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

was talking against Mr.. Madden ana
the mine because he had been let out
re was confident that there was some
ddhing In the mine, and would go ahead
The matter was laid before Louis
Janin, jr.. the metallurgist and mining
engineer, who Is at the Giisey House,
have neV Sm m nSse0n t to AlSstsslia
vey of New Jersey" said Mr.. Janin
know the surface to be largely
covered soy RED. with glacial drift, and l viii
70 md any gold-yieldng formation in
the State. l will qualify that by say
ahg .hae TRACES OF gold may be found
four cents worth to the cubic yard of
wafer. l am speaking in paying figures
IN the surface. this enterprise looks
ash as II II might be one familiar to Cali.
goid scheme. 1t has long been a favor
lte plan OF the promoters Of sailed
mines to declare that yields could not
treatment, with which they are alone
"Adolph Parafr employed 1t both in
california and Peru some years ago.
Ralston, Flood and O'Brien in his
ssGinemes, when the fraud or fallacy OF
MS !. methods was exposed. A man
Marin County, California, in this way,
ss assay yoiatilized the, gold as he
denee sve end b 30 s hat the there
is still popular delusion that the en-
ployment of salt in assayihg is to the
dis.advantage Of a sample showing.
tries. Tho. ground may be sprinkled
with chloride of gold or the specimens
SO tampered with. Miners haye often
hred shotgun load of gold dust into
III % 1
American natives have been known to
lodge pellets of gold into samples Of
ore oy means Of a blow gun when they
picion. The Ingenious schemes for salt
ing are numberless.
of course. l know nothing. about the
doubt very much that there is enough
goiid IN Jersey to warrant mining de-
r. P; Rockwell, the editor Of The En-
cheering and Mining Journal, a veteran
esfHer1 IN W mining matters. said to an
nv several Myei, engineers, and among them
PIE man have come to me recently and
stated that they had examined this
pompton mine and could find no gold
II wrote to, the Company of these
facts and to-day Mr.. Nader, the su-
p stinn called ana had CONVEX
engineers. had said to me- He replied
that as the Company was not trying to
float any stock II was nobody's bust
ness n, what , they did. However, he de-
very satisfactory returns from speci-
mems from the mines. 1 asked him IL
he had ever sampled the mine himself
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
After hearing this I told him that
he had not refuted any of the state
ments Of the engineers who had called
vestment in his enterprise
NOW, 1t may be a matter Of novel In
terest to the Western mining sharp that
material for sailing a mine that the
lively ysS and d, RrosductiSye West has not
There are such institutions in these
parts as jewelry manufactures and
works where they make hundreds and
thousands Of gold and silver watch
cases. There results from this manu-
facture a certain amount Of waste. Men
file away, grind away and plane away
by hand and machine a certain amount
of the precious wares they are creating
in the factories where jewelry and watch
cases are made.
So valuable is the detritus from this
filing and scraping that the most remark
able pains are taken to preserve 1t. The
" CdtCH dS HluCn 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, 30 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 1t. The man
ufactories hold quarterly or semi-annual
sales of their rubbish, selling 1t 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
one time In a,I few days: II might be
promoters Of the project as well as 9TH
ers to be assured of the undefiled quail
ity Of the "ore" brought from Pompton
mine.