The evening world., 1894-09-19

have to pay for H. He said that willis
was talking against Mr.. Madder and
tne mine because he had been let out.
ne was confident that there was some
ming In the mine. and would go ahead
The matter was laid before Louis
engineer, who Is at the Gilsey House,
on ms way from London to Australia.
nave never made a geological sur
yey of New Jersey" said Mr.. Janin.
Know the surface to be largely
sey req, With ho glacial drift and will
to n na' aa atosether should not expect
,n state. / will quality that by say
ing that traces of gold may be found
ss d,;r mere. Sea, Sea water returns about
water. l am speaking in paying figures
on the surface. this enterprise looks
as u 1t might be one familiar to Cali
Iornians under the name of the green
lite plan OF the promoters of sailed
mines to declare that yields could not
pc obtained except under private
treatment, with which they are alone
"Adolph Parafr employed 1t both in
california and Peru some years ago
IN California he had almost enlisted
Rahiston, Flood and o'Brien in his
sGhenes, when the fraud or fallacy OF
MS methods was exposed. A man
named Tichenor exploited a mine in
Marin County, California, in this way,
sayhss v soSt ias S s6s employed sag b IN
found It, and SO profound was the ere
dence given him for time that there
IS stu popular delusion that the EN-
ployment OF salt in assaying is to the
disadvantage OF sample showing.
Sailing Is universal in mining coun-
tries. The. ground may be sprinkled
W. with chloride Of gold or the, specimens
Ired shotgun load of gold dust into
bank to make 1t give a showing. South
american natives have been known to
lodge pellets Of gold into samples of
ore by means of a blow gun when they
nave been kept at a distance under sus-
plclon The ingenious schemes for salt
ing are numberless.
VI course l know nothing about the
case you present, but l am Inclined to
aoupt very much that there is enough
SoIa IN Jersey to warrant mining de-
r. P; Rockwell, the editor of The En-
gineering and Mining Journal, a veteran
'E.yyening, World" reporter to-day:
Several engineers, and among them
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
perintendent, called and had a CONVEX
satlon with me, / told him what the
that as the Company was not trying to
float any stock. It was nobodys bust
ness what they did. However, he de-
clared that he had been able to get
mems from the mines. l asked him II
he had ever sampled the mine himself
and brought his specimens for assay
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 mine that the
dTsg in Of IN s ehem Wsst has
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
Of the precious wares they are creating
cases are made.
So valuable Is the detritus from this
ming ana scraplng that the most remark
able pains are taken to preserve II. The
workmen endeavor to catch as much as
possible in their buckskin aprons. but a
small amount goes to the floor. The sweep
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 an nual
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 few days VS. might be
promoters of the project as well as 9TH
ers to be assured OF the undefiled quail
ity of the lore" brought from Pompton