Show W i QUEER FACTS ABOUT GOLD 1 I How tho 1icclouH Motnl IH HoliiK Ilonrdoil I in 11 j f JartMol tho NVorltl f Star rot NJ GOIJIll CV11JISPla Its Of ttlow t cliojetsl nimrim If AliA Cold it I > l GillfGOIJ10 II 17At 0ANUt 1rJu1 01tit 11OM it Um died Courts f I IIIJ i fir the oIYtt IIiIr istj Soposp IIJjNI NUlftltTIII fWMiv atild It here TMr CM Onti t mf i thilralltt Gold n ftUi lUtte Haler CnlitjCnlu Ctllnnt t di Mitel vf CkiHtoxJ tetnsl Forlmme i it oastoetnt llMrfaf ol Iki ItaJooi nil IIlA 1 j JHjiti mi IAI ItiitH Art rtntr t Vf Ill Utrlfi Sxtllly of lA < I httiem Mttil ccrrrICbIIH rra G Croor IWIi 1 Copleposibe1401 It < Allat DaNvielt Colorado Oct I4ih 1896 I r MET here the chief Amerl U tan gent of the Classic 10 II process for reducing gold The proceit Is patented and the agentt of the Stolen firm I t Swho ottn the patent ate now I 1 lo te sound In all the told legion of the world putlnc up milts The American t n71 tolil 1 me that lie had it imrb recently contracted for mills 1 In Montana and Nevada and I Q that a number ere Solve up Jr In Utah Colorado and Art fJ I I Ion a Itr nab county Utah the old 1 dump of cold mines are now being II worked over by meant ol cyanide and II I the time li to be done salth many of tile < I abandoned COld mines of It RICO late I t surprised it stories I daily hear I ai to the new development of our gold territory I The old I dlilrlcti ate being t I cr repraspected so and from the resides It li sofa lo lay that i I i I the belt rI our mining regions have not if i at 3et been touched The treat mountain t moun-tain chain nnnlng front Alaska lo Nicaragua Items to be an almot 1 unbroken i = broken mineral lIb Gold I and office i f ate found In the continuation ol the I chain In I South America and miners are I II working today at Interval all along Ihe western part of our hemisphere front the Yukon river even to Patagonia 1 I Ii COLD IN GAB AND VtATIR I The moil of the gold which fizz nude I the world rich In the pail baa come from I nugieti and train veins to large that IOU I i could ice them The Hood of the precloui metals which II l now beginning I to deluge the earth cornea from lnfnl I f teilmal particles 10 icattercd l through t the lock that not a gleam nor a glint of them can be defected by the naked eye I According to tome scientists this gold has been deposited In the rock In I the i I form of gas Age ago say they there I l was an eruption In I the bowels of tho t earth at which lime bilt gas mixed with cold rushed up through the veilica mules with gleat orco and leaked ill I way Into the poiouirock m which the I gild ll now being dbiJ It was by title I means tb the Illlle bitiol gold I were I dropped throughout the rock Ibe pie a clou particles I being ao small thai they I It could not be detected Many ol Ihe o U miners had no Idea of their existence I and theft extraction now It I only possible 4 by means ol the cyanide process I Here fl Ii Is plenty ol gold In tall water Scientist Scien-tist lay that sold ll generally dlfusc I In the Water ol the ocean and me lacutchtmils t thlllhu trI tr-I of the Iliitlh coast conialni one gram of gold l to every Ion of water 1110 I i I proportion is I ninth larger In Ihe Cleat I sail Lake and the nunwhu ran Invent I a cheap process ol gelling out Such gold 111 have alonuD 4 roans ix I wilicn OLD 11 tot Mi 01 I Few people have any Idea of file queer loims In which gold Mound 11 IJjuie Nature Is the most ttondrrlijlot 1 jewelers J slid the has decorated the f bosom of aid Mother Earth with gold In a thousand different shapes I saw a box of gold nu gets and crystals taken k from the Little t lotiesest mine I near Lead Mile Many ol them would haven ado I bejutliul I broocheawltboul itdrcoiallon tome appeared Isolated and others had been loin from the rock In the form ol I sheets and plates A cal dell oliu d luund in iistall Not lung ain II eie was ttouglit lo l the Philadelphia mint If four thousnd dollars orth of Atotrs I Inn gold It vaas nd up of little cod cry stAls ranging io Size rush that 01 1 a nurrowlal pCA I 10 that of file had of a 111I bold Is also lound In cubeaand I SRI sided crystals are common Some cl the gu d nuegeii 11011 lliu laUuinl mints are bId like mow 1 he LIUI lohmils list produced a great dealol wire Itr I bake teen bl a ol rock Irol I ripple Creek upon which when sub t Jetted la w intense heal me gold uould bubble QU And stand up like little gold pin head upon the dark alone liod In its nalmal sutc ls I usually asked with Silver