Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-30
GROWS is
CLAIM MADE BY
NINE ENGINEER
Cites Case in Colorado Where
New Crop of Bearing
Ore Is Found.
METAL IS PERISHABLE

DENVER. May SO.-That gold, the most
nrscious of metals, actually grows" Is
the contention of Peter McFarlane, wide
" known mining engineer, in pamphlet
issued here.
In his pamphlet, entitled Grown,
Gold f" NcFarlane sets forth many
startling results Of his fifty years OBJ
servation of gold mining development
in this region, citing instances OF the
actual growing of gold in veins that
had yielded much CT the yellow metal
and had been declared ''panHed out
onlv to be reopened with an increased
production from the ribbon" that sup
posedIy had given up its last ounce OF
gold.
If to eradicate an error ana estab-
Hsh n truism in its place would be OF
benefit TO humanity" McFarlane
hopes. by PRONUNCIATION OF his new
theory TO enable those interested in
cold mining to set aside dangerous
and misleading faIlacy shat has existed
since man began his hunt for gold, and
mt miners in possession Of a truth that
viii result in greater assurance OF
financial success I'M every phase Of auri-
ferrous mining"
SAYS GOLD
Is PERISHABLE.
Disputins all accepted scientific de-
Termination, McFarlane declares that
not ony does gold grow" but that the
immutable metal is perishable.
For centuries, McFarlane says, mining
engineers have been timid about predict
ing Just where gold would be found be-
cause Of Jobs ScripturaI advice, given
5000 years ago, that gold is where you
find it." and he proceeds TO shatter all
precedents by declaring that, while gold
viii not grow" everywhere in mine,
ssit will grow in every auriferOus vein
where opportunity is given to manifest
itself"
ait may be broadly stated" Nc
Farlane says, that there is not a gold
bearing fissure that has an apex ON
the face Of the globe but in some way
or other produces a crop Of grown
gold"
In relating occurrences in his expe-
rience OF the actual growing Of gold.
McFarlane points out how this phe-
nOmena has deceived experts Of IN
doubted authority and the utmost integ
rity, men who probably never suspected
that gold grows"
SPECIFIC CASE
II TAUTOGA MINE.
In November. 1869. according to Nc
Farlane. together with several other
gold seekers, he started operations in the
NautOsa mine in the Russell district of
the Georgetown loop" about forty
miles from Denver. The cervice Of this
mine was well defined and Of the true
fssure type. The mine had been worked
before. but for years had lain idle. be-
inss abandoned because it had "panned
outs The first shipment Of ore under
the McFarlane regime from this mine
assayed S33 per ton in gold. The sec
ond shipment showed very little gold
and the third shipment gave only
''trace," whereupOn the WautOga was
once more abandoned.
Twenty seven years later a new COM
pany operated the WautOga property, re-
Stunning where the McFarlane interests
had ceased work, and. for the second
time upon reOpening the first shipment
Of ore contained gold in paving guam
titles. Like on the preceding occasions,
however, the ore dwindled in gold value
as the operations continued.
1T always seemed strange that each
time the WautOga was worked" McFar-
lane writes. "that the start-up produced
an ore carrying more gold than was sus-
tanned by ores broken afterward. or dur
ing its period Of constant exploitation,
but no extensive investigation OF the
cause was made at that time"
Gradually, however. the idea dawned
upon McFarlane that the gold appear
ing in the first shipment grew on the
face Of the exposed mineral, and his in
vestigations, covering a period Of fifty
years, have confirmed this to be a fact
he says.
McFarlane advocates the passage Of a
bill pending n Congress allowing a bonus
on each ounce OF new gold delivered TO
United States minis, and also sounds n
warning against the country permitting
its gold reserve to diminish.