Show BANDING SAMPLES iwo of tie most prominent ore samplers in colorado hive just bien detected in oue of the most extensive steals ever made from d mining corn pany in U e aspen section of the coun try rhey were handling tors of ore biily of U e compromise mining company and about as much more in the aggregate from other small corn pinies their method of robbing the producers was by putting sand in the sample that was divided half to be re turned to the mine owners and half to be assayer jt the sampler by which means they largely reduced the percent age of lead and silver in the sample and ran it high in silica making the cost of much breuer by putting the same amount of sand in bi th samples tle assay of the mining company s chemist always tallied with that of the assayers at the sam ler then they would make out a statement to hie shelters smelters sm elters after settling with tl e compromise mining company spond with the real value of the ore in this way in a few months they swin died this mining company out of and when caught in the act of put ting sand in the sample confessed to all their |