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Show WANTED AN ASSAY ON COCOA BEANS Salt Lake, Oct 29. "Kindly assav these beans and return me the result of the assay, if convenient" in tho way a letter yesterday from Ogden to the United States assay office read. The missive was accompanied by a small roll box containing cocoa beans. Tho owner of the beans apparently thought Uncle Sam's assay office analyzed an-alyzed other things than metals, which Is a misapprehension, according accord-ing to Assayer Charles Gammon. "I suppose the Ogden citizen wanted to find out the fineness nndypurity of the beans," remarked tho assayer. So he bundled them up and sent the box and letter to the state chemist, Herman Her-man Harms, who will look after it |