Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-11-20

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two and one-half inches deep. Didn't
know if anyone had been there before
me. Can't say the sewers were sa'ted.
We flushed the sewers after we took
the samples. The Carson Mint has
been running about twenty years.
Took the samples to Patterson's house.
Don't know what Patterson did with
the samples. Never saw them after
wards. Can't identify the mud, but
can the buckets and cans.
Cole AthertOn was the next witness.
He Identified the place on the map
where he lived, and showed how sewer
age run over his p"tatp patch before it
reached b State Prison swamp or
marsh.
Cross examined Don't know how
many tons had come ont of the sewer,
perhaps a hundred.
MINT MATHEMATICs.
Lawrence EIr0d testified that If 80
ounces Of slutn ' ieided Sc, a ton would
tie worth $500. Allowing 20 cubic
feet to the ton, an acre three inches
deep would be 544I tons.
GILDED POTATO PATCH.
John Click testified that he had
been the Sheriff Of Crusby co"nty
Had taken STAPLES of soil from Cole
Atherton's potato patch and pasture.
Iook some samples with q butter
tester. Butter tester was exhibited to
The iary. Took So samples 81 Garth
out with the butter tester. Top land
showed no traces e gold or silver.
Took samples TO James assay Office.
Coffin and myself and Patterson de-
iivered the samples to the assay office
in Gold Hill, Recess until / 80.
AFTER RECESS
Was under pay when I took the
samples Of soil, Patterson and Coffin
were with me. Don't know whaeher
Coffin or Patterson had been there be-
fore.
T~hirty-siN glass jars containing
the samples were exhibited in Court
and identified hy the witness. Selected
places most likely to give results.
Witness vent owe the map and
showed where the specimens had been
taken from.
Sewers had been running. from the
Mint since '72. Constable Patterson
tuid how he was assisting the previous
witness take the SAMPLES from the
ground and remove them to Goa
Hill, and the care he tool of theta
while in his possession, and gave a
detailed ccoun OF his placer mining
operations in the W creek which
runs through Atherton's potato patch
to the State prison. Assays of samples
offered in evidence. Witness had
scooped stuff up among the grass
roots and it all assayed
Cross examined. Witness had been
employed by the defense since April.
He could show the jury a place as large
as a spittoon where there was earth
similar to the samples. Witness could
get tons of it inside of two weeks.
@ Adams, Supt. Of the Mint, testi-
fled that they bought the sulphuric
acid from Taylor & CO., San Fran
cisco. A copy of a letter from Adams
to Taylor was introduced. Price was
recalled and gave the prices of sui
phuric acid. Acid with a strength of
80 or 40 degrees cost a or > cents per
pound. Extra - or 10 cents and i'm
ported from the East 25 cents.
In chemically pure sulphuric acid
chlorine existed that united with the
sulphuric acid and formed aqua regia
hat effected gold. This will cause
the gold TO be held in solution and a
week solution Of the acid will cause
fumes to rise that will cause gold TO
go into the solution and the gold will
run off with the liquid, wherever the
liquid goes. Witness identified the
assay certificates. Had made the as
says personally as he expected to tes-
tify. Had assayed 10 samples of gold
and silver ranging from 81 20 to S52
the average was 81 a ton. The sewer
Mr.. Coffin said contained 50. 1000 in all.
Found traces Of chloride OF sodium
salt in the water used in the Mint.
The sodium would produce hydro
choloric acid and contaminate the gold.
Distilled water should be used. The
Jury was flooded with ASSAYS and
samples for over an hour. The lowest
assay of the fields zeal the potato
patch was y cents silver, gold
trace.
In some Of the samples the gold ap-
peared in flakes. Organic matter in a
sewer would percipitate gold that had
escaped precipitation in the solution
and would be converted into metallic