Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

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stoiie hammer into small pieces; then it is shovelled
into the feeders or stamp bed, where the great iron
stamps, weighing from five to eight hundred pounds
each, hammer away day and night, rising and falling
sixty times a minute, making the building tremble
while they crush the rock to powder —making the
surrounding hills resonant with the heavy music, every echo from which says-" bullion!"
We do not mean the hydra-headed stamps of Uncle Sam, which produce other and different notes, but
the crushing music of the mill stamps, every blow
from which has a silvery ring.
The pulp, if free from base metals, is now put into amalgamating pans, with quicksilver and plenty
of warm water, in which the whole is agitated, the
refuse material passes off in the water, while the
quicksilver collects the precious metal into,- mass
of shining amalgum, which is put into a fire-retort
of iron, with a pipe allowing the fumes of quicksilver to escape, which is condensed into cold water to
be again used. The metal in a rough state is now
taken to an assayer, where it is melted and run into
bricks or bars, of the precious metals, with the fixed
value stamped upon it. The process seems simple,
which takes heavy, worthless-looking ore, and transforms it into glowing gold and shining silver. Yet,
this philosopher's stone has been discovered only by
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