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Show 14 MINING REVIEW. INTER-MOUNTAI- N failure because his customer is ignorant of the first principles of sampling ore. FRHSER St iMLxrsnnsjG- RdEJB&.c3iHira'iE:3E5',sr. CHHLMERS Sometimes a piece of rock is broken in two, the halves sent to difCHICAGO, DENVER, SALT LAKE CITY. HELENA, ferent assayers, widely varying results are obtained, and one of the operators is charged with an error, when in fact Mine and Mill Stamp Hills, both are correct, and the results are ' Supplies, Comet Crushers, chargeable to the fact that the metal was unevenly disseminated through Corliss Engines, Concentrators, the sample. It is well to remember that like results can only be reasonably ex- Boilers, Reidler Huntington Mills, pected when the sample is finely Pumps, Frue Vanners, crushed, thoroughly mixed and carefully divided. The. careful miner will Air Compressors, Crushing Rolls, treat his sample in this way, grinding Hoists, Etc., Etc. as fine as his circumstances will perManufacturers of mit, mixing and dividing carefully, and in every case reserving .a portion of the sample so that a check assay can be made if desired. As the best men are liable to an occasional mistake, no conCatalogues on application. Orders and Correspondence Solicited. servative miner will expend any large amount of labor or money upon the re- JOHN W. - - Salt Lake City, Utah. YOUNG, Western Manager, sult of a single assay, but will base his future work upon the concurring results of two or more reliable assayers. The best practical test of the qualifications of an assayer is his ability to R. CROFT, Manager. check with the smelters on their shipment pulps, and if you are in doubt with whom to trust you work, go to mNiingmelting Machinery, nann your friends who are ore shippers and And All Kinds of Builders Iron Work. get them to tell you who they patronize. No man can be honest in this Offloe and Works, 137 W. South SALT t.attv. c ITY Temple St., business without making many enemies among those customers who have had higher assays elsewhere than he can FOR THE GOLD FIELDS give them and who had rather believe their assayers dishonest or incompetent than that their ore is less valuable than they hoped. Remember that good men as a rule can get a fair price for their work. I have in mind an assayer in Colorado who probably does more TAKE THE business than any man in the West, and who charges $2 for a gold and silver assay, while others in the same town charge 50 cents, and the chances are that, considering the real value of the man results turned out, the comes the nearer to earning his fee. If TO THE there is any trade in which 'cheap and is is work valueless it nasty" utterly in that of the assayer. A "Retired Assayer" in Mining. UTAH FOUNDRY MACHINE CO., ercur, Utah, THE ONLY ROUTE two-doll- ar 1 Go to Harris & Mercur Gold Fields Wilson For Flret Life and Accident insurance. AND American companies only represented. i- CO g M H W (8 no s CO p A W GO W W 03 O O CO co iu hi z ? GO GO WJ And the 0. The Shortest Line and the Quickest Time between O 3 CHICAGO CO t Marysvale District, AS WELL AS Tintic, Eureka, Bingham, Henry Mountains La Sal, WEST. tin Promising Placers of tin Green, Grand and Colorado Rivers Through Pullman Palace Sleepers, Latest Improved Tourist bleepers. Free lteclining Chair Cars, Elegant Day Coaches. 65 D. E. BURLEY, General Agt. Passenger Dept. o co S. H. H. CLARK. OLIVER W. MINK. 2K Kndbson' O tm a. THE FAMOUS The Only Line now Running Through Are Located on the Solid Vestibule Trains to Chicago without change at the Missouri RIO GRANDE WESTERN RY. River. CL5 o Salt Lake City! Anil 2 -- I BEST ROUTE to all the Mining Camps throughout asrtant Utah. c 2 111 o O s CO I db E v WJ w H X u H o o to ttj Boise Gold Belt, a -J TO... CO Wtot- - FREDERIC R. COUDERT,, E. E. LOMAX, G. P. & T. Agt. E. DICKINSON, Gen. Mgr F. A. WADLEIGIY, General Passenger Agent. D. C. DODGE, Vioe-Pre- s. Salt Lake City. 8 II. DAB COCK, and Gen. Mgr. Wanted An Idea Traffic Manager S53 Protect your Ideas: they may bring you Write JOHN WEDDERBURN CO.. Patent AttoS Beys. Washington, D. C.( for their $1,800 price offer and list of two hundred inventions wanted |