The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1900, Page 3

THE SUNDAY CALL. 8 VAOLT. #5.000.000 IN SIGHT: CADS TIHNG A BRicx ana araw interest to the wmount Of twd fnitely more pride smpties o s a month, at which rate eight ounces of “e it would not take the brick so very many “dust,” the result andred dolla gold pedes: BOC and An imitation gold b gold direc the South Americar part of their prod o mber seed' WEIGHING RoomMm, NOTHING BUT GoLD IN SIGHT-- % » o - pr t over lars of coid reservs r nd those two pipes " re They sere made & 1 have . 1 saving o - 1 actd and | re amons . pes wera t In the world Is ‘ & b deep. either. for r he way through. ert beautiful, for nlimiteC as human pleasant expression e that i: fixed and hen yon realize what a gol¢ brick can e th h of the forego- h $20,000; that is ONE OF “THE. MELTING - or ever hope to PoomMms much greater than at present and on one Wkigion SiTas SAEas occaston a lucky chim: 3 i A -3 —— fortune profiting by a k ow $20 a month it w - the price of ¢ such bad Juck » and if you manage swme of the gold from Australia. the Phil- ippines and Siberia eventually reaches e that lon S5 Franéiio from the more =ki'led 1¢borer of & Gold in small quantities Is a drug in the C.et t0 & quired = me 3 xperlence you market, and it is seidom that the person B 3 o e 5 or $60 4 month, with a' few dollars” warth to- sell gets Shte of fduidity for casting fawices o rfortable ‘sum. On over. one-fifth of its value for it. The S0t e s e at home, wear old chimneys; most of them were for T e it over the Francisco asions receipts for ve been geneous given in a is melted by itself bricks, from is c r assay made of er paid for the value as resuit of the assay. a =iphon. with the three bricks is It was not hing, forty-. t work wil ng worth as much as 2 see smiling at you from the center o the page. k. then, is worth more than 1 actual coin or sibllities. See what It repre- adards are taken in which is ~ighest of all. Farm horses are worth about $30 aplece at the present time, take them as they run, young and old, gcod and bad. The gold brick could buy a thousand of them. Or if the gold brick did not want to buy things with itself it could just sit down mint cannot handle small amounts, as a separate melt has to be made of each ir- dividual lot brought in. Prefiting by this, dealers have established a tariff which makes old gold as hard to get rid of as old clothes. After they have accu- mulated $100 worth, the mint will take it and pay its full cash vaiue, less about 2 per cent for refining charges. The receiving-room at the mint Is one ot the most interesting marts in the whole world of trade. There you will see the great mine-owner, whose shipments have come in by express, take a receipt for more gold than he could have brought in a wheelbarrow. Beside him may be a miner who Is at the other end of the scale, and with In- . hundred dollars. One enterprising youns man offered to clean the cl 'mreys nothing if he were permitted to have soot for his trouble. His very gener offer was accepted and he secured mora than $20,000 worth of gold dust from the cleanings; the result of the insensible atomization of gold by the furious heat of the furnaces, which 1 permitted it to be carrfed up into the chimneys. The mint now does its own chimney sweeping, cremates its own carpets and with them the old clothes and mitts of tle melters and others whose work causes them to come in contact with the abraded metal. Tens of thousands of dollars are secured in this way each year.