Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1892-10-21

lsboring nodule.
Judging from what Mr.. Norri
reports Of his observations with hi
instrument, | am of the opinion
that an apparatus similar to tn
microphone might he constructed
by means Of which the sound pro
duced by chemical and dynamica
changes in. mineral deposits nigh
be detected through great dept
of rock. One might thus ofiiciatt
at the birth OF crystal at thu
depth OF hundred feet below tht
surfacel Until such an instru
ment Is brought out, | shall con
tinue to think better of the pick
and shovel than of anything else
as instruments by means of which
to discover deposits of the precious
metals.
However, there are not few
persons on the Comstock who
believe in Norrie and his stellyard
that weighs even the slightest
smell" of the precious metals.
Work is being done in a great
many places in Nevada at points
where his machine lost Its
equipoise and clicked the beam"
He also scouts about in California,
down through Arizona and out
into Utah. He has on the Com
stock cattle-king bro,her-inlaw
who is a firm believer in his
"dowser," and who has expended
a good deal OF money sinking
shafts in places where the
effiuvium of gold seemed to pour
up from the bowels of the earth
like smoke from the stack of
smelling furnace.
FEMALE "oRE-sMEILERs AND
NATURAL MAGNETS.
Besides these chiefs in metallos-
Peck and Norrie we
have been visited by score or
moro peregrinating "Douster-
swivels" with their forked sticks.
1t is a curious fact, and one that
shows in the human animal an in
herent learning toward lhe occult
and marvellous, that many a man
who Processes disbelief IN the
'dowser," yet finds a good deal OF
in the circumstances of
The "littIe joker having indicated
l great and rich body OF ore when
operated over his pet mine.
Thereafter his opposition to
'dowsers" and "Douster-swlvels" is
merely passive. On the other
land, let the magic fork" fail to
ind anything Of value on the mans
claim and his an
to "dowsers" and the
whole beggarly tribe OF swindling
'Douster-swivels" becomes active
md vehement.
While the masculine ore-hnder
Invariably operates with the old
ime mineral rod or some similar
mechanical apparatus, his feminine
oanterpart nearly always claims
o be 30 constituted as to be
'eculierly sensitive to the vaporous
xhalations of minerals and to the
and electric currents pro-
eeding from bodies of ore. These
emale "Douster-swiveis" are at
ected in various ways, mentally
nd physically, and their antics,
'hich range from the semitrance to {
hid Mysteries, are often decidedly 3
ldicrous. Some have tremblings, .
Moderate couvulsions, writing, OF ,
le facal muscles, wild rolllngs of :
le eyes and the like when under :
trong mineral influence. Though {
lese demonstrations on the part OF /
le tribe of natural magnets" s
lay be well calculated to awe and
Ivorably impress the feminine be-
older they do not, as rule, very
realty affect the masculine mind r
fe have been visited by several e
omen calling themselves natural a
agnets." To be taken into the !
borlnthian workings of well =
,ened mine and led about though |
'nfusing twists and turns is a Il
we're test to be undergone by even T
. most experienced and "shifty" t,
the male "dowsers;" for the :,
male natural magnet" the i'll ,
grins aud significant d
ugbs of the miners, who know 81
cry streak and bulch OF ore in e
cir works as well as a mother NJ
lows her children, are absolute =,
rture and few care to repeat the :
at experience IN that line OF 81
for ell come to grief in re
g mazes Of The underground oI
,rkiDgs. a,
THE MINERAL QUEEN" n
| once went into a mine with a n
,man calling herself the Mineral :.
leen." With us went the super ''
tendent, foreman and two or III
rec others connected with the ca