Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-11-21
PRICE STILL TESTIFIES.
SWORE THAT A WASTE OF
1900 OZS. OUT Of 10000
Was Due to Carelessness or Bod
lily Abstraction of Bullion.
STURGEON SWORE THAT EVERYBODY
IN THE REFINERY HAD AN EQUAL
SHOW TO STEAL,

when the Court opened in the morn
ing there was a pile of fresh SAMPLES
valises, lead pipe. rubber hose. mans
plans, etc. Price vas again put or
the stand Witness said he neve,
saw gold in nature similar to that de.
scrIbed by Beck. Assay certificates
were introduced in evidence Of articles
sent by ]. P. Woodbury. to Price as
follows: No. l, bluestone, traces q,
gold and silver; No. 2. cement, traces
or gold and silver; N. 3, concentrated
Mint solution. contained s.26 ounces
per ton gold and 26 ounces silver; No.
4, Mint solution, assayed Ill 50 in gold
and 44S ounces silver; No. 5, material
from inside lead wagon, traces of gold
and 26 ounces per ton silver.
One sample Of metallic solution from
the Mint assayed sos in gold and sill.
yer. -Four pieces of rubber hose as
sayed $4,000 per ton, gold and silver.
Everything seemed to give a very high
assay. Witness thought very little
gold should be lost in the operations
Of the Refinery.
Cross examined. I would not he
surprised to find god and silver in
the sewer leading from the Mint after
IS years OF operating the loss would
be considerable. Witness gave apaly-
sis Of nitric acid, but could not tell
how much chlorine was in he acid
used in the Carson Mint. There should
be no chlorine in the acid used for
Mint purposes and nothing that would
dissolve gold. Seldom over two ner
cent OF chlorine in any acid. For
every three atoms Of chlorine in a So
luton two atoms of gold will be dis
solved. If there was 3 per cent chlor
inc in a solution 2 per cent Of gold
would be dissolved. In 5000 ozs. of
gold, 5000 Ozs. Of silver and 1000 ozs
base q, 200 ounces of nitric acid would
be required. This would contain at
per cent, 200 ozs. Of chlorine.
A discussion between witness and
followed and no result was ar
at. Witness said the tests for
chlorlne made by Likens were cor
rect.
IMPORTANT TESTIMONY.
The presence Of chlorine in acid
would not account for the loss Of ! 500
ounces OF gold in the treatment Of 10
900 ozs. The pre- sence of one per cent
chlorine in a solution would not
account for the loss of 100 ounces in
he treatment of 10, 200. The impuri-
lties IN carson water would not ac-
count Tor SO great a loss There is no
way such a loss could be accounted
except by gross carelessness or the
bodily carrying of it from the Mint.
ne organic matter in a sewer consist
or soap, urine, ETC., would beoin
at once to convert gold in solution
.nto metallic gold. Nitric acid in the
'ulphuric acid would eat out the lead
n the precipitating house. IF nitrate
II silver was added to the solution if
would show the presence of chlorine
n The most minute EXAMINATIONS
snlphu uric acid or pure nitric acid
viii not dissolve gold. When combin-
q they will affect gold. Extracts Of t
fitness testimony was read to him
there he quoted Percy as the greatest
wing authority on metalurgy. Ex-
racts from Percy's works were then $
lad showing that there was no per ,
loss of gold when sulphuric /
CID and nitric acid and chlorine were
sed in the treatment. f
Such a treatment was used in the
Int, but witness said that the acid ,