Show it yr tyr t lai X t t i styf tt yf I 1 v ait 2 FAMO US jr ti MINING STRIKES X f f yi V r by THOMAS E STEWARD oo 00 1 salt salted ed mines A 0 m the earliest days day bt bf mining 1 i the h e practice of 0 bolting belting mine or drooping into the pit or teat ati boid of an averige average value star fir the ground actually J COD contains bas baa been one ona for prospective to guard against with ith all al their alta salting pro probably babiy bus baa all anc ceedee thousands of times and in thousands of other instances the ex amling expert haa been keen roligh to detect the attempted frauds some years ago is a young man with a high squeaky voice whom chemin ers thought to be effeminate and ayob 1 ably 4 an elliby easy one jolle to slip something over on was sent kotwa western bulit ata to to examine a placer dep deposit the owneta had salted several pits and expected hant to the bali bait like a trout when ther therefore eforo the examiner ai ask eathem d them togo on off tor for a days hunting nj as he ho wished to dig his own pits they were more surprised than pleased bu next day he allowed the moil men to goi go to the river with him white while he washed out ut hla his collected sampes he was wag washing the owners odthe of the property showed great interest in ik the proceedings and crowded around him while one efthem distracted his big attention for a moni moment mit another would slip bobrie biome gold dust into the pan this they did ten times and every time when he had come to the bottom of the pan he reported no gold whatsoever finally finalli he be stopped work gentlemen he said bald 1 I regret to say that there Is no gold at all ah on your property they could not believe their ears tor for they had bad put in the gold themselves the explanation wits was that he had been alert to their action all the time and had washed the gold out of bf the pan as fast a as they put it in s so 0 that nothing appeared when he be got through it is related that to in S south africa a group of overeager miners went so far as to install a stamp mill at a point where they hoped but did not know that thai gold existed they operated abed the mill for some time but no goldbas gold was found adhering to the stamps rather lather thanh than admit dmit that the stock was worthless they decided to salt the mill they withdrew in f gold cot coins nals from al a bank and gave it to an assayer to be run down into the form of bars which they intended to represent as the product of the stamp mill in a day or two woy they received the bars bare but found they were worth only 2500 naturally they were eaker eager to know what had to the 1600 1500 oh well the assayer said vi at seems to roe me that the difference Is no more than lils it la worth tor for me to keep my coy mouth shut about this matter and they agreed with him for there was nothing else that they could do |