Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — SAVING THE GOLD DUST. [ARTICLE]

SAVING THE GOLD DUST.

Precautions Taken in the Mannfr.ctaring Jeweler’s Kstalilishment. Washing machines seem all right enough in a laundry, but they would scarcely lie looked for in the establishment of a manufacturing jeweler. Yet they play an Important part in such a plant. In a washing machine washed daily all the aprons and all the blouses worn by the workers employed in the manufacture of articles of gold. Then the water in which these things have lieen washed is piped to a room where the gold contained in it is extracted and saved. Particles of gold aohere to the hands and faces of the workers in the precious metal, and even get into their hliir. Twice a day all the operatives wash their hands and faces; and the water is, like that from the washing machine, piiaxl to the extracting room. Here there is installed a big filter, with Its filtering section made of canvas and resembling outwardly the pleated section of a giant square concertina. as it would kadi partly drawn out. All the water from the washing machine and from the wash Ikiwls in the factory is forced through this filter, and at regular Intervals the filtering section is taken out and the gold removed from it. All the floors in the factory are covered with tar paper, which eutelies and bolds all the gold particles that fall upon it. From time to time a new paper covering is laid on the floors, the old being burned for the gold contained in it. ' “SSP” By these means are saved in n factory annually thousands of dollars’ yvorth of gold tliat without such precautions woutd InevitaoljFte lost— New York Sun. '