The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-07-01
PROSPECTING MADE EASY.

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A genius from Hanford, California
the father of over thirty inventions,
one of which has been patented" an
nounces the perfection of a set of
scientific, accurate, and practical in
struments" that should make pros
pecting not only definitely successful,
but delightfully."- easy and comfortable,
and unattended with the hardships
usually experienced by the seeker for
natures hidden treasure. In apprising
the interested public" of its good for
tune in having available his services
and instruments, the inventor makes
this startling assertion: THAT they
will locate or indicate the whereabouts
of a mineral or ore vein, and buried
treasure, while riding at full speed in
an auto. and that distance does not
seem to make any difference in their
locating power. 1 have tested some of
my instruments for a distance of over
$50 miles" We marvel at the velocity,
but we can readily accept the state
ment in so far as it describes the uni
formity of results In these days of
gloom, it is pleasant to contemplate
anything cheerful even a cheerful
liar Taking the inventors own con-
servative figures, there are alluring
possibilities in a range of, operation
circumscribed by a 350-mle radius
The would be mine owner could pros
pect the entire Rocky Mountain region
in the course of a fortnight without
corner of a Pullman car Here is a
further assurance: 81 have perfected
separate instruments to locate the fol-
lowing minerals: gold, silver copper,
lead, galena, magnesite, mOlybdenum.
chromite, zinc, nickel cinnabar, tung-
stem, platinum. and Oil" The presence
in the list of a "galena detector" as
well as a device for lead reminds one
of the farmer who after the cat had
kittens. cut small hole in the floor
of the n-crib, beside the large one
by which the mother was wont to en-
ter. Unfortunately, Germany is the
only country that will patent mineral
instruments. hence l do not sell or
loan these instruments. but only locate
with them upon the following terms"
For locating a mineral vein or lode"
these terms are "S15 per day plus
expenses, and half of what
is located" However. special rates
will be arranged when more than one
location is made for a single client,
so that a sizeable enterprise can avail
itself of the services of this scientific
without pledging so per
cent of its future production This
seems only fair. The gentleman be
Ongs to a genus with which we can
claim some acquaintance already.
There be those who can diagnose the
geology of a region by aid of a tele-
scope; there are others who can ap- [
praise a mine from a specimen of ore; a
here are scribes who can write ar s
icles on mining districts without go q
ne to them and give wordy accounts o
# processes without seeing them in n
peration; the world is full of takers. "
word that must not be confused W
With "fakir." A 'faker" is one who V
makes or cOntrives; it is a good Anglo b.
axon word "Fakir" is Arabic for poor OF
ian and designates the mendicants Sc
r religious beggars of the East Some m
these fiscal agents, as they are in
allied in the vernacular of today are tn
'mething of both; they concoct. they FIR
ag and they almost make a religion ne
the art of deception tn