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Show Sells Ore to Owner. The following incident happened to a "practical" miner, who has H made his mino and stake, and ia ql still ul the game. He had a group of claims about a mllo from a proa- IH pect that was producing ore and his jH persistency was finally rewarded by finding colors on thcsurfaco, after "M which he secured capital which en- f ablcd him to sink and cross-cut to jJ tho main shoot, from which he H shipped a car a day of $100 ore, un- jl til a mill was finally erected, which ll ia- still running, says a writer for jH The Engineering and Mining Jour- ''1 nal. One of the ore haulers ono '-'H evening, after leaving the corral, f entered tho restaurant, and I saw 'H him hand a friend, "Slim,"' a specl- ' '"H men, about three inches square ano fl one-half to one inch thick, that hacjl half of one fiat side streaked wlthj kI gold, the metal having been apparf- ijl ently deposited in a crevice and ex- jf posed when the rock was broken jJ With it he showed the broken ex4 jH tension which was considerably! larger, tho ends of the two fitting V jH perfectly. He wanted $20 for the H larger one, which he retained. About a week Inter ho sold this for ;H ?1G to a Denver mining man, who ;H placed li in his prlvato collection at M home. He gave me permission to iH examine It tho following day,' and lH I soon saw tho joke. Tho rock was especially fitted for the work, if and had been skillfully painted with banana oil and picture-frame gilt. The mine owner producing the ore hauled was tipped off that somo H nlco specimens were being found, H and when he saw the one Slim hnd. he at once bought it for 55, and IH nlso several of tho other ones in circulation, which now repose in 'H his and other prlvato collections. - This is u case of where an owner's vf own ore was salted and sole? to 'H |