Roughing It
Roughing It
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One would not suppose that atoms of gold and silver would float on top of six inches of water, biit they did ; and in order to catch them, coarse blankets were laid in the troughs, and little obstructing "riffles" charged with quick- silver were placed here and there across the troughs also.
These riffles had to be cleaned and the blankets washed out every evening, to get their precious accumulations — and after all this eternity of trouble one third of the silver and gold in a ton of rock woul...d flnd its way to the end of the troughs in the ravine at last and have to be worked over again some day.
There is nothing so aggravating as silver milling. There never was any idle time in that mill. There was always something to do. It is a pity that Adam could not have gone 254 WASHING BLANKETS AND "SCREENING TAILINGS." straight out of Eden into a quartz mill, in order to understand the full force of Ms doom to " earn his bread by the sweat of his brow." Every now and then, during the day, we had to scoop some pulp out of the pans, and tediously "wash" it in a horn spoon — wash it little by little over the edge till at last nothing was left but some little dull globules of quicksilver in the bottom.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
One would not suppose that atoms of gold and silver would float on top of six inches of water, biit they did ; and in order to catch them, coarse blankets were laid in the troughs, and little obstructing "riffles" charged with quick- silver were placed here and there across the troughs also.
These riffles had to be cleaned and the blankets washed out every evening, to get their precious accumulations — and after all this eternity of trouble one third of the silver and gold in a ton of rock woul...d flnd its way to the end of the troughs in the ravine at last and have to be worked over again some day.
There is nothing so aggravating as silver milling. There never was any idle time in that mill. There was always something to do. It is a pity that Adam could not have gone 254 WASHING BLANKETS AND "SCREENING TAILINGS." straight out of Eden into a quartz mill, in order to understand the full force of Ms doom to " earn his bread by the sweat of his brow." Every now and then, during the day, we had to scoop some pulp out of the pans, and tediously "wash" it in a horn spoon — wash it little by little over the edge till at last nothing was left but some little dull globules of quicksilver in the bottom.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 to read onlineMoreLess
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