| Show 110 Worlds 1 Biggest Cyanide C J Mill 1 i i panic O Cnri > Piitor lo + cJlllwl < Hio WomloiH oC i tho Now PIOUUHH ol Gold Hoclnolion 1t They Art KiwMienltlnf ttit CM hoJjclTtit loHtnaH Outfall > of lAt Uotht anillht Grwl Inc taae of 119JII f t here GtJit I < HtJ imetllif Uuul He tioalh ftfrirai Minn a JHant V me OimfariiHt t > iWMi CM Hfhxt of Ht JuiltJ Mntlm Gold Qtt Ijula aid Iow Ut I OtniJf I > otns AriiiV 01 o t lrohnr Roth and CMIt Motl Tma of Costly Uwtl cud Krnl Tanks G Mim Mnibltlt CfjiMtof IWinn H mJ II Jfl ill VitJin tixlratllxt GoU how Kvtk aJ Jut i orvjrfM ilK Vr TInt tlfttlw I a ul cn reM mtfn > t of lb It MM IJEM July ate llyl It GIN with this r rl letter s tcfta describing de-scribing the revo lullni bkh U I going on lu Ills airing region of 1 tho West Iui Ing the pott three month I have traveled sclera I cuml mites In the cocky Mountain rare allot will prospectors It li mated Ihit row men ere climbing out tho hills and canon 01 California I ana and Nevada That are hun c i ol prospectors going carefully err the old mining region ol 1 Colorado J J m lUh It I now being developed a It gold region ulucli ball Lake City en claim will produce more than ugh lo pay ol the national debt hr gold now belnr mined at Cripple re k Is enormous In < Uinll nnd hero other ramp In Colorado which are ring out fortunes In gold bearing t Tim new ptocerses of gold re lion lute changed almot entirely to character or go d mining mid wllh I he next few years 11 i ho whole r world h 1 beieprutpectcdfor gold 0111 CVCat IIIIea CIt C-It Is I hard lo realm mat gold 1 Is one I the I moil c mnion of metal but ti It a act Golil In to be bound In ally etery pail cl Iho I early but Inlh Flu lIe coil of reduction Is l been 10 real and llhu quantity of gold to tnnll I hat In only a law pluces could It bu IInul nt a prclit Golu exlitt < In Ilia ales t f the ia and the chemist w hon ho-n Intent a method ol getting il e gold 1 lilt ul tie trial lull Iko I Ill line aria 11 I Le Anuts MO lull ol gold Central America bat hundreds ul a1 sane ontd miriM fliuold clumps 1 oruaste If I the nlaea which toe bpanUrdt vurked In Mexico will now lie put hreunli l the I new prucemcs lor Lilling rt 1 i l it rl C ut the go it amluiu result Mill be lora lor-a let I there Is a wit quantity ol low ado gold in the ristein lull ol the Jiilltd Malts From 1 Nova Scull 10 5 iroiyli mi 0 gull I streak uhleh bus nl ilieieiit pu I IIIIIIJ for mining Mug 1 its lute been conlly < cult > i in Nut ski til worth faun and tau year nug ci lAS Icunnu Cruwloul Cuiimy N which weighed eight pound fivu unccl All < ji eiir Kuld up urtll slay iamb fun Marsh Carolina and Him ate lung Lora gold mines In tilllerciu are ul 1 G ortli I Hurt Is I a uhlta rata nr Uushitclon I C which 11 1 Ills l mid pay ft id a tun mill wlihtu P tact year IU d UII1 have bunt utltd Iu 0 olUall way or Ihe national q lIIJI 11e lot old trio III New llan p hire whleli m IhJ7 ylcleleJ to I U and gull hit been mined on julu lan Isand wilill averaged 14 oo lot I here it golu 1 In Uhiu ami our u unuln ul Hie Uct hale I II la I be I ti unclrcds I ul unditcutered gold n i tem In lire region beiuctn Iba e CKIIS and the tacit I su lar has been toduceu I luely niuu per cent ol nil u u le M t Id of the Untied Males and Mlh I err u 11I10 1 > mines hate been dneovcred old alt trdot led tvlihh I I cm nuw bet t orkeu by Hie 1 new processes al a l roll cascara i valuable gold I mines I I in I llm otatu ol iitlilniloii and llm Bands ol Ito Pacific Oce in from lOIlt 1 bouud to Mtuu i Ilandi 1 contain guld dual and n stna places Imy urn now being 1 armed by turn 1 here Is I probably 1 > u true anuu l ul cold in llriiisn Col uml li 110 liKunlninH of which have not Con prtipected The Treadwull I miiiu i Alaska Its anoiitUI ol more than n ao r0 worth 01 1 told Thl gull Is coon a