The Redwood gazette., 1894-12-27
HIT THEM HARD
The Minnesota Mining & Refining
Co. Gets an Effective
"SC0rCh.
The Minneapolis Journal Claims
to Have Positive Proof
of No Gold.
A Big Scheme and Proposition
hinted al BY Outside
Parties.

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Friday, contains another ''scorcher"
on the Minnesota Gold Mining and
Refining Co. of Delhi, and from the
statements made it would appear that
the end of the enterprise is near at
hand, aud that the company might as
we'll cause its epitaph to be written
The Journal has apparently gone to a
great deal of expense in getting the
facts This is what it says:
Since The Journal published an ex-
posure of the gold mine stock selling
scheme based on an alleged mine near
Redwood Falls, several assays of the
rock have been made by reputable
chemists, both for this paper and for
individuals, all of which have resulted
as might have been expected-and
have borne out the statements then
made-that there was not enough gold
in the rock to allow it to be treated
profitably.
1t has also come to light that assays
have been made by chemists at Aurora,
ILL.,, and in other places, notably by Fir.
Hille, of Port Arthur, Ont, the best
known mining expert of the Thunder
Bay district, which show either mere
trace of the precious metal or none at
all. One of The Journals assays was
made by Prof. Lehnen, of St. Paul,
who is the only chemist who has SO
far been brought forward as finding
gold in samples that were taken to
him and represented as coming from
Redwood Falls. 1t is somewhat sur
prising that Mr.. Lehnen could find
absolutely nothing in samples that
came from the mine for this paper, but
found most fattering results from the
rock. which those interested in the
min lbg company said had come from
the 4eme place. OF course, it is we'll
Kr1wn that mining assayists. in certi-
tying as to the results obtained from
rock IN their possession, never, except
where the ore is obtained by them
selves at the mine, certify as to any
thing more than that certain ore has
given certain results.
The Journal learns unoffcially, but
none the less absolutely, that mono
graph by the state, on the gold-bearing
rock of Minnesota, will say that so far
as the state geological survey is able
to discover, there is no gold worth
mentioning in the rock at or near Red
wood Falls. This monograph is now
in the hands of the printers.
The sample submitted to Mr.. Leh-
nen for analysis by The Journal was
personally secured by H. V. Winchell
from the alleged mine. Mr.. Wincnell
desired samples on which to base
statements in the forthcoming mono
graph of the state geological survey.
and he went to Redwood Falls to get
them. He kindly furnished The Jour-
nal with some of these, and careful
assays by Lehnen and others fail to
disclose even trace of the precious
metal.
Here the Journal publishes the
statement from the Times, published
in this paper last week, relative to the
experience of Messrs. Glassco and
Barnes, of this city, and then contin-
ues:
The journal has been requested to
publish these statements, which it
cheerfully does. 1t may be we'll to
say. however, in passing, that it is no
difficult or unusual thing for men not
fully posted in mining operations to
be misled and blinded in such test
as this by certain sleight of hand per-
formances that are only too we'll
known to the mine discoverer and the
mining stock promoter.
A brief history of some of the
methods by which good assay results
we're obtained by the managers of this
mine is rather interesting in this con-
nection. Some weeks ago rock from
the mine was given to grain man
whom it was hoped to interest in the
property. This was taken to the
State university for analysis on Fri
day, and the result was to be called
for the next day by Mr.. Edlund, the
president of the company. On Satur-
day the grain man went to Edlund to
get the result and was told that it had
not been received from the university;
on the following Wednesday he was
shown certificates of some $47 and $19
to the ton, which Edlund said we're
from the rock taken, and on which
the grain man was urged to put in
money that some friends we're willing
to place on q good property. A
further and Independent investigation
showed that the rock actually from the
mine had been assayed immediatly on
receipt, and had given so low q result