The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1929, Page 2

T o | Wiy don mil eed;.. The ensineer, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, 6,: 1929. SATURDAY, FEB. for the New Smson Latest Models _Exce ptional Style Assortment B. M. Behrends Co., Inc. Juneaw’s Leading Department Store Sizes 14-42 $32.50 By ERNEST Tales From the Hills (A Series of Popular Artitles on Prospecting) N. PATTY Dean of th Alaska Agricultural Coll AMPL ge and Sclrool of Mines. G A mining-enginesr sconting Im ore that would goto the mii. - mining company, learning o e high-grade strike on the Pau- >r'a. Dream vein, had paid, L and Jack a visii to look their prospeet two wetks holor e had cavetully saw pled v ag exposed.in’ the tunnel and 1 promissl to send them his assay sults. “Nels had been to tovn and had ¢ just brought their mail up to tho cabin. Larry and Jaek were puzzling over the blue prini which the engineer sent them. It showed a-skotch map of their tunnel with are assay values and vein widths s piotted at the points along the tun- ¢ nel -where the samples were: cut from the vein. “That enginser didn’t give us any the best of it in his sampling,” there - was a trace of amger in Jack's voice, “If these engincers hat' to develop these prospects from day to day. m thinking they wouldn't be ‘g0 cold blooded when it domes to cutting a sample. His figures show an average of §18.00 per ton for the vein along the en- the length of the tunnel-and an ayerage of $46 singe we struck the shoot of high-grade. il bet hg didn' take any more gold into his; gemples than he could hely Now:lopk at his sample No. 17, which: shows an assay of ssbm» that 1s close to the poimt where we got that high-grade spocimen that assayed better than $2.000 to the ton. Hew do you explain that?” High-Grade Specimen "“But, Jack, ¥Ou remember that the high-grade specimen we sen: in fop mssay. wasn't much larger thanre walsut. You remember- that we said at the time that we would nd it in not as a sample but out-of curiesity as to how high it weuld assay. Fve reached ‘conclusion: that. prospectors p - “kid” . themselves: by ‘sending; in picked specimens for 3 /won't /be. breaking: out speei-| s b0 send to the.mill; ‘but, we | be breaking down.the entire’ RS S < A (O S R R A 5 S R e t hfs samples from wall fo wall ust as ‘we would stope- it “Yes, you talk you: remember raise - whor oot rib of granit wiched «in the vein? he started to moil of waste you 2 uad so lively that I though you ware going to hit him on the head with a piece of dril ross 1 ever saw a wild Iri - you qualified.” smiled ruefully. “I wa ght for 1 hated 1o soe waste getting into the sam ple. 1 don't suppoge though, we woald mpt to sort out that rib of waste when we start ing.” min ettt 0 et i Lindseth’s AT MOOSE HALL TONIGHT (Five Pieces—'Nuf said. Big Cash : Prize Waliz) EVERBODY INVITED COME— whiche &4 : J* hu:&mfé Wui andy 9 o el e [tirst he cleaned down the vein to ®et a f{resh exposure—the he took his carbide lamp and black- ened two marker lines acrozs the vein to define the width of the sample he was going to cut. These Maes were five or gix inches apart, I judge. Then do you remember how he shook off that canvas, laid it on the floor of the drift and be gan cutting a channel square! j |across the vein? Those channels he cut were ahout six inches wide and_ about an inch deep. “When be finished the sample, he had about: ten pounds of quartz;on the canvas 3. don’t See is why he broke up all the big pleces so particular like before he divided the samples. | 8Uppose; however, he a par tiendan, cuss and was afraid some of; the big pieces would ch his ayerage one way or the After he hed the mple all hroken down, he mixed it by rolling it on the canvas. then he flattened it out and. marked it out inty four pleces~—like die was cutiing a pie He: threw -away two opposite ters and ‘begah crishing the due flwer,. Then he repeated the mixing and cut, it again, pie-fash et’s grant for & moment that the engineer got wn elote average on what the veln jgarries. Now, if we - stoped this’veln from end to end-our mill feed would avera: about $18.00 per.ton" and rock like that we would just. @bout bresk even.. If on the other hand, we stoped only the - high' grade shabt we would be geiting $560.00 vre which: would net. us.a nice profit.”