Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-10-08

wash the whole face Of the ledge with
chloride conveyed on a large brush.
Again, when an expert asks for
blasting to be done where he ~fancies,
so that he can get the ore from a
fresh place, the miner will probably
have "tamping" ready sprinkled with
gold. %"Tamping' is the material
that fills the hole after the shot is
inserted. OF course, the explosion
scatters it among the ore, and the
gold is well distributed.
A much more tedious and expen-
sive method is known as Stacking"
1t means taking out a whole section
of a mine and filling the space with
ore from another part of the mine,
or from another miGe altogether.
AS a rule, a drive of four or five feet
will be excavated and the hole filed
with soil that does contain gold. The
work has to be done artistically so
that the ground may appear as if
spade and pick had never touched it.
An American named Col. Morgan
carried out an extensive sHindle on
this plan some years ago, in Victoria.
He got charge of a s~ilver-lead mine
OF moderate quality. At first he sent
enthusiastic reports; then the sup
ply Of ore fell off, and the colonel
said he was busy developing and
opening up the mine. Funds a out,
the company was reorganized, and
! the colonel took a good many
shares at the cheap price. Event
ually he called his directors down to
see what a splendid property was
theirs silver everywhere, wealth
glittering and waiting for machinery
to gather it. The directors were in
great glee. They went back to town
and ordered the machinery, and sent
the shares up with a bound. One
morning the colonel could not be
found. He had cleared out his hold
ing in the mine at a fancy price and
taken a steamer ticket to his native
land. 1t was discovered that the
silver ore the colonel showed the
directors had been industriously col
lected from all over the mine and
carefully stacked to make an i'm
preston and give good assays,
GOLD FOR TIN.
When the government of Quebec
was advertising for tin mines it oc-
Cured to certain ingenious miners
to make a tin mine on the territory,
seeing nature had omitted to do so.
They went over to Cornwall and
secured a great quantity of tin ore,
made it up in small packets, and had
these carried to Canada on many
different ships. The ore was con
veyed to a lonely part, far from
Quebec to the westward, and care.
fully deposited as nature might have
laid it, on a rough hillside among
grass and weeds. There it lay for a
couple Of years, till wild vegetation
and the weeds and grass covered all
traces of mans Interference. One
day a tin miner strayed there looking
looking for tin in order to win the
government reward. AS he was one
Of the syndicate who deposited the
ore it was little wonder that he found
it. The assayers declared it a rich
deposit, the government paid the
reward, and there was a boom in that
tin mine. A company was formed
to take over the reward claims, "
and the syndicate having got together
all the available money, decamped.
They were just in time, for another
Cornishman came along and told the
authorities that he could identity the
very mine in his own county from
which the ore had been taken.
An Australian tin mine enterprise
had a different sequel, 1t was sailed