Show DISCOURAGING EXPERIENCE OF OLD MINE MAN 4 Ships Car Ore From Northern North North- ern Nevada to Smeller Vi With l Sad Results One oC of the that discourages es esthe th the prospector or minor miner on oi a small scale calc Is tho the result of ot m my experience out ln northern Nc Nevada n. n few weeks ago ngo said nn old mining man well known In n western states who vho was In Salt Sail Lake the past week neek I took a lease on a anice anice anice nice little copper property In n a I. I known mineral belt In northern Nevada eada I got sot out between fifty and sixty tons of ot ore ore that sampled from 4 to as high hl as s 20 0 O per cent copper with several e ounces to the ton From m my Ion long e ex experience ex- ex In Lu mining and handling ores orea I am m certain It should average near Sper Sper S Sper per cent copper When we wc came to the tho sid siding In where a n big car should have ha been set out for us we found one with on only oily I a n capacity of or pounds or fort forty ton tons But Dut we were told tod we might load it up to forty five and possibly tin fifty ton tons and it tt would go through all nil right So w Wu piled plied the ore all on but about ten ton tons We Ye were all day In doing It U. When hen th the th freight train came alon along the conductor swore and declared that the car was loaded so 50 O hea heavy It break breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough through and wreck his train However How How- c ever cyer r. r he It It W was S shipped to a California m lter I Now ow s the rub When I 1 got ol hed at It Its size my eneck I was astonished The Tho bill credited me with only a 0 little tittle littlemore littlemore more than thirty tons the copper coppel Content content con cun- tent had been cut low and the silver Il deductions ons were h heartrending ea d I n g. g The worst feature however was the weigh certain we wc had on not a around weight I am tons I got pound round less lees than forty five about out of or the tho car I 1 threw UI up the sponge and came home Had 1 I re received re- re fair tall treatment I 1 would be mining min mm- ing InS there toda today I 1 certainly certain hope the tho government o smelter business so sowo o owe may take over the wo we may know that there will be no nomore nomore nomore repetitions of ot such experiences We Vc more can well afford to pa pay good fat railroad and Increased smelter meller charges rates when we wc know lenow that v e e. e get credit for the full tull value in our ores |