Show com claim staked on an wooden riold gofd tiold mine in iowa town TORT FORT MADISON la Is A chicago metal reclining rellnlng reflining company ha bas staked out a 20000 claim on a wooden gold mine minis in the town of fort madison it offered that amount for the right to rip up some 10000 square feet of old factory flooring at the sheaffer pen company plant when the cold old nibs department moves into a new factory addition now under construction the T it e prospector prospectors figure the old flooring will be worth that thal and more in li it karat gold dust and chips that have been ground into the boards through more than 30 years of shaping gold pen points another reason they expect it to pan out ouirl Is that the floor also should yield some smitm bimium smium a super hard metal that is used on the very tips ot of better pens and actually Is eight tight or nine times as us expensive as gold the pen company takes elaborate precaution li to prevent day by day loss of gold all aprons worn by workers to in gold are laundered on the premises the wash water settled out and the settlings smelled smelted smeitk smelt ed along with floor sweepings and the dust from all the gold grinding and polishing machines AH all told sheaffer beef figures these measures reclaim about 100000 100.000 worth of gold sold each year that otherwise would vanlul vanlsl vanisli down the drain or into the dustbin dustbla dustbim |