The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-08-05

and in gratitude for the assistance
which had been given by the engineer
he offered to show him these proper
ties and let him locate some claims for
himself or his employers. The engineer
had gone out into the desert with the
count. found the son-in-law in a lit
tie shack surrounded by various chem
icals and this Frenchman produced
! buttons of gold before the eyes of the
engineer The latter had fallen for
the swindle. had located a lot of claims
for his employers and taken samples
from them. These had been sent to
an assayer in the west. who reported
gold in all of them by ordinary pro-
cesses, although the report of the SON
in-law, who had kindly assayed these
samples for the engineer by his al
legged process. showed much larger re-
suits. SO the engineer came back to
New York and reported what he had
done. and they had come to consult me
told them of course the chances
We're a thousand to one that the whole
thing was fake, but that / believed
the engineer to be honest even if not
shrewd AS these claims had been
located. / advised that they get a man
from Los Angeles or somewhere to go
out and take other samples and bring
them away without going near the
French assayer or giving him an OPP
portunity in any way to salt them. In
due time the samples came, and in
the presence of a distinguished sub
committee of the owners, and of the
engineer we went through the form
of testing the process. particulars of
which had been furnished. and of
course got no gold whatever; nor did
we by fire assay. 1t was a plain case /
Of sailing or slight Of hand in the pre-
vious development of the scheme.
In the meantime the French count .
had gone home, and when the Ameri-
can engineer, or his employers. re-
ported to the count the result of this
Independent samplng and test very
much to their establishment cable
came back saying that the count had
absolute faith in his SON in laws won
ierful discovery; that if the New
Workers. would cable him the amount
IF money they had expended on the
OcatiOns. sampling and our tests, and
would send him assignments of the ,
'laims, he would reimburse them in .
NIL. This was done. and these lucky
New Workers got their money back,
md the count must later on have dis I
covered that he and such friends as I
nay have joined him were victims of c
windle.
Fell for Gold Brick.
The old gold-brick has not passed
is by. A reputable physician from
llbany came to us with some borings, 4
which. while he waited, were tested
or gold Asked by him to calculate
he value of a bar of such-and- such
assuming it's fineness to
re that of the borings we had assayed. /
We made it up in the thousands of dol
lrs. The doctor said that he had met Il
d-shirted miner who had come q
rom the west with all his savings in t
his bar of gold. He needed money {
nd would sell it for $4,000 but of }
curse did not expect the doctor to I
ay for it without test. He pro- !
osed that they come to a machine
hop where the bar should be bored G
through. The doctor could take the
orings to an assayer and upon his t
eturn pay for it if satisfied as to its :
aue. I
I warned this doctor that he was on
he edge of being swindled, but moth >
lg would convince him. Back he
anne in a few hours, carrying a satch-
and triumphantly produced the bar. Z
me look at it showed that it was
rass, and an assay yielded no gold. q
.ater, the victim discovered at the f.
lachine shop that while he was away Ii
citing our assay the miner" had TAX n
n another bar out from his bag. of =
ne exact dimensions fthe original
old bar, and had had the second bar a
rilled through with holes exactly n
DUPLICATING in location those made in y,
le previous bar. N
had the curiosity to communicate s.
it'll the doctor some months later, and -
und. as was to be expected that 81
either through the police nor other
Use was he able to discover who had
vindled him.