Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Precious Ore in Central Park. [ARTICLE]

Precious Ore in Central Park.

“There is silver in Central Park, and I think gold and tin are also to be found there.” The speaker was Colontd H. Charles Ulman, a lawyer of New York. Colonel Ulman, who was in command of the Fifth Regiment of Pennsylvania Reserves during the civil war, is a practical miner as Well as a soldier and lawyer. For eight years he was interested in mining in Colorado, and the knowledge he had gained in regard to it is of the practical sort. “What makes you think those metals are to be found there?” he was asked. “I have found one, silver, and there are indications of the others,” he replied. “Not long ago, while passing through the depressed roadway at Sixty-fifth street, I noticed a rock of peculiar appearance in the north retaining wall. I examined it with the glass I always carry in my pocket, and saw unmistakable traces of silver. I chipped off a piece of the rock. I used five milligrams of it in making an assay, and the result of the assay was a showing of forty-six ounces of silver to the ton. I learned from inquiry at the park department that all the rock used in building this retaining wall was quarried in the park. If that be the case, there is silver in Central Park. Since I clipped the piece from the stone in the wall in the Sixty-fifth street roadway, the stone has been removed aud another has been put in its place, but I am confident that a little prospecting would result in finding stone in the park that will not only show traces of silver but of gold and tin as well.