Gilpin observer., 1913-03-13
THE PRosPEcToR
AND HIS euRRo.
(salt Lake Mining Review.l

prospectcr to his burro, ''as II you
had been playing Juliet to a. Icing ear
ed Romeo, and are just as hysterieal
and fidgity as a hem who had hatch
ed out setting of duck eggs, or
as a mine manager who has just put
In an amalgamaticn plant fer the
treatment Of his ores, and who made
the truly important discovery that
only Is per cert Of his gold would
amalgamate.
"Yon seem little peevish, and
want to know what hen Matching
ducks, or man putting i'm a free
miDMng plant for the treatment of
refractory cres has to do with you
and your Romeo; which shows that
Your mind lis Illogical and that you
cannot reason from cause to effect.
The only connection, in fact, is that
you look flighty,, the hem nearly had
a fit, and the mining man very near
ly lost his head; three conditions
almost parallel, and which are as
entirely foreign to each other as
You are to the hen, the hen Is to
you, and the mining man is to you
and the he1l. You say that / am
making you so dizzy that you feel
go on with my story before you be-
GIN to doubt your own identity and
come to believe that you are either
a hen or a man, ca. both; and so, If
you will not interrupt me again l
will tell you about the mining man
who put in milling plant for the
treatment of ore that was only 10
per cent free, and how he finally
pulled himself out of the hole by the
simplest and cheapest Of all methods.
This man." continued the pros
pector, made a discovery of an i'm
mense body of ore out in the Pea
vine range. The blossom showed free
god and lots Of 1T, but. when some
depth had been attained and the
ledge crcss-cut in several places, the
mine resolved itself into a milling
proposition going about $25 or $50
in gold to the ton. In some portions
Of the vein the ore was quite rich;
but, on the whole. the conditions sat
isfied almost every one that treat
ment on the ground would be neces-
sary, ard so q metallurgist in a
coast town was consulted. Tests were
made and finally an amalgamatfon
plant, with a capacity Of about ten
tons per day. was installed. There
was Joy In the camp when the
wheels began to go round. and, when
the pulp spread out on the copper
plates the mine owner stood ready.
with scraper in hand. to clean off
the great gcbs Of yellow metal which
were soon to accumulate on the
quick. But, the gcbs refused to ac-
oumulate, to amalgamate or to re-
ciprocate, and danced down the
tables. as IL. to keep on circulating
was the only object Of their bright
and glitterlng lives. Thusly. when
the mime owner saw his values head.
fng for the dump without paying amy
attention to the speed limitations,
he nearly lost his head, ais I have
previously stated. and had he not
been a worker who never got dis
couraged, he would have given up
the whole cheese and gone back
home TO Mary. But, he did not des-
pair. and so set about to find pro
cess that would save the ore values.
Another metallurgist came for look
in, and he said that the ore was
not free e-mflling at all; as II the mine
owner did not know Vt by that time;
and advised a very complex system
of teaching which called for the TN
stallatton Of costly machinery. This
advice was adopted and. after per-
iod Of several months trial run
was made. and lot Of $50-ore was
put through. Here, again. the gobs
would not accumulate, amalgamate
or reciprocate. In tact, they cried
out, nothing doing as they glided
by and sought sechlsion and their
soul mates I'm the taildngs pit; and
again the mine owner raved and al
most tore his hair; and he would
have done this burt for the fact that
he was bald. But. and 1t Is a wonder.
the mine owner did not give up. The
gold was in the ore and he wanted
to get 1t out. for he had never given
Mary diamond ring. and all his
Life he had ionged for a spike-tada-
ed coat. And so he went at 1t again.
BY some good chance some very fool
ish and simple looking person stig-
gested straight cyaniding. Simplicity.
You know, rs twin-sister to success,
but 1t is lacking I'm the frills and