low Irno that soma years ago 1 one would have thought ul trying loin lo-in it I lu uveiMja ls I between < i SO u fj 00 per Ion and slid ul ihctci low r iuio itgtvfi the proprietor too peru I < per-u l loht laic I toll ol iliu iJnkutas It a claw grade and there are hundreds n hundreds ul square miles In Cal 0 o which contain low grade ore on loads ul ruek picked up I on the tea g beige about Cripple Crick have I ard I fat per ton and uld mines Ib i u lint I u been abandoned are by tho to i oceises mw ben g woikeei a r a Till OOLDLN boa 010 ran hater tell where gold llo I until J ill i id It IRS the old mlncni mid the IMI clog which It I now belnn thou Oil 1 cc1ul In all probability minis tootling i I the ilchiit of ore as well as t II 6 to linnet 1 ile the I Golden I mine Inch tow produced Ruts sly 10 thirty thoiuand dollars n nt mId ban been domj 60 lor lour h t iins It ua located about < I Irs ogo worked for n 111110 Ind 1 It was then sold 111 t I ked tan I gave it up on a 1 lien a man named hails ul u u i the peculiar urea of the hilt i ecu took an option on lle pmr > or f 15coo Ha app kd new IC HS 10 the rtduction ol h s orl OJ > hrtt car load nclled lnn the rm 01 the bond On the strength a adbh u dtucd II al ar load ho wai ulluod iiucii a i i he propLily Hut ha could all < o j out and r nude 55 J on the It i unit im minini and scon t Koln I tcln That in ne hat now hares and I am told II at It has paid aoiitf llawyradetorcn J j 1 I r a ft ucllon I I ol the luw I taile ores t a n revolution the gold pio pct nit world lzh Incres I 11 dn1y rrmtus The 1 South I All lean ton Ora la a large extent I low grade 4 piouuced t 0000000 worlli o I cold last I I > ear and toeoo neo worth of I II s umli late teen b l 181 t had II not Ixen for the new process of getting oat gold lv he I use of cyanide of pot snuni rive mines were opened Irtl In 183 r Up to thfTlnt ol hit I musr > ihev had pmloctd about fiSooooooo I worth ul pod and Ham 1 iliun Smllj the great InglUh mining engineer i it miles that there h I mor I than n billion and n hill do lul wools of told In the alieady known liedi ol 1 1 tediI South Alrkn I ttt la be mined The AuMrilan mines I are turning out great iiuanlitlei ol gold I and In iSoi both Africa and Australia were ahead of in In hold ptoiluctlon Ills I only lately that ue hatugoit n these new prorMsen nt work upon our eras but last year ne leg ned our place as the chief gold producing country n I the world In IS9 we led both Alrlcn and Australia by hoer than flooooooo our gold product Ian I year amounting lo 550000 oas Colorado nlor < i had ml Inciease in 11195 over is product of 1894 of tow ocu and It land today as the greatest void state of the Union It produced l year fiHuooouj worth of gold or three millions more Inn i California and Colorado melt tell me Iliit they expect to gel at tcatt f Jiuuuooo Wollli of go d nut ul the mountain Ihe picsent year There will be an enormous Increase In the gold product ol Utah tnl VIa and California which produced Jn 000000 worth of gold In I 91 will piouuie more In sIll AliOKCthtr in If95 the wuill produced nearly Jjcoocowo worth ol kolil This Is a 1 Healer amount than hat eU been mined In anyone year It Ia I equal 10 Iho retire product ol any teem lean up lo iMo and if he I preterit pret-erit rallo of Iniieiue LUH on ue shall I in nw bateau annual product i ol rl fio 000000 and Ihe world clock will betwein this time and tint hate been Increased by more than Jicoii oo 1100 Theo figures are lnconciit ahlt but they are luundtd on lad and Tbey represent a revolution broulu about Imp I a combination of new diuot cries In natural resources and new intention ai applied lo nunlnguhlch will rctolullon Ice l the financial tttem ul Ilia world Till Mitt CIIXAI IRUCtMLII Hut let me lei you somilhlng ol these cheap nielhodt which have