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He was loud with reproaches, for the assayer had pronounced the "gold" only worthless iron pyrites. He had received, too, a jeering letter from his proposed partner in Sparta, who had found sport in playing on his consequential ignorance and fancied sharpness. And now Nate declared that Birt, also, had known that the mineral was valueless, and had from the first befooled him.
They proceeded to the attorney's office, but had not been there long before Slapjack Simms burst in upon them. "Hell to pay!" he panted. "McNamara's taking your dust out of the bank." "What's that?" they cried. "I goes into the bank just now for an assay on some quartz samples. The assayer is busy, and I walk back into his room, and while I'm there in trots McNamara in a hurry.
"The assayer will need the 'philosopher's stone' to find gold in any samples from this locality." "Ye knowed then, all the time, ez this stuff warn't gold?" asked Birt. "All the time," rejoined the elder. "An' Nate hev got the steepest, rockiest spot in the kentry ter pay taxes on," resumed Birt, reflectively. "An' he hev shelled out a power o' money ter the surveyor, an' sech, a'ready.
The assayer went to a shelf, took down a small canvas bag, glanced at a mark that identified it as one in which samples of "See Saw" rock had arrived for the former assay, and turned it inside out.
The result was the "Pallas" was chartered to carry out the machinery, some mill-wrights, a couple of engineers, a couple of mill workers, an assayer, and any miscellaneous freight that Sedgwick might desire to send. The ship was hauled into the wharf next day, and the loading of what was ready was begun. Sedgwick got on board his wagons and trappings from Sacramento.
The desire to win your favour, and therefore the effort to please, are undoubted. 'Mr. Falkirk, you must be the assayer! Suppose you tell me now about all these people here, to begin with. I have not seen much that reminded me of magic yet, she said with a curl of her lips. 'What people? said Mr. Falkirk, hastily. 'What people? Oh, I forgot you were not at Mme. Lasalle's to- day.
The older man took a portion of the blackish, gritty mass and held it close to his carbide. "It looks like something it looks like something!" His voice was high, excited. "I 'll finish the 'ole and jam enough dynamite in there to tear the insides out of it. I 'll give 'er 'ell. But in the meantime, you take that down to the assayer!" Fairchild did not hesitate.
"Do with it, man? It all came out of the same identical prospect," Van interrupted. "These were later samples than the others, that's all." The assayer glanced over his shoulder at the hope-destroying slips. "The 'See Saw' claim," he said perfunctorily. "You bought it, Van, who from?" "From Selwyn Briggs." "Sorry," said the assayer briefly. "H'm! That Briggs!"
When you have located your claim, the next thing is to select some specimens and subject them to the test of the "fire assay." For this purpose it is customary to select the richest lump you can find, and take it to the assayer.
After an extended inspection of the different departments of the large milling plant, he was taken into a small laboratory, where the assayer in charge was testing some of the recently discovered ore for the presence of certain metals. After watching for a while in silence Darrell said, turning to Mr. Underwood, "I can give you a quicker and a surer test than that!"
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