Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-21
GUN CLUES ARE MINING
 SHOT ON THEIR GROUNDS
By PETER P. CARNEY


 The war has taught us to save taught us how to get the most out of the things we use-taught us how to utilize numberless things that in by gone days were wasted.
 Waste and Americans are no longer on friendly terms. We are firm in the belief that the friendship will not be renewed. Without this friendship the days of waste in the United States are over.
 The conservation tree, planted dur ing the war, is bearing more fruit right now than we in our fondest hopes ever imagined it would. Xvi dences of it's fruit bearing possibilities reach us daily. Conservation is being practiced along lines that few in the past ever gave thought.
 For example, trapshooting clubs are retaining shot from the soil For years the shot fired at clay targets been allowed to remain in the ground. Never again will the grains of shot be allowed to remain in the soil any great length of time.
 There are more than 1000 active gun clubs in the United States and Canada and the majority of these clubs have been staging weekly shooting events OSGI IuG SdLlS 6IOuHuS IOI years Where a number of men and women have been popping away at clay tar gets continually for years there is a lead mine. All it needs is developing. Many clubs are now engaged in the mining business,
 For the benefit of clubs interested iii the reclamation and conservation of lead from the soil we want to inform them of the methods being used in eX- tracting the shot. There are two systems-the Blower and the Placer.
 How Shot is Extracted.
 The Blower system was used in ex tracting 23 tons of lead from the old duPont Shooting Park in Wilmington Del. The workers stripped the surface in the area where the greatest amount of shot fell, scraping off about one inch of the top soil and sod. This was wheeled to a sort of a shredding ma chine which chopped the soil up fine A blower attached to this machine was just strong enough to blow out into pile the soil, and the shot being slightly heavier fell into a trough and ran into sacks. The equipment used was inexpensive, consisting besides the shredding machine of a small gasoline engine to operate the shredder and blower. Four men wheeled sufficient dirt to keep the machine going steadily.
 The Placer system can only be op- erated successfully where there is plenty of running water. It is similar to the system used by gold miners The apparatus needed is simple and can be constructed by any one handy with a saw and hammer. This sys- tenn has been used in extracting the shot from the ground at Elliot's Shoot ing Park in Kansas City, Mo. This park is situated on the banks of the Blue River. The water can be had for the expense of pumping it Uncle Bob" Elliot, the owner of the park, doesn't recommend the salvagins of the shot where less than a. hall million rounds have been fired. Two hundred and fifty thousand loads g year for 12 years were fired on the Elliot grounds before the mining oper- ation began.
 Knowing that there were S,000,00t loads in the ground MT Elliot set out to reclaim the shot. His first work extending over period of four months, was more or less of an ex- pertinent. as he had no fSed plan tt follow. He salvaged sS50 worth O shot at four cents a pound, at a cos to him of s525, which included tn, purchase of engines, pipes and the en tire cost of operating. He has mined much more lead and at very smal