Show HOUSES BUILT OF GOLD ORE Pittsburg Dispatch One reads of romantic rom castles of oC sil silver si siver ver vel and palaces of gold but ut they the arn ar arthe arthe the dreams of or fiction now they tiley th y have havn discovered something as strange on tl Fe map of Mexico The buildings of a n whole town have been bought for Ir e n much a ton based on assays from roar thi tiFt adobe walls wails which give gIc gold and an nilve values alucs This town is su an suburb suburb burb a village of lOO h estimated at a value of Mexican currency The value of this little town was re revealed revealed revealed when the Mexican Central de dp decided decided to build into the city of f Guana Guanajuato Guanajuato GuanaJuato juato and md to establish a station running into the heart of the town towa in instead instead Instead stead of touching only at Marm Fomo FOrnI kilometers distant It was found fount nece necessary sary zany to tear down about 00 building T which have been built of the slimes sHines produced by the grinding of ores from the numerous mines of the district Straw was mixed with the slime and in lit inthis inthis this way the adobe bricks were made When it became known that the Can Cen Central Cantrill trill would have to tear down own these houses an enterprising ore buying corn com company orr pany asked for tor permission to assay or orr taken from the buildings This Tills was wa granted ranted and samples were picked from the walls at various heights and ancI on va various varl Various rious rl us sides of the buildings the Ull assays assaY running in value from 3 to 25 2 a ton in gold and silver sliver The values alues average 8 I gold to the tire ton tonAs tonAs As the buildings were built la hI l various bonanza bonama epochs it was found that tin tn values lues varied to a large extent For instance a wall on one side of a houi would assay a high value A mans man kitchen might assay 50 cents a ton and his hl parlor iiO 50 or the window where the girls face is seen may have been for the lie pleasing pastime pre pee presented presented at a considerable loss to that side of the house That the walls arc are found in to contain more gold than sliver silver values is due dle to tn the fact that the old paUl patio of treating the ores was more effective In ill extracting silver than gold values anI all the tire slimes left were richer In gold poM than silver It will be harder to build such sucha a town In the future as the camp is isrow I row po fitted out with modern modem appliances for treating ores Hence tie the houses now built of adobe lack the genuine wealth w of or the earlier homes A man maii may no longer hanger build his IliS home of gold goH goHn n 1 sliver silver bricks There are now noV operating in Guan juato or in lit course of construction wo bOt stamps and in six months there will ha he nor more ore worked than in any other othor town ton of the lie republic Immense i of ore untouched by hy are being worked by b ton hon t ll It appears that Guanajuato Mill a ill change from a silver siver to a gold camp because from 40 to 60 GO per Tnt of tre values left lef by the th ancients is gold gol due doe to I their primitive iSS s Guam Cuan juato is tile the thE only t wn WI In the th v lorl 1 in which tile HIP tH houses are built hun of ot gold ani silver b only town without pure unadulterated dirt dirt I |