New Britain herald., 1928-02-27
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Jill Justin, ultra modern and as :, lambently lovely at 70 as the Saga lfly. starts out on a moon-lit night August, accompanied by her brother Tony, to attend harvest festival
 The two run into an automobile hold-up. Jill is kidnapped by bandits. but later rescued by Jack Stuart and returned to her home in the small glass town of Elliston. W. Va.
 It is the old story retold. Jack stops for a visit and remains to wed the adorable Jill.
 Life is kind to Jack and his bride. and the passing of three years finds them the proud parents of pair of twin boys and girl.
 Then comes the Great Event. Stuart and Tony Justin purchase a tax title to property in the hills. in cooperating ali old abandoned silver mine.
 This mine proves to be valuable in tungsten bearing ore, and Pat Sweeney, father of the gyrul called Mike" buys a fourth interest in the tax title for $1o0.o0o Jack and Tony engage to transfer the ore to Pitts burgh in the Glass company trucks. Fear is entertained that hi-iackers may hold them up as moonshine smugglers, and plans are made to safeguard the trucks.
 Before starting the transfer Pat Sweeney takes the company, 1n- cludinY Father Ryan. to Pittsburgh, on | weekend party. At inc hotel Jill and Tony do an exhibition dance and are offered an enga cement by the management. They refuse an offer then, but later accept. The company returns to Elliston and transfer of ore is begun. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XVIII
 During their talk that evening Big Bill Guernsey outlined briefly for Jacks and Tony's benefit the man. ner by which he had come to stum- ble on the ore pile on their "taN title oil property"
 II had heard about tn old silver mine," he told them. T was curious regarding it, he went on, reminis- gently. You know it is said that West Virginia has produced, either in larga or small quantities, about every minera. known to science. Tn leaders. of course. are coal, iron, oil and tin--also lead. Gas. nat ,irally. is plentiful. The timber of tn state is famous.
 Well" continued Big Bill. con- tented grin stretching his humorous mouth, "when I saw that ore pile and then saw tn veins of rock from which it had been blasted, I grew more curious And curiosity, I want to remark, has led to a lot of valu- able discoveries, even though it may have killed some mongrel cat some time or other. Anyhow, took q sack Of that ore back to town and that night l made my little discov cry.
 "As you may. or may not be aware. tungsten, for good many years after its discovery. found very small demand except as an al- Joy in the hardening of steel. It was 50 years later that it began to he employed in the manufacture Of filaments for electric incandescent lamps.
 ''The largest deposits of tungsten occur in Asia. in tn ]ndo Malayan mountains. China now produces more than half tn worlds o/put. although it is found in practically livery couhtr? on tn globe, especial 4e where there are large deposits of granite and metamorpllic rocks where granite intrudcs. Ordinarily tn tungsten content of ore, as it is mined. is from ] to s per cent; in rare instances as high as 10. This ore on your property has run an average of per cent. and we have taken samples from every part of tn pile. But there is tn peculiar thing about tungsten ore: vein may be found, and every indication poit to its tungsten content being ineshaustible. Suddenly it peters out. And that may be tn only vein within miles of that location. Per haps this vein from which tn pile of ore was blasted will produce hun Treds of tons more. But we can have no assurance of it until we've taken out tn, ore and proven #. That's why tungsten ore mining is such a gamble always.
 When this ore was blasted out more than fifty years ago, tungsten vas an unknown mineral When discovered it's content ] hurried at oncc tc Chicago and informed Pat Sweeney. my employer. That's fh' how and why Of tn whole thing
 So far as there being oil-bearins rock beneath their property, Big i:ill was skeptical. What Jack had seen. he said. might be just a sur lace deposit
 "Eut you are sure all fh' ore in that pile is like that which you have tasted ," Jack asked him,
 "Yes." the expert replied. We've tdken samples. as I've told you, rom all parts Of tn pile. and they II run 10 th' s1me Naluo. And there E sufficient ore in that pile to net ?"nn. .oon"
 And that commcnted ] Tony, ID 2 tone of awe. will be $50. .0d0 for "scb of us. tncluding tn soldier"
 He looked curiously at the expert the man whose knoHledge of min erals had made the ore-plo an asset Of 5000. h"0 valuation.
 What I can't understand in thl.. matter" he went on slowly. 'i5 \ here you como in for your work your discovery and everythlns'
 "Oh. me-1'm on a steady salary Bill Guernsey informed him, and the experts tone carried no hint S-f J ,af, .<f