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Almost invariably these showed that the assays had been made from samples that would have paid to work, but this alone gave them no hope. But this was not all. A mysterious enmity seemed to pursue all their efforts. Yet its displays were unaccountable for by natural causes.
On the authority of such assays its newspaper correspondents were frothing about rock worth four and seven thousand dollars a ton!
After gentlest assays to know what was possible, the result might be that he grew courteously playful, or drew back, and confined himself to the formal. In the conversation that followed, he soon found the younger capable of being interested, and, having seen much in many parts of the world, had plenty to tell her.
The young contributor may test his work before the editor assays it, if he will, and he may know by a rule that is pretty infallible whether it is good or not, from his own experience in doing it. Did it give him pleasure? Did he love it as it grew under his hand? Was he glad and willing with it? Or did he force himself to it, and did it hang heavy upon him?
Having seen the ores and assays, we are satisfied that the mines of the District are very valuable anything but wild-cat. Once more native imbecility had carried the day, and I had lost a million! It was the "blind lead" over again. Let us not dwell on this miserable matter. I saw Marshall, months afterward, and although he had plenty of money he did not claim to have captured an entire million.
"So, so; so, so;" replied the man in the derby in a high voice. "Your vein is a fissure vein all right enough, and you've got a good wide lead. If it holds up in quality, I don't know but what you're right." "I shows you them assays of McPherson's, don't I?" argued Mizzou, "an' any quartz in this kentry that assays twenty-four dollars ain't no ways cheap."
Is it any good?" "Is it good?" Again Old Undertaker Chastine looked over his glasses. "That's just the trouble. It's too good it's so good that it seems there's something funny about it. Son, that stuff assays within a gram, almost, of the ore they 're taking out of the Silver Queen!" "What's that?"
An energetic prospector from Georgetown, El Dorado County, named Knox, discovered a big ledge of quartz in Squaw Valley. It was similar rock to that in which the Comstock silver was found in large quantities. Though the assays of the floating-rock did not yield a large amount of the precious metals, they showed a little as high as $3.50 per ton. This was enough.
Mary could not understand his preoccupation. It piqued her. A slight strangeness sprang up between them which he was too distrait to notice. Finally, as he tumbled into bed that night, an idea so brilliant came to him that he sat bolt upright in sheer delight at his own astuteness. He would ask Dr. McPherson for a copy of the assays.
I burned and crushed bones to make my bone-dust for cupelling, and thus provided made nearly forty assays, some of which were afterwards checked in Adelaide, in each instance coming as close as check assays generally do.
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