? but Larry, we haven's tonnage. of the high grade yet,” . Jaek: interposed “Yes, much developed cautiously. “It the highigrade stays with us until next season, Jack, we sho\i‘:d get enough blocked out t3 warraht| putting in & ‘mil% - 10 looks like |’ some hard waork partner, before we start ‘shipping any bullion. . the mean time we might ‘steal*a wrinkle from that engiveer ‘and’ sample our new work.” » “And Larry,” responded Jack, with ‘a sly grin, “we will bave g check on the next engineer: who 5 comes up here to sampie. =1 would like ‘to catch one of those fellows: giving the mine the werst of it. Lety see just how he eul those samples.’s Larry grabfied a moil and a single-jack, 1! *It's: like this, Jack, D, N5 SIS A SN SASEA Orchestra ook out that fancy did a lot of writing tion measuring the sample.’ “Yes, I guess that takes in all| the steps except putting the mum-| ber on a piece of paper and wadd-| ng it into a tight square and fin- ally putting it on top of the gam ple as a marker, 1 don’t w wa conldn't sample ou ame way? Maost of 3 a good strong right arm notebook not to men-| width of the all it ‘Now that we have this sampl-| Tw ing racket threshed out, grumbled | W "& don’t Hkc the way t orge engine us dowi. 1o | members, turned ays here at the bottom of the lot ter that we have hut he does not helieve T i A {her colors, but it does seem like Why do yom ipose he wqfgoing too far. whea sle's even that on—something told me that|Willing for the color of things sup we shouldn't h eaten that last can of grapefruit the night celebrated. 1f we could have fed him a little faneier, probably M TO THE EMPIRE a Classlfied If you want to buy, anyduug——uae i G Claésifiad . 1f you have a room to rent, or bouse ~oran apartment-—use uMfid 8 | props i tutd oat 160 tons @ da thatvis teo small fi to. Ay watehoout vowill skinous out Laarvy, suppose does Homestake,'! would wou “do -the snat no question some conutry wwhere theyy wear rubber aay den’t call.drjed apples{ | shys erty thare hunt don’t w fr hat have to throw us off the track re garding the value of the property 40 we won't ask too fancy a fig- | ure | After Big Tonnage “No, Larry, with a puzzled “I believe he meant s, Yoit hnow s hig compan- es are npwafter (he hiz tonnage mines @ if they ave low.grade. This big: seale, production is bet- en smited to thein organizations than (the small yich mines. Jt.is I'ke this: A big departmant ‘storé lin Seattle isn't interested in a little peanut stand in an adjoining " verhead sugh a. small wenture. £ boys. naneg We Larey for wit! tha first cil hgd to cancel its regu » monthly meeting. nling will be s annou »|Clerk. H: P uu\or and. ‘rebuilder. Phone § }MN Hills” Judging from the response they have received, many pros WWéM@b we pectors: have found ihem worth while. We will step aside for a time while Jack and. Larry con- A By i . tinue development work on their ; property. It this, development fon, and retained the final tWo ok ghows up well you will hear) aquarters of the pie for his Sam- e ahout theis problems ‘later ples {on; far then they musk raisa capi ~ . Measures Width 1l fo put-the mine on an .opar “Wait a minute, Jack” Larr basis and select proper milling responded. “Remember lLow ,‘ cquipment. * NO QUORUM, COUNCIL MEETING CANCELLED Owing {anorum last night, {was unable to attend all oged 1o weland unseeable: to bhe revealed. Bell 1. If you want to sell anythmg—nse Y Theae; Txtfie chsufieds work hour, is just a Pro »od moy this nrsperty (we eromeans and it we members of the : i § z : | ) z ) z ) S 1 § i z N | | : z N : z N : % d had aibett I su AN r ook at the however, those fellow an individual ean with-the peanul with its would lose money company | ‘] don't sed any,ehance of this | Propexty ever,tarning Anie: anbig tonng mi Wagmight get her) L upios the, pointy whete she : condd taaint Whsn we iget req will havef don RUDDSNS. FOme &M of -t tiis ‘prop:§ out (1o bhe . a Jack, 1what{ make rakad dac ely, “Jack} about ‘it.; - Kl and ) shoe' 3 article comncludes eries of “Tales From the o> - to the ce of a the City Goun* ar semi- ial meet- Friday, it by - City A spi held mext ced today R. Shepard Couneil Wallis 8! 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