-
+ braccd a series of reviews ofthe differ
ent camps from the San Juan to Gothic
and this camp The particular arti-
Gle to which refer l think came out
'ieomctime in January or first of Feb
4 ruary 1857 and Ruby camp
are treated of in that article, and in
which Mr.. Jacobs gives a most glow
ing account of Ruby camp, and his
opinions there are entirely contrary
to those he now processes to hold. He
Of course must have visited the mines
at that time, else how could he have
formed an opinion? and if he did ex-
anime them how does it tally with
his present statement, that until only
very recently had he examined the
mines here and found them worthless.
!; 1t looks as if the i" Professor was a
little like that celebrated flea. In
that article so glowing was his account
of the mines here that some thought
it was too much of good thing
Now when one can nauseate mining
f man with glowing reports he must in
deed be possessed OF wonderful gifts
in that direction. l judge, however,
that the Professor 4" has tremendous
) nauseating powers, if Commodore
Webb's looks and actions while here
was fair sample OF the manner in
which his victims are affected. Alas
is not this the sum and substance of
the matter. Between "Pnilip drunk
and Philip sober how beautiful is the
difference. Give Mr.. Jacobs another
innocent unsuspecting MIR. Webb to
pluck of $500 per day and will
he not even find in the barren sea
sands of Coney Island, his much de-
sired primitive rock, with true and IN
exhaustable fssure veins.
Professor" Jacobs says that he
was simply employed to erect the mill
as mechanic, that is, he Ii: Substance
says that Mr.. Webb, who knows no
more about mill or a mine than the
burros on a thousand hills, employed
HIM, professor in the art of mining,
to come here and erect mill at cost
Of $4,000, that he, as a scientific
man, knew or should have known
could not treat the ores. Do you not
really believe yourself Professor"
that every sensible man will refuse to
,llo-, yo,, +o +,ke c,ch feehle ehelter ,