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Angela Varesano
6/30/72
Frank Zahay

Monel rings and Sulfur stones:

Square or sulfur stones are found in roprock ie. soft rock, black sandy rock, black sandstone.
Sulfur diamonds were found in certain kinds of black slate between the layers.

Monel - when they were repairing machinery in the shop there used to be peices of this metal left over. Some call it "barnel" which is a mispronunciation. The monel from the worn out parts was used to make rings Proceedure: Take a rod and drill a hole in the middle with a high speed iron drill, the size of the finger. Slice off the width of the ring wanted from the rod. Shape it - the bottom will be much narrower than the top. Use an emery wheel and files to shine it. Use sandpaper and a buffer on a wheel to polish it. When the hole is made for the stones, drill a hold on the top. Start with a small size and file size you want to fit the stone. It should be tapered from the inside to the outside. Put it in the hole. Melt lead and pour into the space between the stone and the inside of ring Monel rings were used in the late 1920's on into the 30's and 40's. Other items such as pendants, tie pins with sulfur stones, watch fobs of polished monel discs (these were not decorated as monel was very tough.)

People used copper belts - a band of copper in sections. It was worn next to the skin for some reason.????

sulfur stone -
------lead
[illustration of style of the rings top view]

Stills: The still forms steam, runs through a coil, condenses and forms whiskey. The coil is about 20' long and runs through cold water. There was a man by the name of Barnoski whose wife used to throw the mash to the pigs. They would get drunk andjust sit there on their rumps and snort as you.

Miners needle - used with squib explosives. It was 6-7 feet long. It had a looped end and it was tapered. You turned it as you pulled it out of the hole. The taper and the loop would keep debris out of the hole, making the hole sides well tamped up as the needle was withdrawn.