Show ATTENTION ATT eltion TURNING TUR NINfi TO QUEST FOR GOLD salt tako city nov 24 alth tho the decrease in fix tho value of 0 silver and tho the base babo metals tho the consequent paralysis 0 of the mining industry ot of utah many mining mon mon man 0 of tho old school of 0 take a chanco chance mining as well as modern mining engineers have aured their attention to tho quest of gold much material of interest to would be gold seekers Is contained in a paper prepared by prof arthur L crawford and frank J 0 of tho university of utah and given last saturday at the autumn meeting of 0 tho the utah academy of science nt at tho brigham young university numerous old c y a n I 1 d 0 dumps throughout the state aro are frequently thought to contain gold but as yet an economical moans means of recovering the precious pre cloua metal from tho the dumps has not boon been found desoito repeated investigations in the of the university of utah investigators carried on chiefly in tho the camp floyd mining r dla ds erict of county it was shown that much of tho the gold in these aban boned lumps dumps la Is present in tho the form of soluble cranides cyanides cyan cy anides ldoa concentrated con by the ho partially decayed or carbonized brush and plants burled beneath the dumps samples at the bottom ot of the dump were found to contain a much higher gold content than those taken from near tho the top roots in tho soil eoll bae b were assayed mul and found to carry gold properties valued up to nai as high as aa 65 por per ton what had taken place according to the report was that tho the gold hod been absorbed by the roots seventeen university of utah pro and graduate students atudo took part in tho the two day meeting of the academy along with many contributors from doth both utah state college and Bring hanx young university tho the academy has hag outlined a series of radio talks talk to bo be over oven station in salt lake city every sunday morning until may 14 1933 |