The evening world., 1894-09-19

have to pay for II. He said that Wills
VAS talking against Mr.. Nader and
tne mine because he had been let out
He was confident that there was some
developing it.
The matter was laid before Louis
Janin, Jr, the metallurgist and mining
engineer who is at the Gilsey House,
on MS way from London to Australia.
nave never made a geological sur
Xe9y OF New Jersey" said MIR. ,Janin.
covered with glacial drift, and / wifi
say that altogether | should not expect
70 md any bodybuilding formation in
me tne STATE. | Will qualify that by. say
anywhere., Sea water returns about
four cents worth to the cubic yard Of
water. am speaking in paying figures.
On the surface, this enterprise looks
as IL II might be one familiar to Cali
1ornians under the name of the green
Sold scheme. 1t has long been favor
ne plan OF the promoters of sailed
be obtained except under private
treatment, with which they are alone
familiar
~, ";A,sdolph Parar employed it both in
In California he had almost enlisted
Ralston, Flood and O'Brien in his
schemes, when the fraud or fallacy of
ms methods was exposed. a man
named Tichenor, exploited mine in
Marin County. California, in this way,
declaring that the salt employed in
Sasaaying vo;atilized the, gold as he
found found 1t, and SO profound was the Gre
Is still a popular dolusion that the en-
ployment of salt in ussaying is to the
diSadyantage OF sample showing.
sailing Is universal in mining coun-
tries. The, ground may be sprinkled
with chloride of gold or the specimens
so tempered with Miners have often
nred Al, shotgun load of gold dust into
American, natives have been known to
lodge pellets of gold into samples of
ore by means of blow gun when they
nave been kept at n distance under sus-
ing are numbcricsS.
or course, | know nothing about the
case you present but | am inclined to
uoupt very much that there is enough
VclOpment" "
r. p, Rockwell the editor of The En-
sIneeting and Mining Journal, veteran
Evening World'' reporter to-day:
~ StNeral engineers, and among them
1r. Wills. whom | know as a RESPONSE
pc man nave come, to me recently and
stated that. they had examined this
Tompton mine and could find no gold
or precious metal
u wrote to, tho, Company of these
I pari te ana today Mr. Nader, the SUI
sation with me. told him what the
engineers had said to me. He replied
mat 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 hann m i'm hty ,Npl
GERS of the Company.
After hearing this l told him that
he had not refuted any of the, state
upon me, and would not encourage in
vestment in his enterprise
Now, 1t may be matter of novel in
ter t, to the Western mining sharp that
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
cases There results from this manu-
facture 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
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 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
realize from 5000 to $4,000 year, ac-
The mining company is Preparing to
smet fifty tons of the Pompton ore at
one time in a few days. 1t might be
regarded as discreet for the faithful
promoters of the project as well as 9TH
ers to be assured of the undefled quail
ity of the "ore" brought from Pompton
mine.