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Title: E/MJ : engineering and mining journal
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: Mineral industries Engineering
Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of the four-legged braying animalof the prospector—I am always reminded of the ass-say, of the prospectors friend. Never once does anydisciple of Noah Webster pop up with the musicalrhythm of as-say. In every dictionary that I have examined—and Ibelieve I have looked into some eight or nine of them—from Johnson down to the Standard, published by Funk& Wagnalls, strange as it may seem, there are no twoways given of speaking the word. There is one correctpronunciation and only one for the poor little word ofthree different letters of the alphabet arranged so asto make two syllables. Why a college man does notconquer it and pronounce it as-sa\, as in all dic-tionaries of the English-speaking nations, is beyondmy understanding. Usage has no more right to claimas-say than it has to claim that the word .Tint shouldbe used. So, may the overworked ass-sayers be broughtinto the proper realm of the as-saj-ers! Hedley, B. C. RoswHEEL. 298 Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 110, No. 7
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CHINESE STUDENTS WORKING IN THE ASSAY LABORAT ClRV OF PEE YANG UNIVERSITY Mineral Enterprise in China Difficulties the Foreign Operator Must Contend With in Mineral Exploitation in That Country —Small Possibilities of Discovering Extensive Ore Deposits—Development of Properties Hindered by Lack of Transportation Facilities By Thomas T. Read* AVritten for Engineering and Mining Journal IN THE Kao Kung Chi, a work on the industriesof the Chou dynasty (B. C. 1122-249), written dur-ing that period, six different bronze alloys aredescribed in detail and their uses for the making ofaxes, hatchets, knives, spear and arrow heads, mirrors,bells, caldrons, gong§ and a variety of utensils are care-fully explained. A biographer of Lu-Tsu, who lived inthe latter half of the eighth century, says that amongthe eight stones he made most use of cinnabar, becausefrom that he extracted mercury; and among the fivemetals he made most use of lead, because from that heobtained silver. These historical

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