The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-29
THE BENNETT AMALGAMAToR.
Saving n Small Fortune Daily IN
Fine Yellow Gold.

Fine Yellow Gold.
The Herald man who yesterday morning
boarded the Rio Grande Western train
from the east at Provo, found Colonel
Cass Hite curled up in seat and looked
as though he had been in the recent Kan
sas cyclone-but he hadn't. He had en-
countered a terrific sand storm down at
Green River, though, and his clothes and
hair were yet filled with fine sand.
The Brightness of his eyes at once
proclaimed that he had news of import
ance, and the while the train swept on
towards the city, he let go the following
in relation to his trip:
IN a binding dust and sand storm yes
terday l landed at Green River station on
the Rio Grande Western in Utah At the
station l met Mr.. 4. S. Bennett, the great
placer miner and amalgamator man. He
informed me he was on his way to Den
ver being called there by a law suit in
which he was interested. He said: I
have turned over the plant to the South
Park Mining company. 1t is in successful
operation to their entire satisfaction as
well as mine. | wanted to go to the Colo
RADIO rivers rich bars before my return to
Denver but am pressed for time. AS soon
as l can [ am going to the river and
want you to accompany NE. L will let you
the moving train. AS his grand form,
capped by sixty years Of life, stepped
lightly, smiling and pouyant, on the plat
form, and he waved his final adios' l was
compelled to rate him with Edison, Tesla.
Franklin and the roll of benefactors VINO
have achieved so many wonders in the
world of progress.
THE FINEST GOLD BEING SAVED.
.'Farnsworth, who visits the placer
works daily on business, gave me this
data: The wonderful shovel, revolving
cylinders, screens and the amalgamator
is daily and hourly moving up on the
first forty feet cut at the rate of from
> , ards no
first work win the grand system involved
some little break2ge, but it is all over
come now. Mr.. Bennett has claimed the
ability of his machine TO save gold that
cannot possibly be saved by any ordinary
process. What his contract with the
South Park company was, is of course,
secret. But in the presence of many wit
nesses he took gold from the plates in the
amalgamator, expelled the quicksilver
put it on a paper in his hand and with a
Slight puff it t1oated away on the air like
smoke. This most extraordinary demon
Stration has Silenced all old placer miners
offered, before leaving. SGG0 a week for the
net proceeds derived from the machine
which was unhesitatingly refused.
ALL PARTIES ARE SATISFIED.
Every body is happy. The South Park
Mining company, the employees on the
work, tEs denizens of Green River, the
great inventor, the people of the lower
valleys, the placer miners who are work
ing down along the Colorado and Grand,
who have for years stuck to that rich
gravel with the II GERS and snipe How
gladly they will tarn over all the killing
labor necessary to their existence to the
quick and easy method demonstrated by
MIR. Bennett.
CARELESS REMARKS TOUCH DEEP
LY.
'Modesty forbids any innovation upon
the patience of a meek reporter, but l
have been pent up for years and spin
TO give vent TO denunciation of a practice
INDUCED in by tenderfeet and thoughtless
people. 1t is this: An old prospector
goes against the storms of the seasons,
the perils. disappointments incidental to
his legitimate, tho precarious calling.
lie endures priyations, poverty, fights
wild animals, Indians sickness and dis
ease he knows not. He strikes it, 1t
matters not how much his frame has en-
dured, his heart is rent in twain by the
careless expression: The lucky - -
nett has fought battle for the past
eleven years over his process for hand
ling fine gold that involved finance, in
ventive genius of the highest order, and
the embodiment of energy, industry and
brains-that has in the end won for him
the battle.
1.-THE Colorado river basin embraces all
the country between the Wasatch and
Rocky mountains. with the great precious
metal bearing camps tributary to the
grandest natural concentrating PROPOSE
ton upon this or any other continent.
These beds of auriferouS gravel cover the
sides of the many tributaries of the San
Juan, Green and Grand rivers and while
the gold is ground into infinite particles
methods, yet it is now demonstrated that