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Evening star., 1924-07-27

Soon the gold is all on the zinc, and
that metal has only to be melted to
get the gold out.
This, in brief and in the rough, is
the process. But it gives no concep-
tion Of the enormous machinery. The
mills rise one above the other, climb
ing the hill from the valley high over
the river to the height of a fifteen
story building. The ore is carried
from the mine to the top and it falls
by gravity through the various
processes.
The crushers and grinders and all
the machinery seem to be built like a
watch. and the work is done with
of the ore going through are made
every day. I watched the chemists in
the laboratory making their tests.
which are so delicate that some of
the scales used will weigh the hair
of a baby. In fact to test them /
pulled out one Of my eye winkers,
and laid it on the brass balance. 1t
weighed three-tenths of a milligram,
so little that, as Mr.. Kettenbach and
lar hairs to equal one ounce. The
scales will weigh a pencil mark on a
sheet of note paper. and the amount
of gold extracted is known to
a frazzle. With all this care they are
able to recover about SO cents in
every dollars worth of gold in each
ton of ore. They could get more, but
the extra cost Of operation would be
more than the profit
\ X
A FTER the gold is melted to bull
lion, it is cast into gold bricks of
ESQ ounces each. Such a brick is just
| about as big as the ordinary one used
in building a house. 1t is one-fourth
silver, and one-half gold, the rest be-
ing of the baser metals. Each brick
is worth about $2,500. 1t is shipped
by registered mail to San Francisco
Evening star., 1924-07-27
THEN I HEAR A CAT"

across the grandified glory of that
Forbidden City, home Of rulers who
no longer rule, emperors who no
longer emp. Await till Hon. Sun
come to throw UP his beams over or
10 miles Of goldy roofs, made en-
tirely of crockery just like a fash
ionable soup-dish with china devils
chasing themselves up & down pow
erfully in artistic places. Then, if
you can squeeze such a large por-
trait in your brain, think something
more astonishing. Think how each
one of those palaces cost more than
State Capitol Bldg with o. k. of
late Senator Penrose! If you do not
faint after that, there is no hope.
Hon. Chinese Philosopher tell me
that the Forbidden City are not half
so forbidding as it were Is yrs. of
yore when Hon. Empress Dowager
used to chop off tongues of her loving
subjects to remind them that they
Evening star., 1924-07-27
INTERVIEWING A DIPLOMAT
of
MuacI sbvesV o1entL Language
sssassis IT,.
To Editor The Star:

fANsS I&as
To Editor The Star:
~ EAREST SIR: No soonly had
I blewed into PekinE In a
storm Of sand from the
- Mongolian Desert than what
see awaiting me at Hotel? A
Chinese Philosopher, by golly! He
were a nice friend of a nice Man
DARN gentleman of who I got dearly
thick in Shanghai, and this Philoso-
pher say he were willing to quit his
banking business G. show me the
sights and scenarios of Peking.
When I told him I would make him
tired he say Yes. That might be
true. But there was many sights Of
his home town which he would like
see himself. and what better oppor-
tunity than show it to ignoral
strangers? I tell him Yes. Consider
able New Workers would never see
Coney Island & Goddus of Liberty If
not visited by relatives from Rome,
Georgia.
That Chinese Philosopher went to
bed the day left Peking. Other
wisely he would be walking yet.
Through 5 rude days of intellectual
rubbernacking, he remain gentle &,
sweet until l commence loving him
so muchly that l might took him TO
Japan If not afraid of Jail.
This Chinese Philosopher. Mr.. Edi-
tor are very oldy fashion gentleman
of Ming Dynasty. He say that trouble
with Chinese Republick are that it
ar heip m
think they are Americans because
they put on derby hats. Let them go
ahead, he say SO. until they break
their foolish noses on their patent
leather shoes.
From him 1 learn so muchly about
Peking that several bones in my
brain are loose and aching.
Setting in your office. Mr.. Editor,
suffering from reporters, printer
strikes & other calamities. I do not
think you have ever saw anything
like this ancient city with all its dust.
grandeur G. complications. In first
place 1 shall tell you how get to
Peking without map. Select any
spot in the Mongolian Desert & let
the wind blow you there. You will
dppTOdCH III q Siouu '" III duoi~
tional to dust, contain the following
articles:
Mongol came1s with Angora hair.
Chinese soldiers coming back to
Peking for nnd out when pay day is
II ever.
Manchu princes in Fords.
Buddhist priests on bisercles.
Chinese beauties with baby shoes
Evening star., 1924-07-27

