The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1891-10-16
Mining to Become a Pastime.

90 1t seemed that the miners path
would thereafter be strewn with
roses, but it did not then occur to us
that even with a machine to treat
base ores at dollar ton, it would
be necessary to find the ore; but be-
fore the disappointing influence of
that fact had utterly destroyed all
hope, we learn through the columns
of the Denver Times, that ''profcs-
sor'' has found prospector's divin-
ing rod, and happy days seem again
all now wanting to
make a miners life sublime, is a
simple invention to dig and deliver
the ore and market the bullion.
Here find and described the divining
rod:
Mining men about the State are
considerably worked up over a new
invention that bids fair to revolu-
tionize the methods of mining. The
invention consists of an instrument
with which, it is claimed, may be
located veins of gold, silver, copper,
zinc, lead, iron and coal, and the in
ventor claims that the indications of
his instrument are infalliable. The
inventor is Professor l.. S. Kimball,
of California, and if what he claims
is true his device is one of the Won
ders of the age.
President G. +. Bachelor, of the
Emmons Mining Company, has test
ed the invention most thoroughly
and says that there is no doubt that
it is all that is claimed. In CONVEX
sation with a Times reporter this
morning, Mr.. Bachelor said:
"When l first heard of the thing l
set it down as fake and refused to
have anything to do with it. Thereon
johnson came to me and said that he
had seen the man work in California
and was convinced that everything
was all right and that there was no
humbug about it. He brought the
man into my Office and made me a
proposition to test the value of the
invention on the Emmons group of
mines. l at first refused, but as he
offered to pay his own expenses and
charge nothing for his work unless
he proved to my satisfaction that he
could do what he said, l at last con-
sented.
"Well, to make long story short.
he did everything he claimed, and
more, too, and proved to me and tc
other men that he could locate min
eral bodies accurately with his in
strument. He located ore bodies fol
us, the presence of which we had
never even suspected, and as we be-
came convinced we followed his in.
structions more fully and have open.
ed up rich veins that without his
direction might always have remain.
ed hidden.
s'The instrument which he uses is
hollow metal point about six inch.
es in length, which he says is filled
with chemicals. Into the end o1
this point are screwed two steel rods
about two feet in length, and arounc
which are wound several hundred
feet of copper wire. These rod
stick out like handles of a plow ano
are held in the hand like witch haze
stick, with the point away from the
body. When the instrument arriv
es over a body of ore the points turl
down, indicating to the holder tina
he is over the ore body.
ga different point is used for eacl
of the different minerals, as the one
for gold will not indicate the pres
ence of silver or other mineral anc
vice versa. Professor kimball ha.
located many rich bodies of ore dur
ing the past two months and he il
kept constantly employed.
"He says that as soon as he get
an opportunity he will visit Edison
and thinks that the great invento
can with the help of the information
possessed by the professor, invent I
prosess of extracting gold, silver ane
other metals from ore by the, use O
electricity. He says that if the met
al can draw the needle toward it, i
stands to reason that with power
say a thousand times greater, thu
metal would be drawn from the rock
by the needle. 1t is this increase O
power that he wishes to obtain.
"When asked how he came to dis