The evening world., 1894-09-19
JERSEYS ELDORADO.
The Strange Case Of the Sur
prise" Gold Mine.
Assayer WiiIs's Alleged Exposure
and Other Opinions.
A Few Notes on "Sweeps" from
Watch Case Factories.

cold mine located Mt pornto,
pl,ins n. J.. about TWENTY-FIVE niIas
fr,,r New York. and n gold stan,ninr
,,,ul In woodside n suburb of Neyy,rn
ore h,inr oper,ted under a reprasanta.
,.,o oonttol of s75OoO
rho MINI can hest he dascr,hsd nc .
q. o,,,rr,. nIacer" and hos ha.r r,,r,
otiut 200 faat into tho hillside With a,,
anon,rc ,f seventy feet vide Tha mi
l., ,,rrni,, undar fuli beadw.y ord 60
~ i"iii,"e uiiua io' ueau"ay' anu SO
lar as tHe o"hers ana promoters Oh the
joint plant are concerned, it is appa-
rautIv a serioibs matter of business RIM
s'' 'u''
oil PROMISE
Now, comes j. Lainson Wills, an as
.o,or ubo evnoee, or ,ratapds to 30
SAL 80, ~ 49, 49,. "
pose a fraud In the whole enterprise.
The mine is located upon the farm of
'onn ." 80 p.'. 'po I mou'i
talns,so called, near compton rams
He found glittering substance in the
o,,toronni,, roou q, bis hillside cove
ou''iopp'"s io|N o,i ms i'''i'iue soiiie
years ago ana cohcluueu ne hdu STRUCK
gold Various assays are said to have
deyeloped from samples not only gold
...e.U up I'm NJ n''', ny, lo o'.s so'u
but silver as We'll Inc assays are also
said not to have done so.
Thomas Benfeld. a silent partner of
Keller ohtermeyer' manufacturers
of watch cases and jewelry, at 1872
broadway however. was persuaded to
"' "
have faith in the indications, as was
Mr.. Untermeyer later on.
Tboy hogan IN blast and lilo into
49,. Wen $780, p,1,,s,aa "a S,,i, y
mill at Newark. The mine was christ
eheu ne surprise, anu ,'ie mn pe-
H.
pany"
There is a confusion about results and
reports of the same. Prof. Pierre de
lege faculty, who has a private assaying
office at l64 John street, tested some Of
the so-called ore, and, his returns were
has a mind to regard them.
The organization of the stock company
went on, and now includes, beside the
gentleman named above, Alexander
Milne, President of the Newark Watch
Case Material Company; William Arthur,
OF the same Company, and Edwin NJ.
Douglas, President of the German Ma
When the mill was built C. f, Madder.
an old and trusted employees of Keller
& Untermeyer, was made superintendent.
while they We're able to get paying re.
suits from small quantities Of ore-such
as ioO.pound iots4t6eir efforts with ton
lots were most unsatisfactory
They therefore concluded that they
needed n frst-class metaiiurpist and 40
saver to solve this pIzzie and advertiser
for one in The Engineering and Mining
Journal - :
THE advertisement was oinewared by
T. I.ainson Wis n Canadian essaver
who lives in RrookIyn He vas on
S H With the aGraemant as S Mas sa en-
thst he was 70 Get q 00o a Year IL he
cnuid make large nnantities Of orc
yieIS nawinS ouantities Of gold or silver
or both. He was lust n week in the em
NOV ~ the SUNRISE Mininr Comnanv
and the cnnditinns Of his da5a rt,ira ~ re
az almost every feature of The bistory
of this enterprise a matter of varvinIr
renort - ~ " no
fe Re declares that there Is no gold there
and that he was unable 70 pet any re,
turns from large or small miIiings Of the
ore. while a Trusted employee. 1Indoubt-
edIv referring 10 Mr. Madder was al
ways abIe 70 make a nrnfitahle snowing
turning o,lt Indications at one time Of
neariv 15O ounces Of silver to the ton
WINS saws MT he grew susnicim,s
and ARA nSed a mirror over his work.
ing case So that he was enabled to see
a "trusted employee" behind him de-
liberately dose his crucibie with silver
fiiings from a nan at his side He saws
that he reported the matter and was
discharged with the offer of 500 for his