Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-07-08

for sublimation, fxation, lixivia-
/ ton, filtration and coagulation.
( Also, like the alchemists, thes,
{ men were always upon the point o
projection" but owing to sons
little oversight or unforeseen
accident never quite reached tha
! point However, very many -un-
willing to lose their labor brought
out processes of the wonders
and advantages of which they
{ boasted.
Soon the c, uniry was full oI
'pfoeess peddlers' with walls ol
magical solutions IN their vest
pockets. These men besieged the
mill owners and offered the secret
of their solutions at prices ranging
from $1,000 to $4,000. They
became at last nuisance ani a
terror to mill men, who were
obliged to put up notices announc.
ing that "No processes are wante
here
The mill men themselves were
prolific of processes, and very
many of them had secret processes
OF their own. These they guarded
with jealous care, mixing their
chemicals in private room and
giving them out to the workmen in
charge of the amalgamatiug pans
as thoroughly disguised as
possible, yet the men in the anal
gamatlng department. were not
long IN discovering every in
gredient used. They would then
post some friend on the outside
and send hlm forth to pedde the
process under some new and high
sounding name. Not only were
some of the best processes in use
in the mills, as the Hatch and
Wealth processes, stolen aud sold
among the mill men, but were also
taken to San Francisco aud sold |
to parties there as new and |
wonderful discoveries, when the
San Francisco buyers would come
rushing across the mountains in
the expectation of making
fortune among the mill men of |
''Washoe." /"
Among the processes IN actual
use in the mills of the country
from 1861 to 1868 may be mention
ed the following The Hatch, the
Sagebrush, the Thayer, Jei1ery.
Novelty Companys Silver
Process the Johnson Process,
The Hurd, Hayden, Norton and
Atmospheric process" =" The "At-
was process by
means of which ore was to be
worked without heating, There
vas great talk about it for time,
t being reported that 1t was to he
'ut into all the big reduction
works, but soon all this blowing"
eased, and il would seem that the
process was suddenly resolved ]
'ack into Its native thin air. The &
octors took hand in the business c
t evolving processes. There was 9
be process of DIR. Neatch used in :
number of mills, the Gould & I
'urry mill III particular This n
'as claimed to be an improvement e
n the Frelberg barrel process and II
1 working it wooden tubs with t
asst iron bottoms were used. The l
iautier process, invented by DIR. "
iautier, was in use in the Gaddier q
ill, on the Carson river. A p
recess was invented by DIR, p
and WAS used for
me- in several mills. {
Some of the processes required lie
le use of wooden tubs, paved with al
one and having stone drags - oI
ally arastras as no iron could Is
} used. This was probably owing tc
acids being addict to the charge I
pulp. Some of the processes u
,quired the use of Hungarian b,
'wls, in ainalgamating; others q
artola pans with wooden mnllers, L
hers again Chill mills or Bro h,
ort's grinders. "
In the processes were used not at
Ily all mineral salts, as blustone, pc
lphate of jrI N, saltpeter, bornx, bl
us'Ic potash, alum, soda and the q,
;e, With all known acids, but also on
veral kinds OF astringent veget- til
lie decoctions. At one time pa
'oug tea made of cedar bark was In
ought to greatly promote amalga- an
alton; also a strong decoction of th
gebruSh Was tried and said 10
crate we'll, probably by purging wi
2 PARTICLES of quartz OF. their sti
gentlferous contents. The drug sll
,res drove a thriving trade with wi
2 mill men aud many miners who sill
re in search of the "universal th,
vent" Not only were all kinds nae
acids and mineral salts in de
md, but also several kinds of Al
ms from tropic regions exl
In one process the crushed ore bll
$ made luto bricks of the same gu
9 rs il for building and burned tel
a kiln rs ara ordinary bricks. AL
wdust was mixed with tie pulp USE