Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-18
GOLD IN A cows STOMACH.
A stamp-miII Run without steam
or Engines to Turn Out Precious
Metals at an Enormous kate.

# Bald. blonde and beatifc-all but hi
: nose-he stepped up to the register an
d wrote fearlessly, careless of all conse
If quences and charges for extra fires
T sWill L. visscher, Cheyenne" Then n
b sent for the state veterinarian, the cit
d veterinarian, the u P. veterinarian ant
s any other man who might have seen tn
e untamed, woolly Wyoming maverick IL
r all his pristine glory. "Send these gen
; tlemen up to my parlors when they ar
: rive," said the man from Cheyenne
"and, say. don't tell anyone I'm here
and I'll write poem about the diamond
} in your shirt-front there" Clerk Hen
| shaw locked the dazzling bauble in the
safe, and as extra precautionary measure
against the poem told everyone he knew
, that Mr. Visscher, the poet-ornate and
ornery of the Rockies, had arrived.
@Sh-h, have scheme" whispered
the Cheyenne capitalist, as he walked to
the elevator.
In due time the delivers in hoof-rot
lore put in an appearance. Where is
our distinguished co-laborer and eminent
SCIENTIST" they asked in one breath.
Groom Ill, setting on ascheme hopes
to have it Matched out before night, +" re-
turned Mr.. Henshaw.
The specialists in lumpy-jaw were
ushered into the presence of the savant of
the foothills.
Gentlemen" opened Mr.. Visscher,
81 have made, probably, the greatest dis
covery of the age. am on the high
road to fame and fortune, in comparison
with which Pasteur will become as light
as feck of hydrophobic foam, Edison
will flare and flicker out like one of his
lights, while Koch will fade away to the
music of his own consumptive cough.
Gentlemen, am made man. Do you
happen to like gold?"
ave do happen" was chorused by
half dozen voices with such vigor and
unanimity that Mr.. Visscher was startled, |
and his nose lost that hectic flush which |
the owner had often wished he could
transfer to the poker hand in front of |
him.
''Then listen to me. You are men of
influence, men of standing, and can OBJ
tain unlimited credit. l want you to use
your influences and we will all be wealthy.
We will charter a yacht and fill Ter up
with wine, and we'll 60 to Europe, where
wickedness is gilded, and everything goes.
Dost like the pictureo"
owe do, we do"
ri have discovered process that will
revolutionize the treatment of the
precious metals. 1 can put up thou
sand, or three thousand, or twenty thou
sand stamp mill for almost nothing. I
can take gold ores so refractory they
would lick their mother Earth and never
shed tear, and extract the gold without
the use of steam engines, stamps,
crushers, or anything else except some
thing directly in your line, gentlemen,
directly in your line''
s'What is it? ' and the veterinary gem
tlemen drew closer their circle around
the bald head that shone so brightly in [
their midst with it's halo of glamorous
light.
"Cows!"
"Cows?" s
"Cows!"
GOOD gracious!"
We'll may you say good gracious. /.
That exclamation will not do Justice to
he occasion, when you learn that when
vou have provided the cattle to be used
n the bovinous treatment, will furnish
he gold free OF every cost, except that of .
reight, on all shipments
"But how will you do this? How is :
IL this to be done?" and the State vet
rinarians shook their heads with an in lo
shake. F
Come with me-" and the Cheyenne
umorist donned his last years. ulsterette r
nd led the party to the Union Pacific /
eneral headquarters up stairs and into F.
ne room occupied by Sam Nash. In &c
ne corner was a lump of something that
ad the appearance of dirty piece of 1
ock. With grandiloquent flourish of q
is arm ''Vissch" cried, "There it is, 10 10
entlemen; there's the foundation rock
our fortune" and he patted the dirty
'ck aftectlonately, while Mr. Nash stood Z
Dprovlngly by and thought of raising -
eight rates on that particular article. m,
But what has that got to do with the
;heme?" r
Everything, sir; everything. Put T.
our tongue to that. Salty, amt it? In
ook here,' and he pointed to bit of are
per attached to the rock, bearing the =
ords, salt, S5 per cent; residue and
neral Ie1 10 per cent; gold 81 per ton" -
That's where the fortune comes in. T.
ID where my self-acting, patent, noise Ha
IS oovlnous stamp-mill appears. Now, Wis
res the scheme: All you have to do =
to buy the cattle; they eat it; when -
e has eaten ton o. SATISFIES got seven =
liars worth of gold inside o. her. The IA
ids OF the stomach act on the ore and "
solve the salt, leaving nothing but the ~
ID in its pure state. After the COW has Il
ZEN about twenty tons OF salt and gets r,
out $3.50 worth of gold in her stomach
rs got big load on and she dies
hen she dies it's sign she's ripe and
Idy to be picked. Werip her open and 90,
'ract the gold; then we sell her for oe''
'ut 500 for meat, and we make 5000 a w
ld. We can buy all the steers we pen'
Mt Tor $50 clear profit of over $50 tS on
tn 1900 head that makes-that EN-,
keS- and
Oh, never mind what that makes. Is 10
What you sent for us to see ?" nish
DID you expect to have me bring the No
[r. Visscher has gone back to Chew.
e, and is now arranging stock com
y, but not with the assistance Of I,
aha men. He has on exhibit several ID
rus which ne swears were turned out
oysPeptlc Texas steer. He SAYS that
good able-bodied cattle he can heat
4O-stamp mill that was ever put nm obi,
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