run in streaks few feet apart, re-
tanning it's value for long distances.
The tunnel in which we are walking
is half mile long.
Now we step to the side of the
track-a steel car filed with ore is
coming over the railway. 1t is pushed
to the shaft by Igorots and carried
by machinery to the crusherS above.
The miners look weird as they dig
out the rock, clad only in loin cloths
and caps, in which each has a candle.
Returning to the surface, we take
walk through the mills. Here the
machinery is as fine and up to date
as that of any gold mine in the United
States, for the plant is operated after
the most modern methods. The ore is
mixture of white, gray and pink
quartz and iron sulphide. diorite and
clay, and the treatment consists Of
crushing and stamping the rock in a
cyanide solution and grinding it to
a powder that will pass through a
hundred-mesh screen. 1t is ground in
mills. where loose steel balls as big
as your first rub against 1t, and in
great rollers filled with pebbles of
smaller size.
All this is done in a cyanide solu-
tion. which sucks the gold out of the
dust into itself just as water sucks
salt. After the ore has been turned
to -four it goes into watts almost as
big around as a city gas tank, filled
with this same cyanide. and there is
stirred by machinery for the space
of nine days. By this time all the
gold has left the -four and been taken
up by the cyanide.
The next process is to get the gold
out of the water and cyanide. This
is done with zinc dust. The gold,
| which left it's old love, the quartz
and Joined the cyanide, now meets a
| new love in the zinc, and as the solu-
tion flows on it leaves the solution
and clings to the tiny zinc PARTICLES
Evening star., 1924-07-27

Gen. Bates, who was then conquer
ing the Moros on the Island Of Min
danao, had many reports of gold from
that region. The chief washings
were in the Surigao Peninsula, which,
on the map 1 have mentioned, has
numerous red circles with crosses
showing the placers. Gen. Bates
found gold in the hands of the petty
sultans and dattos, who sold it to
foreigners. The amount of alluvial
gold mined there leads to the belief
that there must be quartz lodes in
Mindanao.
There are placer mines in a half
dozen places on the Island of Min
gion within $50 miles of Manila, on the
eastern coast Of Luzon, where the gold
is washed down from the adjacent hills
to a tract of river fats.
Some Calitornians and New Zea-
landers have been getting out this
gold with dredges, and they are now
dredging in from the coast and
washing the soil. The gold is coarse,
and melted down it brings $18 per
ounce. The map shows the existence
OF both placer and lode mines in
Camarines Norte. and there are 'nu-
merous placers in Luzon back from
the east coast farther north. Sue
cessful mines have been operated also
on the Island dof Masbate. For some
years the annual gold output of the
Philippines has been worth more than
$1,0o0,000.
All this is preliminary to fresh
information l have as to the rich gold
regions of northern Luzon. I am
writing in the Antamok Valley.
which, roughly speaking, is 200 miles
north of Manila, and by the Benguet
road about 25 miles from the sea.
1 am in a canyon about a thousand
feet under a macadamized highway.
and the mountains about me are pep
Evening star., 1924-07-27
THINGS WE DO NOT SAY
Pictures Man and His Friends and Tells About the Thoughts That Pass
Through them but NeverA AreT Turnedto Words

talked-he and that silly young actor
they're always asking there that is
perpetually doing limitations OF the
vaudeville people.
That kind Of thing may be all right
for those who care for 1t; frankly
don't-outside q theater. But to my
mind the idea OF trying to throw
people into spasms of laughter at a
dinner table is simply execrable
taste. I cannot see the sense Of peo-
Pile shrieking at dinner. ! have, I
suppose, a better sense OF hurnor than
most people. But to my mind hu-
morous story should be told quietly
and slowly-in a way to bring out
the point Of humor and to make 1T
quite clear by preparing for it with
proper explanations. But with people
like that 1 fnd / no sooner get well
started with a story than some idiot
breaks in.
had a most amusing experience
the other day-that is, about fifteen
years ago, at . summer hotel in the
Adirondacks--that one would think
would have amused even a shallow
job-lot Of people like those. But
had no sooner started to tell it-or
had hardly done more than to de-
scribe the Adirondacks in a general
way-than. first thing l knew, my
hosteSs-stupid woman-had risen and
all the ladies were trooping out.
AS to getting in a word edgeways
with the men over the cigars-per-
fectly impossible! They're worse than
the women. They were all buzzing
around the Internal aviator, who'd
now run on to telling about flying
over Belgium during the war. tried
in vain to get their attention for a
minute to give them my Impressions
of the Belgian peasantry during my
visit there in 1850. but my host SIM
ply turned to me for q second and
said. Have some more port?" and
was back again listening to the ash
nine aviator.
And when we went upstairs to the
drawing room 1 found myself. to my
disgust, side-tracked in corner of
the room with that supreme old
shriveled prune OF a PROFESSIONALISM
uncle, 1 think, or something OF the
sort. In all my life l never met a
prosier man. He bored me blue with
long accounts of his visit to Serbia
and his impressions of the Serbian
peasantry in 1875.
should have left early, but 1t
would have been too noticeable.
The trouble with a woman like that
, is that she asks the wrong people to
her parties
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Evening star., 1924-07-27

