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Show The Mineral Hod Man. Mr. Peck, the man who pretends to find precious metals with a mineral rod what he calls an "electro-magnetic rod was in this place yesterday, says the Virginia Enterprise of the 11th in.-t., trying to locate the ore in (he Bullion mine. We believe he succeeded to his own satisfaction in showing the whereabouts where-abouts of the ore. Ho is the same man who was here with a miueral rod in iooo. xiaving estaonsnea me ore in the Bullion mine he left last night for San Francisco. The rod appears to contain two or three ounces of quicksilver quick-silver encased in some kind of covering. cover-ing. Mr. Peck says he does not bnow what is in the rod, but he knows that it is over 100 years old, and that its great virtue has been a thousand times tested. He made no remarkable discoveries dis-coveries with the rod when he was here 1 in I860, though euided by it miners made many locations. |
