Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-23 | Page 14 | Knows All About Gold

SALT LAKE SKETCHES Knows ws All About Gold Assayer Finds Pleasure in Each New Test for Precious Yellow Metal Gold the precious yellow metal for which men inca and women have suffered sacrificed and worked years untold is no stranger to Charles S S. S Cow Cow- an But Mr Cowan a admits his acquaintance tance with the magic material has always always al at- ways been in rather limited quan quan- titles I For or Mr Cowan Is an n assayer and nd has worked at his chosen profession at ICO South West Temple street sin since e 1906 To him nave have come in those thos 27 years hundreds of persons with hopeful hopeful hopeful hope hope- ful hearts always believing that this time Ive I've got it Sometimes they have Mr Cowan relates For Instance an ore sample he assayed last week ran 95 ounces of pure gold to the ton But to be bc able to give such joyful joy joy- cur ful news is not the run of the mill usually he must dash hopes with a shake of his head No gold Fools Fool's gold Or in such minute quantities as 10 cents a tonOf ton Of late since the world is so stirred about gold his business has picked up somewhat As A. in the days of ot 49 everyone's looking for it Quite a few are arc finding it We haven't found all the gold Inthe Inthe in inthe the world Mr Cowan says not by bya a long shot Theres There's plenty of or it lying under the ground S The process of assaying ores for gold golds goldis is s quite involved The ore is crushed then hen pulverized Next comes mixing with fluxes fluxes' including soda flour nour and borax Poured into a crucible crucible- the mixture is l- baked in an oven until yin fin a liquid form After it is poured into molds molds' the lead ead settles to the bottom in the form I of a button Combined with it is what silver or gold there may be Cleaned or of f all slag slig the b button is again heated and nd the lead absorbed The silver is then dissolved away with nitric acid and nd gold if it there is any is left in pure form furm orm I Mr Cow Cowan n putters happily around his lis oven crucibles crushers and 4 4 I IS S 4 S 'S SSt St 4 i j jS S S I S 55 S S 5 S L. L S SS S j i r 5 1 S S S S j r I Charles S. S Cowan I scales he likes the uncertainty the excitement excitement ex ex- ex that attends each assay His findings may mean a fortune or just another false hope Born in Ira Salt Lake in 1869 Mr Cowan Cow Cow- an was at one time a clerk in Auerbach's Auerbach's Auer Auer- bachs bach's store That was many years cirs ago He drifted into assaying worked In n that capacity for a number of large mining companies and finally opened his lis own shop He has one son and lives at K street I