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Updated: May 14, 2025
This soil, see, is fat enough, if men were here to till it. These rocks who knows what minerals they may hold? I hear of gold and jewels found already in divers parts; and Daniel, my brother Humphrey's German assayer, assures me that these rocks are of the very same kind as those which yield the silver in Peru.
Van took the sack in his hand, examined it silently, then glanced as before at his papers. "Salted by that lump of a Briggs!" His lip was curved in a mirthless smile. "I guess I've got it in the neck all right. These last samples tell the real story." He slapped the papers across his hand, then tore them up in tiny bits and threw them on the floor." "Sorry, old man," said the assayer, as before.
There were two surgeons, or barbers, and a physician; there were an overseer, a secretary, a master-at-arms; there was an interpreter to speak to the natives of the new lands in Hebrew, Greek, German, Chaldean or Arabic; and there was an assayer and silversmith to test the quality of the precious metals that they were sure to find.
Under him are a treasurer, an assayer, a chief coiner, an engraver, and a melter and refiner. The gold and silver, before it is coined, is called bullion. There is a branch mint in New Orleans, one at Charlotte, in North Carolina, one at Dahlonega, in Georgia, one in California, and one in the city of New York. At the place last mentioned, gold is assayed, but not coined.
Number One: Our copper samples didn't reach the assayer make a long black mark ... Therefore make a short black mark ... Number Two: Either Old Pete's crazy theory is correct in every particular a long black mark ... Or now a short black mark ... Number Three: The assayer has thrown us down a long black mark ... Number Four: Which would be just as bad make a long black mark."
This man was short, slight of build and nervous of action and gesture a young man perhaps twenty-six years of age. Carlos Tisco was secretary to Don Luis. Tisco was a graduate of a university at the capital City of Mexico, a doctor of philosophy, no mean chemist, a clever assayer of precious metals and an engineer. In a word Dr.
"How can you know where it is when you have to look for it?" the other man inquired. Grenfell glanced at him severely. "I'm not drunk it's my knees," he pointed out. "Don't cast slurs on me. I was once Professor of mineralogical chemist and famous assayer too. Biggest mining men in the country consulted me." The track-grader nodded as he glanced at Weston. "I guess he was," he said.
It makes the meanest of us sacred it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the great assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the drossy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust the finer and more ethereal part mounts with the winged spirit to watch over our latest memory and protect our bones from insult.
But the variety of the mineral discovered down the ravine he said was valueless, unless occurring in vast quantities, when it is sometimes utilized in the production of sulphur. "I wonder," Birt broke out suddenly, "if the assayer won't find no gold in them samples ez Nate sent him." The professor laughed.
"Have you got it as bad as that? Snakes alive! All right, I guess I'll remember." "Be good," said Van, and off he went to the assayer's shop for which he had started before. The assayer glanced up briefly. He was busy at a bucking-board, where, with energetic application of a very heavy weight, on the end of a handle, he was grinding up a lot of dusty ore. "Greeting, Van," said he. "Come in."
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