The record-union., 1892-03-31
MILLIONS IN IT."
A Sacramentan's Queer Device for Lo-
eating Minerals.
Professor Kimball's Achievements in
Colorado-The 'sMother Lode'' in
California Unexplored.

A REcoRD-UNIoN reporter had very
interesting interview yesterday with
Professor L. J. Kimball, the electro
magnetic mining expert and mineral To-
Gator" of this city, who recently returned
from visit of several months to Colo
RADIO. Professor Kimball is the inventor,
or discoverer, of an instrument by which
he claims to be able to locate the presence
of any mineral-bearing lode or ledge,
pocket or other kind of deposit,
whether of gold, silver, iron, tin, copper,
or other metal.
This instrument, he says, is the result
of several years. study and experiment.
When he had completed it he visited the
mining regions of FL Dorado, Placer,
Amador and neighboring counties, and,
although he showed the owners of mining
properties where they might find ore
bearing lodges, they were too skeptical
and declined to experiment, believing the
Professors plan to be one of those wild
and chimerical schemes that SO frequently
come to the front, only TO die natural
death.
However, Professor Kimball made a
pretty thorough prospecting tour of the
counties named, at his own expense,
and established-to his own satisfaction
certain alleged facts, which will be re-
terred to farther on.
Realizing the truth of the old adage,
that "a prophet is without honor in his
own country" Professor Kimball boxed
up his little electrical apparatus and
started for Colorado, where, after a while,
he found mine owners who were disposed
TO listen to him and to test the efficacy of
his plan for locating ore-bodies. One of
q &c nd in ha nj oil
gram from Fremont, published III the
Colorado Springs Republic and Telegraph
of March 24th:
Professor Kimball appears to have been
verified In big strike which has just come to
light.
Six young men, composing the Rosette Min
ing Company, began TO sink shaft at Profes-
sor kimbalps direction, in Beaver Park. The
indications were decidedly unfayorabe, for
they were going through solid granite rock,
with no indication of mineral. They became
discouraged when down forty feet, and offered
TO sell at 5000. KimbalI heard of it and
offered to put up the cash and buy it. They
observed that he had still great faith in the
mine, and so would not sell out, and kept on
digging.
At sixty feet they uncovered pay streak
three feet in width, but the exact extent of
which is not yet known.
The samples of rock brought in show mug
gets of almost solid gold as large as the end of
a lead pencil, while the whole rock is covered
with flakes and wires of the same bright
to the ton, and the enthusiastic owners say
this Will be a fair average of the valuation of
the whole body of mineral.
Your correspondent is assured of the above
facts, having talked with two gentlemen who
saw the ore.
The same paper contains announce
ments from other camps where rich ore
bodies had been found as located by
Professor kimball. He also has a letter
from /. j. Woodwork, President Of the
Town Improvement Company of Green
Mountain Falls, Col, who writes, under
date of March 9th:
Professor Il. j. RmlbaU. Sacramento: Shake !
The day is dawning. The young men Tor
whom you located claim in Beaver Park
have struck it to the tune of $35, 900 per ton.
The lead you examined at FlorisSant is pro
qucing htty-two ounces of silver per ton.
.Iwett has worked his tunnel one week and
has assays running thirteen ounces OF silver
per ton.
The Rocky Mountain Denver) NeaoS of
recent date states that the Atlantic and
Pacific Tunnel Company had closed a
contract with Professor Kim ball to visit
their tunnel with his apparatus and test
all that has been discovered in the way of
veins and TO locate pockets inside the line
of the tunnel.
sKEPTIC CONVERTED.
The Colorado Springs paper above
quoted says: re. X. Stark got back from
Cripple Creek yesterday. He was in
camp IN company with Professor Kim
ball, who claims to have found an instru-
ment by which he can locate metals un-
derneath the ground. Mr.. Stark de-
clares that he went up a skeptic, but re-
turns converted. 1t has always been
supposed that there were no metals that
had an attraction for gold, but Mr. Stark
is convinced that Kimball has found such
a thing. From his words we get a de-
scription of the work done.
THE WONDERFUL INSTRUMENT.
"Kimball's instrument is shaped like a
triangle, and at one of the points of the
triangle is suspended the needle, The
wizard has needles for three differents
kinds of metal, gold, silver and copper,
and when searching for any one of the
metals uses particular point. Kimball
carries the instrument in his hands and
the action of the machine becomes very
violent as 1t is carried over lode of min
eral, so much so that an ordinary man
has difficulty in holding it steadily. AS
the instrument passes over the mineral
the needle point dips, and remains so
until carried beyond the metal when n
again rises. The instrument is true to it.
self in that 1t dips at exactly the same
place when carried over the point of min
eral located.
AS test Kimball viii permit himself
to be blindiolded, when the machine will
act the same as if he We're watching il.
~ ~ Ato SaAL AOCitS SOlu III small Quantl-
ties hidden in room or elsewhere. While
al the camp he indicated several veins.
and directed mine-owners where to sink
their shafts, and he also has a system of
measurements TO indicate the depth of the
metal. Mr.. Stark is convinced that Kim
ball is thoroughly scientific man."
as TRUE AS THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE.
In the interview between Mr.. KimbalI
and the RECoRD-UNIo reporter the
former said there is nothing more Won
dertul IN the principle of his invention.
or discovery, than in the telephone and
other developments made through the in
strumentality of electrical forces. He has
simply secured a combination of natural
forces which he can perfectly control, and
through the aid of which he can detect
the presence of minerals buried beneath
the earth's surface as readily as if they
stuck out of the ground in plain view.
dis machine, he says, will correctly
indicate dips, croSS-veins, pock cts etc
He instanced cases wherein n1ine-owners
were found by him to be working right
away from the direction of the main
legdes which they were seeking. and on
following his direction they found the
lodges.
THE MOTHER LODE"
Referring to the great mother lode
which has been known to extend through
the Sierra Nevada range OF mountains.
Mr.. Kimball said:
II spent four weeks tracing that vein
through the counties of Placer, Ell Do