Different recipes depend on the expertise of the assayer or on the special purpose for which it was made (assays for minting, jewelry, testing purity of recycled material or coins).
The town later boasted a physician, assayer, notary, shoemaker, two hotels, two saloons, another livery yard, an opera house, a tin shop, and two more sawmills.
Some cobs were struck with a date, and most show a mintmark and an initial or monogram for the assayer, the mint official who was responsible for weight and fineness.
During the production of these coins some minor modifications were made in the location of the mintmark and assayer's initials.
In some countries, the testing of silver objects and marking of purity is controlled by a national assayer's office.
The town was composed of tents and log cabins, but soon had stores, carpenters, a hotel, saloon, blacksmith shop, and an assayer.
Within five years new brokers, assayers and refiners opened.
Exhibitions include a replica of a mining tunnel and an assayer's office, both which visitors walk through.
