Identifier: annualreportof5211898newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Regents
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: New York State Museum University of the State of New York. Board of Regents
Subjects: New York State Museum Science
Publisher: Albany : J.B. Lyon, State Printer
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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J. X. Xevius, photo. Gold mill and mine at Hadley, Saratoga county Plate 5. To face p. 83
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J. N. Nevius, photo. Sand dryer and pulverizer, Hadley gold mill, first floor REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1898 r83 had it assayed. Tlie report stated the value to be $7.63 a ton. Heundertook an investigation, and arrived at conclusions similar tothose of Mr Bullis. Other investigators were C. O. Yale, inventorof the famous lock, and Alonzo Chase, of Eedfield S. D. Thelatter made a great many tests of sands from Hamilton and Fultoncounties, and states that the average value obtained was $4: a ton;he also states that his lire assays frequently gave widely differingresults from the same sample of sand. A few^ years ago John E. Sutphen, of Albany, took up the in-vestigation with Mr Bullis. After the death of the latter, MrSutphen developed the process which bears his name, and w^hich isbeing tried for the first time on a commercial scale at this mill. At the point where the mill is located theSacandaga river has cutthe Quaternary sand plain into three distinct terraces, the lowest ofwhich rise

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