The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-29
GOLD IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Evidences Of Precious Metal I'm
Ahundancc-Primit Methods
Of NnIlxeR.

A correspondent who has been investi-
eating the mountain ranges OF Luzon
writes that he Is very much impressed
with the mineral possibilities OF the Phil
ippines. To Illustrate native mining. he
describes the. primitive methods In vogue
The whole mountain was scanned with
quartz veins frOrn few inches 70 Ave feet
across. and all said 10 be gold bearing.
yet the lgorotte miner has never got be-
You'd the retting. fragile white quarts %
the surface. lie takes an iron ptke~a
simple stick .hcd with a steel point six
inches iong-and with this strikes the
prizes cut az the blocks OF disintograting
rock
Perhaps during his working period.
which seldom lasts more than Two hours
a day. he detaehes twenty 10 forty pounds
Of quartz rock. which he carries down the
gorse SO his home for the next operation
., srns a miner sssessa. 81 secs s.I
SELF into these burrows some ten feet AT
the most, and then he only takes the
trouble when The vein e exceptionally
rich as X nccessitatss his burning
torch. prepared by the women from thin
sticks 81 reslnous pine, which every few
minutes smokes him out One II tremsn-
gaid mining and tao great. broad seams
OF quartz suggest wonderful possibilities
for a small stamp mill.
But ne 9 as ssIs. S q sss'e aSs, -sl So
progressive mind. From behind thsn
shade OF oogghs, near the houses below.
rose thG1. thuds stopping G0N Tor Al N
stant. and then taken ~ again mcnoto.
causiy. re.ftng behind the screen Una
discovers an old bag. ~riaklec and cried
hY thrersgore years % a foitonie Ife
She IA swinging 20 ana ire from the hips,
IN her s4uatting position oa The ground,
ard with her ontsstetcnfd ana rigid arm
she rocks a slightly cylindrical stone %
s0ruc afty pounds upoa Anrghar larger IN
size and slightly eoncsvs- Between the
faces - these two stones - crushed tbe
quartz The els PISCES q gqla rock are
mat by volcanic nGw43ers. and then these
are taken. onr At a tisue. and crushed 60
coarse dust under TIE primitive AFrastre
dust 8 thea fed between the reeki-g
stones. and finally comes cat. after hcgta
Of pAtieut labor. as an snua Ia be Powder
The men are lazy. but the poor, eiJ
women viii sit for hours moving THIS
crushsr back and forth spfs&AlaS tns
grinding quarts into rev ros.t,sns sith a
arxter0us swlSh 81 tAe hand. ard thNu.
after a days labor. VII H2te rut staat
ten pounds of poW8a. rcadY fof tne last
Th. papnins Is done principally in Gala
bashes or the halt shells u eig gourds.
The powder y placed Ia the calas4Sh.
which Is thea died with water. A circ1-
Al motion II impaired 60 tina water watch
starts al tbs RgAteT arr N MeNPH VITA
Al each turn Of the pan portion q the
water j. swsShed over the edge. carrying
Sut the hulk 81 the dirt BY the time the
~ water several times and repetluons or
throwing Il cut op. rotary motion nothing
hut the heavy COLA and black magnetic
iron ore Is left tr the bottom OF the psr.
4 stiii more careful washing takes place
In some localities by the use - = second
smaller dish. and the iron ore - finally
removed. after drying. by the Use Of
magnet. bat in some OF the regions to the