Year: 1874

Gold Quartz that Pans Out Sl7.O0
to the Ton---The Assay.
| Two men entered the Office Of ". S.
Candee, banker, Michigan street, about
month ago, and walking up to the
counter, one of them, the spokesman
| asked Mr.. Candee if he bought gold
| dust.


They were rough, hardy looking men,
| wearing the dress of the laboring classes,
and having the appearance OF coming
from the woods. Such customers are
not infrequent in banking offices, and
the men in question excited no special
remark Mr.. Candee told them he did
not care TO be buyer of gold dust, but
he was in the habit of forwarding it to
the assay Office, and collecting for the
owner the true value as assayed.
The men then consulted together for
a few minutes, and finally one them
brought forth


BAG OF QUARTZ GOLD,


saying they desired to have it assayed,
and the value paid to either of them
when he called; which might be in a
week or fortnight. Before they left,
however, few words passed in explana-
ton of how they had come by the quartz.
They made out that they were Califor-
MIA miners, come home in this state for
spell, and having brought with them
specimen of some quartz on some prop
erty they had prospected, desired to
take the opportunity of their being IN
Milwaukee to have the stuff assayed, SO
as to learn it's probable value. No fur
ther attention WAS paid to the matter.
The usual entries were made, the usual
letter of advice written, the quartz was
expressed to the assay Office at New
about the two men till the returns were
was found that the quartz had yielded at
| the rate of


S17.OO PER TON,


a sufficiently large value to invest the
case with unusual interest.


In few days, one of the men came to
the Office and asked, rather dltfidently,
apparently half fearing to hear that the
quartz was comparatively worthless, II
news had been received from the assay
office. Mr.. Candee told them the re-
suit of the assay, and the mans delight



ted with the official returns from New
York, and paid over the actual value of
the yield of the quartz Naturally, the
parties got into a little conversation.
The part owner Of the quartz, IN the ex-
citement of the discovery of his newly
acquired wealth, probably forgot the
yarn they had spun, on the occasion OF
the first visit, as to their having brought
the stuff from California, and, becoming
chatty and confidential, confded to the
greedy ears of the listeners how and
where the quartz had been found. Then
he set to work and told them most
beautiful and romantic little story of
how his partner and himself had taken a
contract to build cellar for q new house
in certain city.


CUP NORTH,


that whilst so engaged they came across
a rock which appeared to their exper-
fenced eyes, he still stuck to it they had
been gold miners-to be bearing
quartz that with great secrecy they
broke up and smashed up part of the
rock, procured bag, brought it to Mil
waukee, and the rest of the story they all
knew. Rather rincoherently, considering
they had found the stuff in an accidental
cellar, the story-teller added, with evi-
dent truth, that they knew where to get
more of the stuff. and that the supply at
their command was practically nexhaus-
tible


| Soon after, the other partner came to
the Office. He wanted the sweet history
of that assay told over again from first
hand. He desired confirmation of his
| partners glowing story of the $1,70O
| per ton. He was duly furnished with


proofs namely, the returns themselves !;


and then his heart opened and his tongue
| loosed, and he gave them to understand
that his partner and himself had acquir-


ed title to 100 acres of land between


them in,


THE NORTHERN WILDERNESS OF THIS
STATE,


which was practically full of quartz as
rich, if not richer, than the specimens
| assayed.


Questioned more closely than before, he


said that they had concealed their ope-
rations under the pretense of charcoal


burning; and nobody had dreamed they
were engaged in the hunting of gold.


His reason for having told different
stories about the manner in which they
came into possession of the property
and the quartz, he said, was that any


statement that they had found gold in


such immensely paying quantities right


at our back doors, as it were, would


have been met with incredulity. Be


sides, although they had enjoyed some


experience as gold miners, they were


not so confident in their own judgment


as to go blindly to work, and consider


their fortunes made, without inquiry.


So they resolved to get out some quartz


and have it assayed in the manner des-


cribed. First, they got out a quantity


of rock; then they boiled some water


and put the rock into it until it became


sufficiently soft to work with such un-


suitable instruments as they could com


mand to crush it, and then they broke


up the rock.


Mr.. Candee suggested to them whether


it would not be well to return at once


get out larger quantity OF quatz, ane
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