The now Utali LOU deposit ro associated with aracnic In The A1ltur mine you find the yellow Isto In cunts lien with qu cklivvr Sell In cus America II is soulttfills mixed title hlmuth fUClK MININCI AND GOLD MIHTI lime I spent tome t me va hlug the placer mineit in unltitnl paiiiol file will Placer mining was tie clikl Biiuico of gold proUuciion in the days uf s r fullfr lfru 14 It Is sill careless on but file output I out-put I is much lesi than Inflict pasu Inc hid placer mints ul today are In bibellahete theeaiiti has lomelimei lu be dug up 1 in a Irrieu slate anl mtlt ed belore the gold can be extracted nlo I ii the case lu I time pans ol the Yukon liver mints Tile tact that there Is a gold placer li an idnce that there it i Loldbeinng rock ncr byand 1 nimeri ptetcud to tell flout the Cb1Yia1drniniers kold of tilt lacer his 10 the IItnI ur mo gold litAllbl rock IrlII uimli It torn II slit t old dust Is cry line ll It > ippotd to luve been 1 carrleil u lorg duwnc If Costae It li I ihuuht that i the lisl U not tar oiL Sonic i of i a first mining 01 Calllmnla wai ol toll scalel 1 whicH measured less than I Id ol n IIIeh1I lnKth and one IIIllIulcler III diameter IUcer miner ulllan find tl elr biggest nugtcii iu streams wlure the buu ders a 0 large V hero Ih Streams are tone Krntl file cold is generally nlall maid acaly The niz31 hugget dis ever covtted a Cable llhta 1 url lalin l at taken Lalavcfas out I county LAHOMIA I I It weighed Pounds andvi as worth more than 11430 195 A foond number rll lot other larce I not at were In t do Santa lon ranging el Its slue from icco upward In 1835 a luctel 11 tuitl wai Olicovered In b erra i unly California worth locwo and In 8500 mata ol quartz still gold was picked up In Tuolumne county which WAS worth f jooiu Outside Callfor ila Same ol the blrrrat lump ol gold discovered In the United States have come frtm the acnh North Carolina has pr KIuI l three nuggets ranging In Fis from i3l > poumli h 37 pounds and in Georg a ntira er ol big nucgeli have ben dhcoiered the largest ol hich weighed i37 pennyweights tilE UOHDIIIIVL AFHICAS MINI Through the mlollll irngineets ashilen I hive roelliTe In the wetland Inlor motion which list recently rome lo Hie director ol the mint at aldington lam I obit loglteinme facts ai to me mine of Africa which are making men a change In the gold product of the wot Id Thir gold in ties are a surprise lo geo luglin One fAmous man said Hut he muld have rattier expected lo find gold In Ih < lini 11 Scotland than In the Hand djXlr let ol South Africa Mr Ulllam Weston a leading minlor engineer 01 Criople Creek and a graduate ol the folt lt to at school ol 1 mines ot London tells me that hi believes that the bomh Ahlcan gold deposit originally consisted consist-ed ollhe bed ofas gitAt lakewhich having been dried up and solidified was by the action ol the cements Ice heaved up that It stood half on end The upper part jl this great gold dpolll Is I actissir mined but ai the region It I for row oh fo fO developed the faintest will have to I to deeper and deeper Into the earth a1 the cost will be much greater As III I the prospect of an enormous quantity ol gold train South Africa ale eicellei Hamilton t < mlth whuli perhaps one nl I the best mlniER engineers file world iml who was here not long ago as Ihe gent for the Kolhchlldi look up their Americas Inveatmenti estimates that the Kind gold district ol Africa will produce alilllun I andaquiilerdollai worth of gold lie lays that gold has been fjund there AS fit doses In the I earth at 2500 feet and thai lleilsliln all probability lo a depth of 6000 11 Much of Hit mining I will have 10 be done at this depth an I according lo hit estimate It would lake about f ouo ooo lu equip a mine woiklng at a depth of jogokel 1 1 He expects Ilie product me African mints lo exceed foooo oao a > tar by Ilia close of the century and he believes I that they will be profi able for lease lo come Today all of the African mines must be economically managed In order for them to pay dlvi r clouds A great part of the gold has togo to-go back Into the mine In the shape ol machinery and labor and up to the prevent onlyabout one fi tit or the toll I oJIlhf Fol gotten out In has been cear pecifit There are now employ lllIlhlo African toM district I J < oo while men and yxoo black Wagei are low and everything U done on the largest and moil ecuriond Cal scale Mix INII IN I 1nULU A number ol new cyanide mill isto being put up In Au mall Im 1 told thai new mine Sea