where it is refined and turned to COM
mercial or artistic uses.
The hours are eight or nine daily.
The miners who work underground
get sixty EIGHT cents Of our money per
day, and those in the mills have an
average that is two cents in addition.
This is a little above the ordinary
wages paid in the region, and as to
the American workmen. they receive
much more than they could make at
home. Moreover. every IgoFot and
Ilocano has to have a ration of one
quart of rice every day. I am told that
the natives make efficient miners from
Far Eastern standpoint, but the out
put of ten of the men underground is
not more than equal to that OF one
sturdy conscientious American.
In closing this letter would say
that it might pay some one to investi-
gate the old Spanish records. The CO.
lonial government kept careful account
Of all it's mining operations. and for
a long time after the discovery of the
Philippines by Magellan a large per-
centage of all the gold mined went to
the King of Spain. According to these
records, the mines at Mabulo once pro-
duced one thousand ounces Of gold per
week, an amount that would be worth
$4,000. These mines were worked by
the natives before the Spaniards game,
and in later years they were in the
hands of an English syndicate. But
the English could not get the natives
to cooperate with them, and their min
ing was unsuccessful. Foreman. who
is one Of the best authorities on the
history Of these islands, estimates that
81 10000 was spent in vain in mining
experiments of one kind or another.
When the Spaniards took possession
Of the islands they found considerable
gold that they sent home in the shape
Of gold bracelets, chains, and orna-
ments. Two of their ships were cap
tured by Sir Francis Drake. and the
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Views on His EMPLOYER.


MEAN man. say It. OF course.
~ without any prejudice ana
II without the slightest malice.
\ But the man is mean. Small,
tAslk. Is the word.
am not thinking, OF course, OF my
own salary. 1t is not matter that
would care to refer to, though, as a
matter OF fact, one would think that
after fifteen years of work an appli-
cation for an increase of $500 is the
Kind OF thing that any man ought to
be glad to meet half way.
Not that 1 bear the man any malice
for it. None. II he died tomorrow,
no one would regret his death as
genuinely as 1 would. II he fell into
the river and got drowned, or IL he
got burned to death in a gas explo-
xinn. should feel genuinely sorry.
But what strikes me more than the
mans smallness is his incompetence.
It's not a thing that would say out
side. AS a matter Of fact, I deny 1t
every time ! hear it, though every
man in town knows it. How that
man ever got the position he has is
more than l can tell. And as for
holding it, he couldn't hold it half a
day if it weren't that the rest Of US
in the office do practically everything
for him.
Why, I've seen him send out letters
U wouldn't say this to any one out
side, of course, and I wouldn't like to
have it repeated)-letters with, actu-
ally, mistakes in English. Think of
it, in English! Ask his stenographer.
I often wonder why I go on work
ing for him. There are dozens Of
other companies that would give any
it's not ten years ago-I had an offer
tpractically an offer) to go to Siam
selling Bibles. l often wish now
had taken it. I believe I'd like the
Siamese. They're gentlemen, the ST.
amese. They wouldn't turn a man
down after Shaving away for fifteen
years.
often think I'll quit him. I say to
my wife that that man had better not
provoke me too far, or some day I'll
just step into his office and tell him
exactly what 1 think of him. I'd
like to. l often say it over to myself
In the street car coming home.
He'd better be careful, that's all.
Partner at Bridge.
THE man is a complete jackass.
How a man like that has the
Evening star., 1924-07-27
BY FRANK G. CARPENTER.

