Tanana leader., 1909-10-07

EDUCATIONAL HELP FOR 1Ros9EcToRs
The prospectors vocation, aside from being most fas
cinating one truly scientific in it's essential parts
any other industry which requires the application of clear
headed reasoning and the ability to fix the relation between
cause and effect 1t is probably fact that pospecoTs in
this country paying attention to what may be
termed the technical branch Of their business than the gem
era public is off, but still is difficult to get books
and out of the question to have them explained by compe
tent teachers The reports of the United States geological
survey have been great help along this line few have
taken in mineraogy from correspondence schools
and practically all who have followed prospecting for
number of years fairly competent to udg from
sorry examination whether given section of country
likely to be gold bearing not Gold being the principal
object of search here the probable existence Of other and
perhaps valuable minerals is not given consideration
with the chance always that fortune might be passed
unrecognzed Such considerations these should smu-
late rospector to avail themselves Of every opportunity
learn their business thoroughly.
In Colorado the School of Mines at Golden is doing
work for the pospectos of that state which for long time
must be left undone here except in far may &C.
.complished by individuals The school test rare
Free and will samples prospecors for purposes
of comparison While the immediate of this consi
GRAFTON may be chmerical lit is in the hope Of production
of raium, of which there pound extant in the
whole word the stimulating inu is bound to result
in great good to the prospectors and to the country
originated in donation to the school by Tom Walsh
prospecor, who has made fortune. Regarding it the
Denver NewsTines says:
That this will stimulate search for the open
to doubt And the metals worth than any other
metals partly because they partly because
have properties which the world sadly needs Chiefe Of these
radum 1t from known pichbende President
Anderson of the School of Mines has told
pichbnde be found half the mining districts
With careful Search there probability
important deposits and adding
the
Indeed any deposit important when one is dealing with
material worth several million dollars per pound.
But the financial returns the discoveries
pchbende lode the smallest consequence that discovery
which science has uncovered It is believed hold
ton Of poblems certainly has already proved
BILE Of doing strange things Exposed radium
diamond light and afterward gives
hours Exposed the action Of radiu, chemicals
unaccountabe fashions Elements show signs breaking
into simpler elements and there have hints
Paris that radum be made oppose it's action the
which we call gravity.
substance which the
of the Absolute and the other points possible
of Stockton whimsical NEGATIVE Gravity plainly
to be reckoned with 1t has interest greater than price
The purely mechanical problems the pretty
solved for the present, The
which to be eneTng deal with dynancs
sy, rather than with echancs forces rather
the direction of old Of all
holds such radaa
who finds pichbende Colorado will only
self He will supply fund of experimenting material which
scientific world sadly needs and perhaps humble
help the solution of problems whose existence