been lately Inventeil l for getting I cut told You lh line nil heard ol placer I mining or the wasting of gold grain nuggets or duit out of the beds of rlvcr > nd the sides of monnlaiiu The filet mining done uas of this kind and until late I > nine lertln of all the cold ol the tioild was gotten out In lhl lea An enormous nuinllty I was Hun i > reduced by crushing the I rock and inieltm II Hilt houcicr Is avery I a-very expensive process coding 14 and upward tu the ton of rock anal ire uhlch does not contain more than fa pir Ion seldom pays the cost of smell log a lly the new piocetses If there Ito f 10 worth of gold In a Ion of rock ii cm I i e notion out wllh a profit Then are Immense ore bodies near Silt lain I Ltv I which cm be profitably mined for > a 50 n Ion and here I Is one r Tau Here where the cost of reduction u nut i more I than 73 cents I am told Hut mills aic now being put up In Parke county Col 1 uhlch will treat ore lor 7S cents per ton and sate jH per cent nl the gold and more than hall a million ol the gold which would hue bona united has been gotten out of Cripple reek rock by the oanide mill which I describe further on l Then there Itthechlorlna I lion process by uhlch cents kind of I ere are treated ttlth chcmlcali and gates and out ul them are finally I liken ljnoli I ol pure gold 1 here I lathe la-the Lruinliutlon proccts eontca hat similar and a method Its I lately been Interned in Germany for getting Ihe gold out of the rod by ueclncit I UIIAT CVAMOK 18 I The most Important process however I li the extraction of the gold by means ol c > anlde of lotatnlum Ctanlda ol i3n polaitluin 1 U a chemical which loaks for I all Iho world Ilka alum It now costs Iron thlrlv lo hilly cents per pound II I oli 111 it madu tl r the hoof horns and refuse I ol cattle and It U I deadly hobo Il hat however a uondeilul alhnily for I gold and when mixid ttlth water mid applied lo llm ore In a arum 1 way it will tuck all r ol the gold out of Ihe I rock lhl < process of extraction WH I Intcnlel I hy tutu Hcolchnien and l a first null l was put up In Auitrslia In 1889 Then IIU rwm up In boulli Africa and In 1X9 tho lit Canlda mill of the United Slates was ended InJIouldtr county Colorado Ihere I nru now moro titan fully cyanide plants In bouth I Alica lint nro ttveniyfour In Am IrnlasU acd I toinathlng like twenty in dilkicnt pun of tlm United Slates with n number of others going up allover all-over the florid flu UOBLUS KKinctir cvNIDU IIIUL The bljiieit and moil perfect of all afar a-far erected l Is Ut tint lof Ihe Metallic I IIeo duulon Works near loreuce 1 which I visited Ihe outer day Into this mill aro poured car loads of what looks like cobble stones railroad ballast or broken granile and out ul II very month as a recoil comet n brick of solid olduorlh I fjocoa Now works are now icing 1 adued and by I > the time this letter is published lll uill ha lour limes at large uO 1110 now lilt ill then bu able to re ducc 400 Ions ol gold 1 ore n day and itippoiln the rock lo hate only one foU j lrli rl rr ounce ol gold to thu ton Its output out-put tt ill be it the rate of ftn ooo perdiy or about fi000000 worm oltold per year Tho I unrk arc tlluitcd on the cdjo of Ihe Mucky mourn uni nllhln lieu miles ol the oil tovtn of Florence 11 ev look much like an Immense wheat elcvuoror rudely built Ieniuylvania barns but they contain the hncst ma chlnciy of tuir 1lnd I In the world They tucks per cwnt ol the gold out of Ihe rock which passes through them uhtieas ow mills of South Africa Ills said oro able to live only 60 to 83 per I cent These mlllt use petrnleuii as loch and Ihe loretve I Cripple f Creek LrpC rnllroed brings the Cripple Creek ore tlliectl to 101 A TKIr Tllao OIl THE MILL Let us nuw take n train lash I of gold bearing rock and follow il through thii great mil low I