being disco Seed Indifferent In-different llurll ol that country and a cccnt report to our director ol the mint tales that The Australian full rJItl tl have lurdly been icratched I Some of the but mines of today are Its InV I In-V est Australia In a district where there h little water In the Cool gardie gold legion lor I Instance Mater Sometimes L b1fa11ollilghos f h Jiingi ai high aa 15 centi Gallon as there are nu great quantities tf water Ithln three hundred miles of the cold I field rtieie U a great gold starlit I thli dltlilcl II 1 was discovered by to i unj men a ho found a fOlly live ounce jgstl aticUng out of a muunia 01 cluu 1 hey took a bag of nuggets ulf ol a tingle claim and came back to little camp loaded with gold The Mercur mining dlitilct louth of Salt Like to I alto ailecteil by the lack of water bu this I has been remedied by forcing wale over the muur taint front a ttieam Oil The othhle Ilia parties who own the water weeks havea ortuneln them Water in fact coil ao much In Mercu that the Mills using It 1 do not allow the sitting to coupe but run It off Into pipe up the mountain As ilia team urine lie cold pipe it 1 condemn and lion tuck au thai it can bn used again HOW TilE IIIn005 ASK lIoUDt 1 GOLD An enormous amount ol Ihe gold 01 Ihe world la I locked up In India Due Ing a visit lo that country a few years ago found I that cold hall gone out of circulation Tb people becluel mi egably poor but they had quauililei of Jewelry Gilia drtd fit cutton olltn wur gold and silver bracelet and anlets and many a barefooted girl had fold rings and gold belli on her race Ior age the Lal Indiana have bee owrtmed They have nut dared to t loan I their I money for fear they Moul I d i love It I and I lliy have preieired lo put it I Into ornaments This cuiium prevail today ct en Ihou2h there li flow notice the tPngluh tecuilty ol property Among chief huadcri me Indian rejects who Weer the < must peohe Of jewelry I law many cold rings set with precious stones worth a ihousan I dollars and upward and I found gold chains fur tale I etciywhere Sir 1 David art out esimuied the amount of the gold hoarded In India staling Die half cei tuiy previous lo 11145 at J6jo000000 Ibis wa the accumulai on 01 only fifty LUIS llecitlnttted Hut Soouoocao wurlh ol si verwat hoarded in this time vid stairs that neatly all m I me gold and 11scrullicti came Into India In ittnrii for In exports wai thus Laps The lllu d > o bulb but little Irom oilier countries Me live on lice or coarse grains A cursors tat In most cases lams IJIK iloUilug I l1 the money he gets hu kecpi and if title hoarding It lo con tinut it li I certain that a great past of Ihe gold will eventually absorbed by the Vast Intltui rue nghli 1 I hate realized I inn t lur a long time They I have at Icpicd lu lemcdy It but In vain About ten yeari ago they tried to get the hoarded gold and silver Into 1 circulation circula-tion by vllermc high rate ol Interest I fur money but the natives would not respond f1licte I are about juicoo native bankers In India whu t ai to tile peasant but the moil of their business I 000 II done I In kind the money lender ad YAM It U pallets train Wityll the unJet UIIIa that he hall tective me much back when she crop is I harvested TilE tKKAllRMOr TUB RAIAIII The eat fill of the native prlncei ot In India It i known only lo 1 themseltei A recent report from an Kngliih officer In the Indian t it office shows that one alive pat inr list I been noting away guld p-at U e lAtf b f Into two hundred to nre < i han tro1 I Ihouiand doll 141 a year II e bucn gtH mohuti a coin worth bout I Miih lilt lilvrr i rupees and Iull tlie g < Id In a front vault in hli lAlJce One there Inlays t and lilost to liculatlon Not long ago two native I prilicel died In Indiana each leaving hIt h-It supposed about j60ooooo Sy tint 01poine of Iheie pmcei vilics had fill twenty millions tlored up in his vaults biiinwed from Ihe I gotetnmenl rf India lomethlng like Jl xooo lo rrrn Ill hr t carry all his club meet lie prefer red to pay Interest 1 ht to going back on hli I pii lie and when I he was asked If he coJld pay hli loan on demtnd he replied Vica and thai they mizit call for II tIny tI-ny time Another sold hoard was discovered ntlong ago upon Ihe I death ol 1 the I Idhfoacl 1url 1 utdo an llol wai opened upon Ihe death ol the Instiller J jih It consisted ol teven norm filled with gold and rilver and pieciout Stories Three ol the rooms were locked and the doors bricked up One room 48 let lint 