Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-18
GOLD IN A cows STOMACH.
A stamp-Miii Hun without steam
or Engines TO Turn Out Precious
Metals nj an Enormous Rate.

nose-he stepped ND to the register and
wrote fearlessly, careless of all conse-
quences and charges for extra fires,
"Will /. Visscher, Cheyenne" Then he
sent for the state veterinarian, the city
veterinarian, the U. p veterinarian and
any other man who might have seen the
untamed, woolly Wyoming maverick in
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 Pm here,
and I'll write poem abont the diamond
| in your shirt-front there" Clerk Hen
shaw locked the dazzling bauble in the
safe, and rs 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 q scheme hopes
to have ii Matched out before night" re-
turned MIR. HenSnaW.
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 q feck of hydrophobic foam, Edison
n n.,l-a nf l, 10
lights, while Koch will fade away to the
music OF his own consumptive cough.
Gentlemen, am Il made man. DO you
happen to like gold?"
1--WE do happen" was chorused by
half a 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. want you to use
your influences and we will all be wealthy
We will charter yacht and fill 'er up
with wine, and we'll 90 to Europe, where
wickednessis gilded, and everything goes.
Dost like the picture?"
owe do, we do"
~ have discovered process that will
revolutionize the treatment of the
precious metals. can put up thou
sand, or three thousand, or twenty thou
sand stamp mill for almost nothing. l
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"
"What is it," and the veterinary gen
tlemen drew closer their circle around
the bald head that shone so brightly in
their midst with its halo of glamorous
light.
"Cowsw
"Cows?"
"Cowsv'
"Good gracious"
"Well may you say good gracious.
That exclamation will not do Justice to
the occasion, when you learn that when
you have provided the cattle to be used
in the bovinous treatment, will furnish
the gold free of every cost, except that of
freight, on all Shipments
"But how will you do this? How is
all this to be done?" and the State vet
erinarians shook their heads with an in
credulous shake.
"Come with me-" and the Cheyenne
humorist donned his last years ulsterette
and led the party to the Union Pacific
general headquarters up stairs and into
the room occupied by Sam Nash. In
one corner was lump of something that
had the appearance OF n dirty piece of
rock. With grandiloquent flourish of
his arm "Vissch" cried, "There il is,
gentlemen; there's the foundation rock
of our fortune" and he patted the dirty
rock affectionately, while Mr.. Nash stood
approvingly by and thought of raising
freight rates on that particular article.
but what has that got to do with the
scheme?"
Everything, sir; everything. Put
your tongue to that. Salty, amt it?
Look here" and he pointed to a bit OF
paper attached to the rock, bearing the
words, "Salt, So per cent; residue and
mineral, 10 per cent gold 81 per ton"
That's where the fortune comes in,
and where my self-acting, patent, noise
less boyinous stamp-mill appears. Now,
here's the scheme: All you have to do
is to buy the cattle; they eat it; when
one has eaten ton o. SATISFIES got seven
uoilars worm OIL gold inside o. her. The
acids OF the stomach act on the ore and
dissolve the salt, leaving nothing but the
gold in its pure state. After the COW has
eaten about twenty tons OF salt and gets
about $50 worth OF gold in her stomach,
she's got q big load on and she dies
When she dies it's sign she's ripe and
ready to be picked. We rip her open and
extract the gold then we sell her for
about $50 for meat, and we make 5000 n
head. We can buy all the steers we
want for 800 clear profit of over $3.50,
With 1900 head that makes-that
makes"
"Oh, never mind what that makes. Is
that what you sent for us to see ?"
Did you expect to have me bring the
gold ?" WV
Mr.. Visscher has gone hack to Chcy-
enne, and is now arranging stock com
pany, but not with the assistance of
Omaha men. lie has on exhibit several
retorts which he swears were turned ont
by dyspeptic Texas steer. He saws that
with good able-bodied cattle he can heat
any 4O-stamp mill that was ever put up,
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