| Show GEOLOGIC SURVEYS WORK Fake Promoters Make Capital Out of Governments Reports The daily dail newspapers have published several sensational accounts concerning con corning thousands of acres of placer ground In dlf dir f frent flent rent parts of or the country countr which have been rendered of or phenomenal value Y lue by b brn rn on of or the alleged l discovery of Dr Da IDa DaM vir M T Day Daj that the tho gravel contains large lar e amounts of gold says Mining and Scientific Press It Is said that samples sent t to ti i him at Washington or Portland have havea a ayrd thousands of or dollars per ton and so f 5 forth Now ow while we wt would not belittle bt any of the geological survey to aid the minors miners In making the most of or our mineral r rf M w WI are beginning le to believe that tat Dr researches into black sand rand n are v P affording more mor ammunition to irre promoters and to a sensational press pre s than they are actually improving the treatment of ot a material the existence of which was known long before the experiments were made However work of ot oton one on of the most active ricers officers of of ot the sur survey survey survey vey is being ridiculed not undeservedly Here Hero is a telegram from Cheyenne say ing ine that his assay shows that the dirt rens to a ton In gold SO W per cent magnetic Iron 54 4 t per cent hematite mak making makIng making ing these claims the placers in inthe Inthe inthe the world At the same time we read in one of the leading papers of ot Australia that Dr David T Day an American government expert has created a new in industry Industry in the northwest of or the United States After months of patient investigation gation he has proved that the common black sands of or the Pacific coast are rich richin in lu useful minerals and that good steel can be bc made from this sand This Is the sort of ot stuff that Is appear appearing appearIng appearing ing periodically it puts the survey in an absurd light lI ht Not long ago some one dis discovered discovered covered cover d that clay contains aluminum and then proceeded to form a company to smelt that metal from a common min mineral mineral mm eral oral indeed Dr Days black sand re rc reminds reminds minds one of ot the story of Governor of Colorado who took N P Hill into the San Luis Luls valley and there expatiated to him on its possibilities t as a great gr at region ending up with an index finger that pointed to the glistening Quartz sand at the foot toot of the Sangre de do Cristo range And there pro professor profEssor fessor Is the silica from which the bot bottles bottle botties ties tle will be made |
