Show OGDEN MINES prof on the situation EDITOR if the will be BO kind as to publish letter lay proposition to the public will be known and as the saying is to act any thing is to prove it hanco I wish tho public to know I am ready and willing to stand tho test in what I have many times stated and now affirm viz that the ore in ogden vicinity is paying beyond all previous description which I can prove with out unnecessary more than will attend any mining the proposition is ns follows I propose to ogden city to any individual or company eliat will furnish me with suitable material for erecting a small pocket furnace all of which will not cost to exceed 50 including a good bellows to melt and run in lumps gold and silver bullion mixed with a small percentage of base metal that it will pay from to 10 per day will use flux fuel will be charcoal if to be had but if charcoal cannot bo got I will use Kock Spring coal and hard wood I do not propose to boil the ore in the furnace only to to collect the metal in lumps all of which settles with the slag after a run of say pounds of ore take out the slag pound up and out pure bright bumps of metal which will assay way up in gold I wish this far nace erected after my own pattern simple as it may appear to the skilled architect in furnace building you know it was not tho mighty armor of king saul that killed the giant but tho humble sling if this precious metal can be collected in paying quantities as clieaf as you say it can why dont you mr fludd take hold of it yourself without assist anca answer it is for the want of means not able to hire it done and of course my railroad accident prevents me from doing the or it would surely be done it is generally understood in mineralogy that gold does not exist only in a native it be ever so fine it is still native or in a pure bright state allowing this to be the rule there is abundant proof of objection to it all of which will bo developed as man progresses gold has been passed by simply because quicksilver would not collect it and why not because it is not native or bright it is more the color of yellowish brown achre ochre than it is like gold and is often mixed with sulphates which also prevents it amalgamating ga mating with quicksilver how then shall wo collect this gold which generally is mixed more or less with other metal smelling smelting Sm elting with the proper flux will collect it in lumps I will now tell you what I can do with ore picked from the dump of the co mine also three or four other places I could mention near by with the furnace above mentioned I can make ten dollars a day then what in tho name of common sense is tha use of people saying times are heird no work etc nonsense but gentlemen if we wait for capital to develop the ogden mines wo may still continue in pursuit without ever possessing can you not clearly discover if wages ann cnn bejado upon a small scale great wealth can be made upon a large scale then try alie pocket furnace and let people see what can bo done with the oden laines respectfully L D OGDEN oct |