Show Gold Pound Found Foud in Tree Tee Ashes New ew York Tork Press Pros Many an enthusiastic botanist will wil tell tel you ou that certain of his ida specimens are worth their weight In Ia gold Of course curse he has In mind the tho extreme rarity of oC the plant plat or root Very VeI different however Is the meaning of o Dr E E B a awell awell well wel known metallurgical chemist when he lie states the proposition that certain ertin trees are worth orth a proportionate part of uC their weight In gold ROld for after conducting many experiments on certain classes clashes clame ot oc trees tree he has hu come to tho the conclusion that such trees actually contain pure gold In a diluted diute form Chemists have long suspected that gold gol I might mi ht slowly alow dissolve In surface water and an have disposed of or the objection that that proposition has ha never b ben been en estah by analysis by contending that hat the solution is Js Infinitely weak After giving Iving the te subject considerable study and thought Dr came cameto cameto cameto to the conclusion that if i the surface wa wit water Water witter ter contained dissolved gold at all al however how however ter ever small smal thO the quantity It I should naturally naturI I ally aly bo ho b drawn dra wa up UI by the roots root of DC trees tr I I in the near ner vicinity and would there ap appear appear appear pear In more substantial form f rm Accordingly ho selected a n number rumber of trees tro growing in the neighborhood of oC lodes lode and placers had them felled and cut ut them the Into pieces of or convenient size size After the bark had been removed r m with wit about abut one inch of 01 the outside wood the pieces piece were placed upon a clean clon sheet shet of oC corrugated corrugate Iran and anti fired tired The ashes which yet jet contained grains of oJ charcoal I where then collected and assayed cd I The ent was not a a distinct l suc success cogs cess ce While gold was undoubtedly pres present pre eat ent its Ite quantity was vas so gO Infinitely small smal that an accurate a urt estimation of or its It amount or or fineness was out of at the question As s these thes trees tres were wr of ot the soft sor wood vari variety van var ety It was thought that hotter bottor results might ll ht perhaps be lie obtained by b experimenting e peri upon trees of ot a different kind Ind And that is 18 just what happened The T e ashes of or sonic some ironwood trees treis tr yielded between 10 cents cent and 40 cents worth of ot gold wold to the ton In all al of r these experiments only the trunks of the trees tree tre near ncr the roots rot had haJ been used and It was determined there the therefore therefore fore Cor to ascertain whether more satisfactory tory tOr results could pot be obtained by b re no reducing re I the upper branches to ashes ashe The branches to be richer In gold sold than I any ens other part of or the tree theretofore tested In one Instance the ashes yielded no nn less les than 11 worth of ot gold goM to the theton theon theton ton on while in many cases canes the te assay aB a return ret of Or over 1 per Von u uThe The significance s of or these thesa l M pr experiments ex II ti Ups s n in the fact tact that they thc establish beyond I all aU doubt that t t gold Jold Is dissolved by the te tee surface e waters traversing and percolating i ins ing in gold cold zold formations They give rise like wi e to the interesting question as to I which of at these thee surface waters water possesses Desse this thin property Dr Lun bus lias not attempted to an answer answer answer It but has left it I for further In Investigation Ho advances tho the theory teory however that this thi peculiar action acton must have hap a n disastrous effect upon gold de do deposits posits In the course coure of time As ts A to tho the business opportunities in involved involved involved In the discovery it is perhaps sufficient to say sa that that the tho lovers lover of ot trees need feel no apprehension as to any wholesale ule destruction of ot them for the gold zold yielded Is too little to warrant the expense e 0 t e |