the gold l U gotten out of IC mine I will uttulDr 1 In another letter Uur freight cars are filled with the ore II H I a mixture of broken granlu porphyry snit ullur stones ul l dmertnt colon there Is travel In it i It contains dirl t and It Is I fur all the teoild like a pile i ol Lriiken up rock mixed with tne refuse of a quarry ot rotten granite There It I 110 sign of gold anywhere You cn tike up a Ce of rock from any part of the car II oed nnd examine It through a micros cop and y ju will not see a glint ol yellow or n > tUi K which to your eyes would Indicate Md Slll that n > ck Mill avenge a hall an ounce of cold 10 I the ton In those car hoods one atom In every 48roo Is I gold but Ills atom Is I evenly mixed throughout the whole and the qucilon Is I to get it out I rOIlTI liinT The oiipMintendcnt of the works lells I us this as we tide on Ihe cars up to I the mill W earc cairlnl by I th < man of an engine on a trestle work Hack which I mdt the ore at the t p I of the mill lor Ihe rock n l carried from one level I to another by meant of gratify We lookdown look-down at the I load I as we go up There eW speck ol Hones the she ot the head ol a pin and there are Immense boulders weighing hundreds ol pounds Al I IhK mit be crushed lo puwdtr before > be-fore it can bo wnrked The i ar stops at the top aid the ore it I 10alo1 1 Into what looks like a gigantic tollee mill Ihe top ol Inch Is as big around as a hogshead As the rock alls I Into It the mm Miles the stones In lit gnat II Heel I teeth and grinds them tu pieces I imt hear them apparently groan as they are crushed and you ihudder at the thought ol getting Into she jaws ol the muchiii flr WIII ellgr ety This mill guilds the ore to the tlie 1 ol a walnut Another takes and reduces it lo pieces Ihe site 1 ol a pc1 and it it than ready lor the dryer Every 1 molecule of motttureinuil betaken be-taken out of the ore before It can bu giound lo powder This it I done by lalIn I through enormous elect tubes aI ihe length ol an ordinary railroad base I n em coach and as big round as a hrl IKI flour barrel = Through I them lubes II rotes ol gas continually blow They l wihofI are I Inclined l at ouch an angle that the on going In at the lop as they revolve rolls toly down to Ihe hollow As II roll It lla this fiery bath and the he at takes ill the moisture out ol Ihe rock then an elevator ol Iron bucketi much ItkI thai uhlch catties wheat up In n Hour mill carries the ore to the top cl I the walks and III Is emptied l In steel crushers winch grind it ID powder 1110 ono lhlel we saw b fore at cu bin tunes and broken rock has now become be-come a Hour It lush like duo and II U compotiil ol millions of gram but each ul JP those grins contains an Infinite Infin-ite tinul quantity ol golf and this coil Iy ion Is worth n lonune the rock sea hard and rough ThO I duit It I so salt and fine that yuu can rub II to and Iro In jour hands ullhotil scratching Iho skin and It looks much like pow ilercd umlcc tone It hat lion ever no churn of gold and were lion the road you would ilrlvo your cairlagi through without thinking noi nrN MISII The dust Is tow Trudy for Us cyanide bath It It loaded Into cart and uneeled Into what miht to called the bathroom bath-room this 1 It I an Immense room filled with circular tanks iliad ol steel Mach > tank Is I about thirty legit in dlameler and as high as your ttalst 1h will hold too toni ut this Hjwdeied dust Ilw cars run along a little railroad uhlch heads from one tank lo another and Irom I which Hit dust is dumped luto the tanks flier tho cyanide l solution is iniroduti I Iti means of pipes 1110 1 to ml in u a Ih ud as clear as crystal li looks like water but it is tooter containing tho pol lonous cyanide of potassium It takes about one pound of Ills cyanide tu get fr J II r antis the 1 gold out ol each I