Show THE MINERAL INDICATOR Used With Successful Results in Slontana A few days ago The Herald republished repub-lished an article from the Kansas City Star relative to a mineral indicator the invention of a resident of that city Since then the writer has been informed in-formed by one or two of Salt Lakes old mining operators that they knew the inventor of the indicator and that they believed the instrument was ail right and to add strength to their testimonial in the matter the Butte InterMountain of recent date contains the following regarding the use of the indicator in Butte and according to the description given it is the same instrument in-strument invented by the Kansas City inventor The InterMountain says Joseph K Clark the vell known and popular mining man has been out otto ot-to n several weeks on some secret mission mis-sion and rumor has it that he is on the trail of another Mayflower mine He was very lucky in his purchase of the property near Gaylord and he believes there are hundreds of mines scattered about the his of Montana equally as rich as the Mayflower I is not generally known that Mr Clark possesses a divining rod for the location of minerals but such is the case The rod is not one of the crude and cheap affairs at which practical mining men turn up their noses but a remarkable instrument by means of which Mr Clark demonstrated buried I treasures can be traced with wonderful wonder-ful accuracy from the earths surface Mr Clark used the instrument to good j advantage during his exploitation of the Mayilower mine last summer and was not surprised when the ledge pinched out some weeks ago He traced the ore body to the point where the pay strep broke off short in the upper tunnel and was convinced then that the ledge like those in all lime formations had slipped away from there From the formation of the country he was inclined t believe that i had slipped east and it was on this theory that he determined to sink 100 feet in an endeavor to relocate the ore body Tne divining rod used by Mr Clark can be charged for either gold silver copper or lead hut in operating it much depends on the native magnetism of the operators body Mr Clark found Donald Gillis to be even a better opera tor than himself The instrument is the invention of a mining engineer who worked 25 years to perfect an appliance which would locate mineral and after experimenting with the different combinations com-binations of chemicals came to the conclusion con-clusion that the onl force cusion only available was the natural magnetism of the body bOdy1e apparatus however is connected with a number of what appears to be small batteries none larger than a dime Its chief characteristics are two long pieces of copper wire connected at once end with a piece of copper which is apparently very sensitive and which acts as an Indicator The wires are wrapped together for a foot or more back of this coppertongue at the end of which is placed one of the little I sought batteries prepared for the mineral I To operate the rod the operator places ope fend of the flexible wires in his mouth and the other end with both I hands holding the wires in front of him The indicator or copper tongue before being deflected stands straight I out before the operator bat when brought near a gold silver or copper ledge acts in a very curious manner The copper tongue oscillates and turns double sornersauits until the point is reached when the tongue turns to the ground and remains stationary So delicately adjusted is this tongue that a gold or silver coin placed 10 feet snakes distant tongue will make it oscillate like a |