Show THE DIVINING ROD one of the best articles on tile the location of mineral deposits by the divining rod in method ethod which has appeared in a long time was published in a late issue of the denver mining american it is reproduced below and will be found well worth reading this may seem a trifle impertinent to those highly gifted persons who posses an instinct for the location of hidden mineral deposits without work but there are many practical persons who are prone to inquire of the divining rod man why it is that none of his kind has ever climbed into the class of john D rockefeller and other billion aires we have before us some striking illustrations lust rations and claims to unusual ability sent to us by a personal mineral gravit ator the only one in the world this remarkable being declares 1 I walk over the ground observe tile the atmosphere the apex of the earth and feel the specific gravity of the earth where there is a fissure in the earth the further language used by the mineral Gravit ator contains such words as these staking out the intersection and width of the specific gravity of tile the earth for the intersection and width of the vein and this measuring the width of the veins by the gravitated gravitation 2 and this eye sizing the by the elementary affinity there would be no use of quarreling with the modern science of eye sizing and 11 gravitated gravitation were it not for the circumstance that the mineral Gravit ator is evidently in need of financial support if we were in his place we would go forth boldly into the hills and gravitate the gravitation of a few hundred thousand tons ot of ore then we would print the facts about our discovery and our claim to the elementary affinity and distribute our prospectus among the clairvoyant parlors of 0 the united states we would sell enough stock in this manner to expose to the gaze of tile the guggenheims and other capitalists the gravitated ore bodies which our genius had brought to light strange how the genius for ore location by personal instinct has gone so long unrecognized and the only div ining rod which we know of possessing any claim to scientific validity is the magnetic needle as sometimes used for the location of iron ore but tile the magnetic needle can tell very little about the extent of the deposit if ever there shall arise a valid means of determining the location of massive bodies of other ores than those ol of iron it will be of little service unless it can afford some further determination of the size and the value of the deposits it is not conceivable that either gold or silver at a distance can convey the knowledge of its presence to a sensitive instrument even though we admit that such a thing may be possible in the case of bulky minerals like those of copper lead and zinc As for the personal mining Gravit ator we commend to him tile the suggestion that he set his genius to work upon the undiscovered mineral deposits of the west and run a race with the guggenheims tor for the mastery of this form of wealth |