SHOTMAKING EXTRAORDINARY.
—o— A curious instance of how men tax their ingenuity to effect their purpose has just been exemplified on the Thames, which, however satisfactory to the experimenters, has earned disappointment to others. Yesterday the Shamrock tributers banked 60 ounces of what they thought was gold, which was duly chronicled in the local papers. On an assay being attempted, considerable difficulty was found in arriving at results. Re-treatment proved that there wele twenty-seven ounces of lead with tho gold. To account for this the tributers, oil inquiry, find that tho shaft they use had been made use of as a kind of underground shot tower, but the amateur shotmaker neglected to ascertain the result of Lis experiment. The lead being sho veiled up and mixed with the stone sent to tho mill, gave a seeming result to tho crushing highly favorable to the tributers, but it would not stand science and the crucible.—Thames Evening Star.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 644, 21 August 1874, Page 3
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