14 I leI wide anj Ij leet high wal lilted with toll plAtes I and cap 1 gold and silver or aments and precious tlonca In nearly all of the rooms vaults weie lounil r containing 1 money and In one vull thU WIt ten thousand gold enthuse All of tie vaul i were 10 protected Hut It was not possible fir the government find out exactly how muci they held and even the exact number ol the vault Ii I not know Tells treasure U I now In the hand of thenutur jllia descendant Tilt COLD or CHINA Therelundoubtedly a vast amount of gold In China there I are mines In dlllercnt tl pint of the empire and IZ great deal ol gold It I brought down every tear front Siberia It contrasts lekinzandli there melted don Itu snisll ban nl about the ill J ot the little cakes Lnonas lady fingers It ll I almost 1 al-most pure often running Over twenty karats In fineness un7n cast In this I mall shape In order that It may be hoarded and tell pissed from hand lu hand The olhclali I who In many easel make fortunes out of their offices buy these gold ban and secret Ihem They da not dare lo put their money Into the g II J banks II lar fear that I their brother officials I may discover their wealth and con cale It The result Is Hut such gold hart will bring two per cent more In Peking than they wilt In bbanghal Mere arc astir to be mole than too placeIn China where gold U I found In Mongolia there are a number of mines and In I the Southwestern put of the empire there are gold working which ate loo feet deep Tin Chinese cannot understand the tall ol silver I was often asked ai lo It during my stay 1 In I the country two yean ago Ihe Chinese many times pulllcg to me this question In their queer pigeon Ucglisui d Evilloi > What for nuke gold 10 dcaiM I they did not ipeak ol tie fall of silver but bf the l lie ol gold At that time Silver wai Just about t allow as It ll now I carried my money In drafts on New York and utuAlly received about jigis lot bliver for each too 01 Amncn money cashed 1 i IDLblN OLD OIiOU I lee from the Japanese newipapen hat there li tome possibility 1 ol that country eitabliihlng a cold bal If hit scheme It I carried out Japan will hate lo get In gold from other countries ruodlo as III own tolucuon li less thin I a million mil-lion ol dollars a > tar hi gold mints worked by Japanese laborer who west shoes or sandals ol straw this soles ol which are about at thick ai your little lit-tle fingers These Sandals wear out very quickly and the laborer then throw them away During my Hay In Japan 1 heard 01 ln a queer gold speculation 11 tion in connection l with these old shoes A man living near the mints had for yeari collected Ihe old shoes lie could h1 and tored them away Alter along a-long time lie burned them to eishirs and Ianned the result ctUlna a large amount of gold from them Tho story vas told lor truth but like many oriental statements It sounds rather fishy COaiAl ttONDEKIlL GOLD rialDI n1 great part ot the gold ol both Japan and China cornel from Cores ihe Coiean mines are uld to be very rich Corea ll I mountainous and nearly all of lit mountain contain I minerals Dating my visit to the country eight yean ago rr We Il t our American minister told me that be believed the gold product amounted lo CLOOOODO a year alfOr Clarence urcaihouie Ilie American foreign ad I vtser lu the king described the mints ai very valuable and foreign merchants hud me quill ul gold dust and little nuggets which had been brought lu inin by the people bo lar nearly all of the gold gotten out ol Costa has come from placer washings There are a few quirts mines but these are oiLed In me crudest ol way i The loose rock ll I pried out with picks or ciowbait hen such meant fall a fire ll built upon up-on the rock and II lIfir It hot itt 1d water li I thrown upon U lo crack ll Aller Hie ore li gotten out It li I ciuihed between two alone the under stone be ing fat and the upper one somewhat round to that ll can be rolled backward back-ward and lord over the ore crushing It After ll it crushed the metal is saved lII hand panning N pumps are used and Wasting pow der and d scant practically unknon There la I no quicksilver 10 gather the gold and in all probability the molt of ll toes to wane The mints aie the properly ol the king rortlt kinf tgt cgly but hose a who work them undoubtedly Steal t a great part of Ihe product A numl er of foreigners are flow utlnglu gel possession ol the mints and hhin a frw years they will probably be owned by Logllsh Americani and Russians TIVAta CA411 |