The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-09-26
5000 AND $40 TO The TON.
President Edlund Makes a Pleas
Ing and Satisfactory
Public Assay.
One Specimen Weighed 5000 and
Another $40 to the Ton
of Quartz.

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fair last week one thing has been very
clearly demonstrated to the satisfac-
tion OF even the most skeptical minds.
That is, that Prof. H. V. Winchell has
been proven false in his statements
concerning no gold in Redwood coun-
ty. Gold really exists and it is here
in paying quantities.
AS stated last week by The GAZETTE,
President Edlund of the Minnesota
Gold Mining & Refining Company
had agreed to make an exhibition Of
gold bearing quartz from the mine
north of Delhi as we'll as to reduce
and make complete assay of the
same The assay occurred on last Fri
day, commencing at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon, and ending at about one
O'Clock, when two tiny balls of gold
appeared in the cups as a result of
the reduction of one ounce of ore
one ounce of the light quartz and one
ounce of the dark quartz-the result
of each in separate cups and the dark
quartz assaying about $500 to the ton
while the light quartz only tipped the
feather Rotterdam scales at about $40
to the ton.
People who have been exceedingly
skeptical on the gold bearing quail
ties OF the quartz all along, watched
the proceedings from post to finish,
never allowing the quartz to disap-
pesr from their view, except when in
the furnace, and until it was burned
down to the tiny gold balls. The
quartz, or rather two different kinds,
one light and the other dark, was TAX
en- from the dump north of Delhi in a
haphazard manner, without regard to
quality or appearance. It was brought
to the fair grounds and there placed
in charge of the secretary,in whose Of
fee the reduction occurred. Here
President Edlund had provided a
Hopkins furnace and gasoline tank
connection, two sets of Backer Bros
Rotterdam scales, capable of weighing
the lightest feather, pottery urns and
saucers for the smelling, bone dust
cups of the most absorbent kind, pans
and sieves, and a miniature crushing
outfit.
A large crowd was present at the
opening of the process. President Ed
lund stated that a blank might be
drawn the first time, and that if he
got three out of the five he would be
more than satisfied. Immediately be
commenced the crushing of the quartz,
reducing it so that it would pass
through the finest sieve. The first ore
crushed was the dark. The second
was the light. He took an ounce of
each from the pans holding pound
or more, weighing it out on the scales.
Next he mixed it with the usual chem
ical preparations aud then in order to
show that there was nothing in these
preparations he mixed them up with
out the ore, and placed each one OF
the three in separate saucers. The
furnace now reaching white heat he
placed the three saucers in the same
and in half an hour reduced the con-
tents to molten lava. This was poured
out into cone vices, cooled off and the
first refuse broken off with the ham
mer, leaving what appeared to be a
leaden ball. Again they were placed
back into the furnace and reduced
still farther, taking out everything ex-
cept the lead, platinum and gold, if it
contained the latter two. These balls
we're then placed into small cups made
of bone powder and returned to the
furnace where they were allowed to
remain little over half an hour. The
result of this process was that the lead
was burned into the bone dust cups.
the platinum went up into smoke and
when the cups were taken out, the
two containing the quartz had two tiny
balls OF gold and the one without the
quartz Lad it's contents burned to
nothing. The burning down of this
material was an interesting sight to
witness. The interior of the cups first
presented white circle of fire about
the size of a quarter and gradually re-
duced until almost like flash the
flame went out and the gold speck
was revealed to the naked eye.