The Kusko times., 1929-04-13

worst of it. Let's see just how he cut those samples"
 Larry grabbed moil and a single jack. It's like this, Jack; first he cleaned down the fein to get fresh exposure; then he took his carbide lamp and blackened two marker lines across the vein to define the width of the sample he was going to cut. These lines were five or six inches apart, I judge. Then do you remember how he shook off the canvas, laid it on the floor of the drift and began cutting channel square across the vein. Those channels he cut were about six inches wide and about an inch deep. When he finished the sample he had about ten pounds of broken quartz on the canvas. What I don't see is why he broke up all the big pieces ss particu- larly before he divided the sample. l suppose, however, he was particular Nuoo Aild Wdo d1i dlO 0OllC Ol tIlC OlS pieces would change his average one way or the other. After he had the samples all broken down, he mixed it by rolling it on the canvas; then he fiattened it out and marked it out into four pieces like he was cutting pie. He thre Waway two opposite quarters and began crushing the residue finer. Then he repeated the mixing and cut it again pie-fashion and retained the final two quarters of the pie for his samples"
 "Wait a minute, Jack" Larry re- sponded. Remember how he took out that fancy note book and did a lot of writing-not to mention meas uring the width of each sampler" "Yes, guess that takes in all of the steps except putting the number on piece of paper and wadding it into tight square and finally putting it on top of the sample as a marker. 1 don't see why we couldn't sample our vein the same way? Most of all, it takes a good strong night arm."
 "Now that we have this sampling racket threshe dout," grumhled Jack, q don't like the way that engineer turned us down. He says here-at the bottom of the letter that we have a oood procpoot hut bo dooc ,,of boJ;oxro it is large enough to interest his com pany. Why do you suppose he tackled that on? Something told me we l shouldn't have eaten that last can of grapefruit the night we celebrated. If we could have fed him up little fam cier probably he would have stayed on a few days longer and had bet ter look at the property. suppose, however, hat is just game those |. fellows have to throw us off the track regarding the value of the property so we won't ask too fancy a figure"
 "No, Jack" said Larry, with pug zled frown, "I believe he meant it. You know these big companies are now after the big tonnage mines even if they are grade. This big scale production is better suited to their or ganizations than small rich mines. It is like this: A big department store in Seattle isn't interested in little peanut stand nan adjoining town. Probably an individual can make money win the peanut stand, hut a big company, with its overhead costs, would lose money on such a small venture.
 q don't seen any chance of this property ever turning into a big ton- mage mine. We might get her up to the point where she could turn out 100 ons day, but even that is too small to interest the big boys. When we get ready to finance this property we will have to try other means, and if we don't watch out I suppose some