The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-09-19

have to pay for It, He said that Wills
was talking against Mr.. Madden and
me mine because he had been let out
He was confident that there was some
thing IN the mine. and would go ahead
developing 1t.
The matter was laid before Louis
Janin, tr., the metallurgist and mining
engineer, who is at the Gilsey House,
on MS way from London to Australia
nave never made a geological sur
Hey OF New Jersey" said Mr.. ,Janin.
covered with glacial drift, and l viii
say that altogether l should not expect
70 md any gold;-yieldng formation in
the state. l will qualify that by say
ing that traces OF gold may be found
anywhere. Sea water returns about
Jour cents worth to the cubic yard of
water ! am speaking in paying figures.
on the surface, this enterprise looks
as II II might be one familiar to Cali
fornians under the name OF the green
gold scheme 1t has long been "A favor,
mines to declare that yields could not
be obtained except under private
treatment, with which they are alone
"Adolph Paran employed it both in
California and Peru some years ago.
IN California he had almost enlisted
RaLston, Flood and OBrien in his
his methods was exposed A man
named Tchenor exploited a mine in
Marin County, California, in this way,
aesisT,ing that the salt employed in
found 1t. and so profound was the ere
dence given hi m for a time that there
Is still popular delusion that the en-
pioyment of salt in assayinS is to the
disadvantage of a sample showing.
Sailing Is universal IN mining coun-
tries. The. ground may be sprinkled
with chloride of gold " the specimens
nred a shotgun load OF gold dust into
a bank to make it give showing. South
American. natives have been known to
lodge pellets of gold into samples of
ore by means of blow gun when they
have been kept at a distance under sus-
picion. The ingenious schemes for salt
ing are numberless.
of course. l know nothing about the
case you present, but l am inclined to
doubt very much that there is enough
gold In Jersey to warrant mining de
r. p: Rockwell, the editor of The En-
gineering and Mining journal. a veteran
EXPERT in mining matters, said to an
Several engineers, and among them
pr. Wills, whom / know as a RESPONSE
PIE man. have come, to me recently and
stated that they had examined this
compton mine and could find no gold
II wrote to the Company of these
facts, and to-day Mr.. Nader, the SUI
sation with me. told him what the
engineers had said to me. He replied
that as the Company was not trying to
ness what they did. However, he de-
clared that he had been able to get
very satisfactory returns from speci-
mems from the mines. l asked him If
and brought his specimens for assay
from the. spot After some talk he ad-
mitted that he had not done so, and
that all the subjects on which he had
worked had been given to him by Off
GERS of the Company.
After hearing this I told him that
he had not refuted any of the, state;
ments OF the engineers who had called
upon me, and | would not encourage in
vestment in his enterprise"
Now, 1t may be a matter of novel in
terest to the Western mining sharp that
the effete but creative East can afford
material for sailing a mine that the
lively and productive West has not
dreamed of in its chemistry.
There are such institutions in these
parts as jewelry manufactures and
works where they make hundreds and
thousands of gold and silver watch
facture certain amount Of waste. Men
file away, grind away and plane away
by hand and machine a certain amount
E the aeofes Weee hey are ns
cases are made.
So valuable is the detritus from this
filing and scraping that the most remark
workmen endeavor to catch as much as
possible in their buckskin aprons, but a
small amount goes to the floor The sweep
ings are carefully saved in dust bins,
the water that the men wash their hands
and faces in Is strained and every few
years the floor of the workshop is taken
up and smelted, so to speak.
The sweeps" of jewelry and watch
case factories is altogether of such we'll
known value that there are concerns that
make a business OF buying it. The man,
ufactories hold quarterly or semi-annual
sales of their rubbish, selling it to the
highest bidder and In this way they
cording to the size of the works.
The mining company is preparing to
smelt fifty tons of the Pompton ore at
regarded as discreet for the faithful
promoters of the project as well as 9TH
ers to be assured of the undehled quail
ity of the ''ore" brought from Pompton
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