ANTAMOK, p. L
TOLD in the Philippines! Yes!
Gobs of it. Rich veins of quartz
that run through the mountains,
placer mines on the edge of the sea
worked up by dredgers, and prospects
that show that gold exists scattered
over the islands from the Babuyan
Channel, at the north of Luzon. to the
Borneo. I have before me the eco
nomic map of the Philippines recently
published by the Bureau of Commerce
and Industry. The gold lodes and
placers are marked with red circles
with a cross in the center. / find
them all over the islands; in some
places long distances apart and
others so close together that they
might have been peppered out of a
shaker.
Gold was known to exist in the
islands more than a thousand years
before they were visited by Magellan.
There are said to be records of it
in the third century AID, and during
the past 800 years there have been
numerous mines operated by natives,
Spaniards, British and Americans.
The Spaniards carried gold in their
galleons from here across the Pacific.
They toted it over Mexico to the At
lantic, and across that ocean to Spain.
heard many stories Of gold when
] was here 25 years ago. The soldiers
washed it out of the streams here
and there. Gen. Fred Grant told me
how one Capt. Pardie found five gold
fakes in a handful of gravel, and
near Vigan the soldiers found the
Chinese buying bamboo tubes Of gold
dust and nuggets from the Igorots at
20 pesos an ounce.
At that time an officer described a
rosary of gold nuggets that came
from the Negritos. The gold was Of
a light yellow color; it evidently
came from a placer. The nuggets
were of virgin gold and the smallest
was as big as a pea Holes had been
drilled through the nuggets and they
were strung on a silk cord. This
man said that the Negritos picked the
gold out of clear mountain streams,
and that they had no other methods
of mining.
Evening star., 1924-07-27
What's in Sea Food?

COME interesting experiments have
~ recently been made as to the con-
tent of sea foods. Dr. Donald X.
Tessler of the United States Bureau
OF Fisheries has found that oysters.
clans and Holsters are rich in iodine.
containing approximately 200 thsss
as much as beefsteak or milk, while
the shrimp contains about 100 times
as much. These results should be
Of the greatest significance in re-
gions where goiter is endemic. Nine
Randolin. chief of the French Insti-
tute of Food Hygiene, reported re-
Gently to the Academy of Science Of
Paris that oysters are a preventive
and quick and certain cure for
scurvy. This is due to their high
vitamine content
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Queer Wells.
WELLS that draw in air at certain
w times and blow IT out at others

WELLS that draw in air at certain
" times and blow It out at others
have been observed in many places.
From time to time one of these curl
osities is discovered" anew, and If
the discoverer Is a careful observer
he soon finds that the cause is baro-
metric. The blowing or "whistling'
we'll connects with = subteranean
reservoir Of air which is compressed
when the outer air becomes heavy
and expands again when 1t grows
light. Certain Of these wells situated
in tho canton Of Geneva, Switzerland,
have been scientifically Investigated.
These wells arc considered by the
inhabitants az very exact forecasters
of the weather. When the wells blow
out air, 1t is a sign that rain is to
follow, and when air Is drawn in,
it is q sure indication of fine weather.
Since the Swiss wells are covered
with . fat stone having q hole in 1t.
according to the custom OF the re-
gion, it is easy to observe the direc-
ton which IL taken by tho current
of air. Observers installed upon one
Of the wells q pressure gauge, and
thus learned some interesting things
about the air currents They found
that such . we'll Is very seldom in
a state of equilibrium. 1t blows out
when the barometer falls. and sucks
in air when 1T rises.
These wells lie In strata of alluvial
gravel covered with vegetable earth
which rs quite or nearly impervfous
to water. 1t is therefore thought
that owing to the spaces which exist
between. the stones Of the gravel.
these strata Of gravel form a res
ervoir Of great capacity In which
water eirculates. and that the water
Of the we'll IL forced into the cavities
when the atmospheric pressure Is
heavy, and 1t leaves them when the
pressure il light The effect OF these
movements is thus felt within the
we'll, inasmuch IS the latter forms
the connecting point with the outer
air. This phenomenon may be said
to have q considerable analogy with
the emission Of gases by certain hot
springs, to caves where q current Of
air circulates on the ground, to the
variations in tho flow Of springs and
othsr phsnomena of like nature
Evening star., 1924-07-27
on the place where their feet used

