The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-03-30
TRICKS OK ASSAYERS.
A ChemisG Relates Some Export
ences III His Business.


room but the assayers." looked at the
speaker with an expression Of injured in
nocence, writes a correspondent Of the New
York Moit and Empress He was the member
of the great firm of chemists whose certifi-
cate as to the output of mine would be
worth fortune if favorable ''Sorry TO
offend you, sir" he continued, shut we as
sumo chat every man who comes here is a
knave."
ms aroused my curiosity, and improved
the first opportunity to ask an expert as
sayer to explain these mlsanthropc senti-
ments. DR. I.edoux, a famous chemist con
nected with the firm mentioned above, sat
ished me that they were wen founded - We
can nardly rust our own senses, " he said.
:" nave known a sample of ore TO yield
heavy percentage of gold when its owner
was present at the test and none at all
when he was absent. How can that bel
Well, in this instance | saw nothing wrong,
but recently | was conducting an assay in
the presence of the owner of the sample
and noticed that he was chewing toba ,ro
very vigorously and also gong to The ASSAY
furnace to eXpectorate INTO the fire Watch
ing him narrowly | saw him spit INTO the
crucibe, and, Selling him by the throat.
forced out of his mouth the TOBACCO and
along with it a quantity OF gold dust, which
he was attempting to get INTO the crucible-
this was to make his assay run high. II
would require very lutte gold thus added
to an ounce of ore to make difference
OF many hundreds Of dollars per ton in the
result
1.-The most singular attempt at swindle
which we have ever come across was in
connection with 'Gabrel's Sword You
may remember that in the month Of May,
1883, the papers in Ulster and Sullivan Coun-
ties and the New York daily papers were
widely excited over most remarkable dis
covery back of Kingston, N. Y. strange
sword had fallen from the skies and had
been discovered in the town of Rochester,
Ulster County
Some time IN July following, long
haired individual came into our Office stag
gering under the weight of box seven
feet long with cross piece near one end
about two feet in length. He asked if we
would assay any thing, and on being as
sured that we would, pulled out screw
driver and carefully unscrewed his box, out
OF which he took sword. 1t was a curious
weapon nearly seven feet long and so heavy
that could scarcely lift the point from the
ground with one hand by taking hold of the
handle. 1t was covered with Hebrew or
Phoenec;an charac,ors ,nn,ranu ma 49,,
cred with rude tipnrcs n mon and oni,a,s
This marking WAC onlv ,,nar,nt ,,horo ,ha
rust with which most of .hc yeanon ,yaa
heavily corroded had hcer ru,hod ~
oI'he ma, said thu. l,o vv.s ,hc disco,.ro .
of this strange sword and ,yos ovb,h;,,n,,
IL about tho country. thot .o,rc ,,,no,io,,ore
mad scotyed at b,s et,ton,n,,r ,h,t =, cove
from a sniritual world and that he dosirod
ua IN make IN assov ar !, Va ,uo,,, 49,; I,
WAS oenuine Ua .,o,od fn,.,h,r ,h,, ~
,ts annearancc and r,n,, ,,.hon !, ,,os s,,.,o,,
one would pa,uralIv ,al,c !, 70 ho s,.a, h,,t
that ha haa hoor In ,;,,,ao ,,,., q t,no,..,,;.s.
and vae s.m,har with rao,,ls vi ,I,,, :,
WAC ha on;n;on that !, ,y.s ,on,,o'',,S ~
silver ana IRON and ,s,,o5 No ,,,ha,to'lh
An allow was not uncommo,
AZ to,d him ,as nf ..ours, ,,o,
nmnhantlv addea Nv, ,,.',,, ,.a,,
SOW THO s,uord IVA e,i'.a 'oa ..;a,..
that II is ne;,har iro, 60. -, ~, -,
contairin q s;lvor and ,,,an, 49,, " -. 49,
yonr certi fcato ,ha. - ~" IL. COY ".
n.ea in this World for s,l,, va 10y . nos
would not ha,,a thn haua, 90 an'1:,.. ua..
and other charocteristics, 'hiah az. a,,ass
nossessos ''''' '"''"
al was i,teras,ed and ,mr.,.a and o.o,a
N maize tho ,as, rhn a,d ,,.',, anu - .soa
inns not w. ynn,i1ota tho ,,.ana 'oo nn :, a
ayrea5 thot no sha,Ia .,a ~, ....; :. 80. We
,Iooa ,,,horo - a ,,,,. po. .on I'm
and osso, tho air p ',o'''l;,s 80.
!, yvas nn,h,n, hnt s,aa, al io , 49, .';a'
1enselv snrn;sed ,,,hor ON. -, w. hh.
un LARGE silver hn.,on ,.hi,,, ~ S Soa s.,
tainad fror, ,ho ,,,;,,aa ,r,a ~, u. 'i." W.
triumphant. hut / was nj on.a ON nv mrara
as / scented a svind,e !, n., va 10y sua.a'
nossihle y coat thn sn.r,o., ,,,i,, - " ,,,. e'
luton which would dr, IN . m' , snse' ~. ~
result which we fonnd and rae,aoa y. ,r aug
him a certificote Sy,thnmt fnr,ba ~ se
He readily aconiesced in ,n,s an5 -, 10.
he had rather ant,cin,,od s,,.h SOW 'u, vn"'