ton at ore aiufas the lull lUll ihioiigh the i usl Uie mix I lure looks for all Ills old 110 1 brottn liuiih It is uiuih bUIIII Is mush mixed wllh told 1 Now by the admity which the C IInlue tI pvlistium Im lor gold at the solution run i through the sandy dull the gold leaves the earth and mclis and assume the fuiniol a llijuld and I ccoines u port ol the solution It is I Just at thcujh you hid n lot tl salt or sugar mlxtd leapt I dm nd you I should put water on tha dirt the salt and sugar wtuld be ditwlted and p > lulu noIr no-Ir Well data Is I Iho u ay ihe gold does with this mixture ol eyamde ol pu 1053101 I and water It labssonto llmr however fur tha solution to soik all of 1 the gold out of the sand nlldili Is leis lor literal days upon it At thin end ul this time Ihe gold has all cone Into this hulullon and you have Ibis lluid made upcl later and gold and cyanide floating float-ing around through the liuiih rim olullon Is itill as clear as cryital and thera U no SILII ol lt3s Mow each ol these uninenio tanks has hasittobuiiom JailtoltolJ inatcrlil tliloiijiii whuh Uiu uater cannot pass and she other is I ul cant as When tho dust Is Tint put m tho bottom 1 It I double I uilh the solid bottom beneath Alter the liquid has been long enough on the mush the Solid bottom Is taken away nnd the solution conulnh g the gold drain out through the canvas and is carried away leaving almost nothing but the dirt bemud One l In1 IP tank ul dun at the estimate ol 1 ul half an ounce ol gold I to the ton contains a then sand dollart worth ol gold Of Hill 970 tvonh has gone Into the ttater leaving a uaitu 01 only IJ In one bun Bled ton ol ore GOLD FROM ttATKK Wo have now net oral hogsheads of golden wider U looks like common lotion It Is as clear as crystal nnd wi10 It In a pitcher you might drink It by mistake WI know however that it has thai f9o worth ol gold In II owl Iho question ii how to gel II out If It uen all OllUllar wo might evaporate the water and tutu residue at the bottom w aUld be a part of the Sugar and salt within il llm IIJ tt U nut 1 to rb gotten out In that ttay Is taken Iron the water much en tho tame principle at that by which It I hat been exir ictid Irani the rock Cold at It oii > t < in Iho cyai ide solution has u pecu Ur alfimly fur nine II Ihcru Is mi 01001 tl l also next to one ol three molecules 01 Iohl It will leave the cyanide water and nick lo the line Hut rune is expensive and n large surface u needed to aihcr all these lilllJ molecule of gold Tile surface sur-face It gotten by liatln the z nc reIn pared re-In circular disks uf tha sue of a dinner plate and about as thick as the head of a pin These by means of a tithe are turned Into fine shavings much like the excelsior iced for pack log dill ea I Ihii me exec 1 for li now Iut into si 101 1 t its about eighteen eel i onginl i I fir i fiet to tie and two lee deep Toone I tats hate partitions 1 tin slog Ihniu1 them and etch nrnpnrt mentis loosely fiileil will this tine tx nUiur Nuw the cyanide wlullon with its gold In II Is I turned into tlw val std so arranged that It will slowly II it about through tae fine eictlilor A the kO len w iler washes the x lie shave Ings the atoms ot gold i leaven Ibo aster and slick to Ihe t sine until at list I over bit 1 ul uater I lui given up its gold IJr a aloe under its Influence gradually tun s 110111 a ltlgnt I litter In a itllty yillu It grown heavier and Meatier tltli ton i golden load until It hat nt loll gathered all the gold The solution it 1111 1 drawn onUIIIUIIII holes In the boll l ol the tat and sirengthciitKl > IIIJI in order I lo be used lo gather more guld Thc tine and gold is put Into a Im luce mid I smelted and alter a short lime the result re-sult It a brick ul tolld gold peter than that which In I used far wedding rings or gold v n eagles C i CMt lru |
