Traveling: through a Rohl country |
like this makes one covetous. Every
one thinks cold. talks (rohl. ant\. con
sidering- the prices at the restaurants. '
I mitilu almost say, cuts and drinks
gold. You see so much tjold in the
mines ami the hanks, that you fei I lilt?
the howjiar hoy with his nose flattened
nir.iimt the tilass wlrtflo>v of tho candy '
store. There Is plenty to he had were :
it not for the harrier between you ami '
the takinsr. At the clean-ups of the
rumps. 1 have handled cold nusrjrets as ;
one handles shelled corn, ar.d at the |
assay oflices I lmvo held, tip ?10."00 :
worth of pure cold hi one brick. While ;
at l>awson 1 raw J2OO.O00 forth of :
bricks wheeled about on a truck, such. ]
as you find at a country railroad sta
tion. The yob! bricks were heavy. They j
were worth from $!.">.OOP to $"0,000
apiece. At the same place I saw a ton ?
of amalgam. consisting of quicksilver :
mixed with noil, which will be shipped I
out to he reduced to Kold bullion. I
The amalgam is put into a furnace, a j
gallon or so at a tltiio. An intense heat
At the Assaycr's Oilier in Fair
banks. A ^ ay or JU-taud. in renter,
with ('iiuRtvsMtian \Vickorshain at
the left.
is tunic! O'l. This nit i:>
Mid turns :li <,uicks;lva v. por.
which pass< .- "if into a oil wi ? ? 'it.
? ?ondenses ami runs out . - ?,'i:ok - ;1 \>r
a;'.nin. The pure yold ?!"i ?? remains in
the furnance.