on the place where their feet used
to be.
To get into Peking you go through
a wall. There are more walls around
Peking than around residence of Hon.
Hen Ford. Detroit. That Chinese
Philosopher tell me that Emperors
used to build walls to keep out the
Generals G. Generals used to build
walls to keep out the Emperors. Re-
suit of this are that Pekihg are SO
well protected that European Powers
Gncluding Japan) can now live there
and steal without fear of arrest or
prosecution.
MR. EDITOR. I wish you would
A'A come to Peking some Satdy
when you wish to escape. See China
first. That are my motta. Think Of
such a place! Just by hosting your
self to 5th floor Of Hotel de Peking
you can squirt your eyes straight
Evening star., 1924-07-27
,ese Schoo7bou-

shouldn't throw bottles in the I'M
perial Dynastic Goldfish Pond. TO-
day happy republicans are doing that
prank very jolly, while carrying babies
fteas. photo supplies & other innocent
amusements including picknick lunch
right up to Throne Room Steps &
around the Lake of Frightful Blessed
ness. where they can eat pie-kow
sandwiches comftbly on shadow side
of a pagoda built 5000000O0 yrs back
by Mr.. Ming, an emperor.
Since those Manchu Tyrants got
chased off from China there has been
lots Of good feeling and bad house
keeping. In Most High Temple of the
Winter Palace sets the great Cold
Buddha, looking sort of Tammany
Hall with one % black eye what the
Dept. of Publick Works will patch UP
some day, maybe. when they can
bora back what the Committee or
CONTINUED on Sixth Page)
Evening star., 1924-07-27
Id Mines of the Philippines Worked by Igorots and Americans

booty was so great that Quake, so
they say, going over to China was able
20 fit out his vessels with silken sails
and silk ropes, and thus sailed into
London
tCsrpenter's World Travels Copyright 1872. 1,
Evening star., 1924-07-27

100000 Gold
DnkeG nNrhs snsdn- Interesting nu@dGMG GHngmHe "a
Evening star., 1924-07-27

RUT come with me and 60 down
~ into the mine and see how these
semi -savages dig out gold for the
Americans. We climb up . shaft
house and enter Z small elevator with
barely enough room for three to
squeeze in and stand upright. A steel
Evening star., 1924-07-27

Continued on Sixth Page.)
New Britain herald., 1924-11-04
SpurningA Auto, CooLidge!s Eather Driues OM Horse And Wagon 10
 Pok And Ls First Man 10 Vote
Neighbor Announces Intention of Voting For Davis So Plymouth Will Not Go Solidly For "Cal'-HaIf of 214 Voters Are Women

Plymouth, Vermont, Nov. 4.-Col. John Coolidge. father of the presi- dent, was the first 10 cast his vote when the polls opened in this town. the presidents birthplace, today. Promptly at 10 o'clock when the voting was to begin, Colonel Coolidge entered the hall at Plymouth Union accompanied by his housekeeper, Aurora Pierce, and marked his bal lot.
 The presidents father earlier had refused offers by several persons to drive him In an automobile over the mile of hilly road that separates the Coolidge home from the Frank II. Moore hall at Plymouth Union. He hitched up his horse and buggy and drove 10 the hall accompanied by his housekeeper There the two bal lots were deposited in boxes im- provised from butter pails. It has become tradition in Plymouth that Colonel Coolidge will cast the first ballot on election day.
 Although the vote in the presl- dents old home town Is expected to be overwhelmingly for Coolidge, 1t was said that there would be at least one vote for Davis in the town. Neighbors of the presidents father said today that one man had an- nounced his intention of voting for Davis in order that 1t might not go solidly Coolidge.
New Britain herald., 1924-11-04
TRAIN CRASHES AUTO
 BUS, Il ALREADY DEAD
Baby Only One of Four
 Survivors With Chance of Recovery

Newport News, Va, Nov. 4.--Only four of the fifteen persons in bus struck by Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train late yesterday at a blind crossing in North Hampton re- mained alive today, and only one of those, an infant, was thought to have a fair chance to recover. Eight were dead before rescuers arrived, and three others died shortly afterward.
 Few details of the accident were obtainable during the night. Ben Battlin, engineer of the train, which was making a speed of 45 miles an hour, said the first indication he had that the bus was on the tracks was the crash, None of the survivors could be interviewed, and a coron- CTS jury, after viewing the scene, decided not 10 hold its inquest until tomorrow.
 The bus, which was operated be- tween Hampton and Poquoson, Va, was struck squarely in the center and demolished. Bodies of the dead and injured and fragments of the wrecked car being scattered along the tracks for several hundred yards.