Show one of the interesting features of the street parade at tonopah To nevada on the occasion of the completion of the tonopah railroad to that place was a wagon drawn by twenty eight mules the wagon being loaded with thirty tons of ore from the ridge and curtis lease on the jumbo lo 10 lode de at goldfield the value of the ore being over this was a sight worth se seeing eing and shows that some people can make money in mining an exchange gives the following method for testing cinnabar cinn ibar ores A simple manner of testing ore tor for cinnabar or mercury is by testing a quantity of ore by mixing it with lime and placing the mixture in a jong stem clay pipe covering the top of the alpe with wet clay place the pipe in a fire and cover it with coals the stem dipping lifto into a vessel of water if there is mercur mercury y in the ore it will volatilize and condense in the stem of the pipe and drop into the water vater as metallic mercury carbonate of soda is as good a mixer as lime |