| Show Proves to 10 Iu 0 l RegardIng the recently platinum discovery ver In Arizona f V make Blake director ot of the tho Arizona School of Stifles ha line the following to say The announcement II a few tew months ago of the tho discovery ot of great deposits ot of platinum In the region ot of Cataract canyon on the Colorado beyond I llamas IIams was hailed halle with delight by all who the groat Industrial value lIlue or of this and especially by the School of MInes arid the territorial g gO To fo be able to add to the III readY already Ion long I lIt list ot of metals anti for which Arizona Is noted was wal deemed ot of great t scientific Interest as well as Industrially and commer daily important nul when samples for assay for the value alue In Platinum began to arrIve nt at the School of Mines from the new itea In which locutions locution Were being leIng made mado for deposits and platinum could not be found In the samples rao doubts and rears fears were vare added to 10 by the thenet net that the occurrence ot of aluminum aluminium was also claimed In some Instances the tho required b by the sender endor of samples les to report the amount of not platinum but ot of aluminum All As aluminum Is II the metallic base of or cIa clay and ma may be found In nil ull substances containing even enn evenin In common bricks and adobes It tip ap most probable that the tots tori ivero tOlla to say tue least mistaken and spending their money uselessly A protest and warning wall vau therefore is II issued sued lIuNI and printed In the dully dally papers stating that the samples received did not contaIn platinum The Tho accuracy ot of this determination having been questioned In the platinum region and journal having lent credence to the discoveries on an effort was WAIl made to secure more sam pIes and positive evidence ot of the otiS or currence or nonoccurrence of this metal meta Several later sam samples les were secured and aud an exhaustive chemical examina examination tion proved them to bo without a trace of viaticum |
