Show prospectors AS ASSAYERS those who go looking for quartz should know this A grizzled old prospector whose hose wrinkled brows the storms of many years tears had beaten was last lamenting the decadence of the traditional dit ional old time prospector prospecto r and the usurping of his place bv the eastern tenderfoot says the butte inter Mounta tn this picturesque char character acte oll of ye olden time is rapidly d disappearing ape ar ng from history and in his pi place comes corner a hardy race of younger men who with college education can cover twice the distance and undergo as many hard abid privations as the pi pioneers queers of 49 A week ago arzo a young man of this class arrived in butte from prospect prospecting inz ex expedition edition its made gey sey eral valuable localio aa on his trip and being well up in chemistry he had mide all hia his own essays assays during the season ite did not carry any but the testa tests he made were sufficient for every par purpose Dose ilia his assaying outfit cos con of e a email small bottle of carbonate of ammon lit A blow pipe and a small mortar harwith with ft porcelain celain dish and a few sheets of filter paper completed tho the out bt fit wea he made a digo overy of goad bearing quartz gaartz if it vaa reo 9 pre like hematite he he took a littia of it a and n rd ater pal vert mixing zing it placed it in tha the cup then he added enough of the solution of iodine to covet tta the contents alter after allowing it to for two hours or leet fees it it very rich ore orb hi he filtered the solution and dipped the filtering paper into it I 1 it gave a purple color filter after bl ng ing burnt it contained cold gold ind and ohp deeper the color bithe ct the paper the richer the ore in making a it teat of europ brov pyrites he first pulverized and ion men roasted the ore over an ordinary camp fire it was roasted at it dall red ht a at first and then raised to a ch cherry 0 rry red this decomposed tha the sulphates hates that were formed and placed the ore in in the same condition aa its in the free ore teet teat in limestone districts a little carbonate of ammonia was added to the charge and the roasted ore was heated again until the carbonate of ammonia was decomposed This prevented tho the lima in the ore from interfering with the teat for silver bearing quartz he be need the blowpipe blow pipe first ag a small quantity of the quartz be he bored a hole in in a soft betone and put the pulverized quartz into it A little test lead ead was mixed with the ore are and slid was no bolted molted 10 cited with slag the result resulting lead button was then cupel led and if it contained any silver a little silver button weald would ha be left at the bottom of the cupel |