The Redwood gazette., 1895-06-06

steel choppers and various other small
pieces necessary to gold machinery.
The talk about the crusher COM
menced six months ago and has been
kept up ever since. Gossips would
have the machinery here or at Delhi
or would have it en- route. This talk
became so extensive that it grew to be
q chestnut. People generally regarded
it hoax until the crushing machinery
really arrived last Friday. Then a
peep into the huge car was sufficient
to satisfy even the most skeptical.
Uncle Asa Perkins, a gold mining
enthusiast, who has swayed with the
crowd, and occasionally doubted the
intent of the boomers, was the first on
the spot. He "pulled" Agent
Beecher into letting him have the in
troductory squint. After the squint
Mr.. Perkins was satisfied that the
boomers had found the yellow metal
and declared that it existed all along
the Minnesota river, even down to
where he had recently nailed an
option board. Uncle Asa left the
tracks chuckling, a cussin' gleefully,
and a gold bug of the most energetic
Wall street type.
John A. Cole of Rochester and II.
r. Owens of Minneapolis we're in the
city last Wednesday and Thursday.
Redwood Falls is made their seat of
operations. They visited the mines
during those two days and left for
their respective homes Thursday after
noon and evening. Mr.. Owens drove
to Olivia and took the Milwaukee into
Minneapolis.
While here Mr.. Owens was asked
what had been struck that made the
company so enthusiastic, or whether
the enthusiasm and arrival of ma
chinery was "big bluff" as some
people here had mind to term it.
He replied, very shortly after which
he closed up as tight as the proverbial
oyster we have all read about:
What we have struck in the last four or
| five feet going down in the shaft has been
simply wonderful-simply wonderful, sir,
and that's why our machinery is here
Mr.. Owens closed up for good then.
But President Edlund made the fol-
lowing statement to a Penny Press
| reporter:
Engineer E. E. Edlund, of Red
wood gold mine discovery fame, is in
the city in connection with the putting
in Of the mining machinery for the
ten-stamp mill at the gold mine near
Redwood Falls. He informed the
Penny Press that the foundation OF
their building is in and part of the
machinery already on the ground.
"While we are putting in but ten
stamp MILL" said Mr.. Edlund, "our
other machinery is to be adequate tc
several times that capacity" Of the
progress in developing the vein, Mr.
Edlund said: 1--WE are now down 12s
feet with our main shaft, and find the
same encouraging prospects as before
While we are not saying much except
to let those who have the right tc
know just what the assays are, at the
same time I will inform you that W.
have not had single assay from tht
last five feet of the shaft, out of many
which went below $97 to the ton."
Mr.. Edlund says that they hav,
fully 1000 tons Of ore on the dump
and are adding to it at the rate o
20 tons daily. The assays for tn
mine, he says, are made by all of tn
leading assayers and then tested ant
reported on by Prof. Harry Snyde
of the state experimental station
Prof. Snyder has in every case con
firmed the other assay.
Masons are employed at the mine
} putting in the foundations for the en-
CINE, boiler and crusher. Some c
these masons are from this city an
say that work is being pushed wit
vigor.
THE THIRTY WIDOWS.