Mariposa Democrat., 1857-04-01
LIQuIFIED QUARTZ.

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richest dye and variegated tincture. 1t was
soon asccrtained that the surface of the slabs
was polished to the smoothness of glass, that
they resisted the action Of water and acid, and
that the coloring was not impressed on the
surface of the stone, but sufiused into it by
some chemical process, so that when these
layers of the slabs were sawn off and the sur
faces polished, the same landscapes, with equal
vivdness of coloring and exactness of delinea-
ton, were visible to the delighted gaze of the
antiquarian. On reading the following state
ment relative to the dissolying of quartz rock
by humid heat and a combination Of fluxes and
acids, we strongly suspected that this discove-
ry bore some relation in chemical combina-
tions with the ancient mode Of impressing
colors into stone At all events, if this process
of generating glass could be improved by the
discovery of the secret which was in the pos
session of the ancient artist, and which ena-
blcd him to impress pictures into the hard
marble, what beautiful lasting, pictorial his
tory of our great national events could be
handed down to our posterity. As regards
DR.. Hardinge's discovery we have nothing ap-
parent, nothing ocular 1t is true it is endor-
Hsed and verified by some names Of scientific
; renowh, but as the attempt has been often
tried Of reducing by heat and precipitating the
gold in quartz when in liquid state, and after
trial pronounced practicable by scientific men,
and then found too expensive, too tedious and
too precarious an operation, why we must re-
ccive this gentlcman's declarations with eau
ton, and make some allowance for the force
of Imagination. Probably excited by one sue
cessful experiment in which quartz has been
found soluble in heated furnaces Of acids, still
we must not condemn nor deny because the
: discovery is beyond our ken or the range Of
our knowledge Of chemistry. Trusting for the
interest of our State that all his hopes and an
ticipations in regard to it may be realized, we
submit the article without further comment.
ASIDE from the application Of my patents
: in localities like California, where the gold
: bearing rock is quarried, ! aim at the estab-
: shmcnt of factories at New York and other
harbors, where the gold bearing quartz can be
brought in cargocs from the Southern States
and Central America, and where the fluid
rock Cor the articles manufactured from it) can
be most convenient for shipment As the
fuid stticate is very valuable for building
materials and many other purposes ~e Utility
and ornament even the quartz around New
York, both the rock and granular (without re-
ference to goD can be made to yield immense
profit, and used in the thousand ways that art
ard science will use it for the necessities and
, luxuries of civilization. And will here refer
especially to an immense change in building,
a both exterior and interior-common and un-
q common-not only much cheaper than brick
or sandstone, but far more durable, and beau
tiful beyond description. Even my handsome
= building stones are moulded very rapidly into
blocks of any desirable shape and size. They
ara ,noda IN Of varias,aied unefa n'rartg racb
as quarried in opening streets and evellng hills
some of them being already richly colored with
mineral oxides and intcrpersed with mica
, These are broken and mixed with quartz peb-
blcs, burned calcareous argl, &C., &c, mixed
with and consolidated by the aforesaid liquid
base.
81 have bought great many tons of white
and colored granite. gneiss and feldspar, inter
spersed with mica, just as it was blasted, in
the neighborhood of 35th street, delivered sew
eral squares off for Is pence per load of about
a ton each. | paid $50 also for cargo Of
white pebbles from Long Island beach, ranging
in size from pea to that of a goose egg. |
bought few tons of snow white sand. 1t is
my purpose to mix these, by dumping ton
alternately into common heap, then mould
them into any desired form by mixing for the
last interstice calcinated calcareous argil, car
Donate OF lime, &C., variegating, also, the IL
quor scum with mineral oxides chem-
cal solid is thus formed that will never disin-
tegrate few hands and a presto be fur
nished me by Joseph L. Ilolmes-of quick de-
livery, will mould good many tons day.
These stones slide on to facing bed Of my
own patented invention. They are then var
nished by the liquor of flint, and exhibit the
richest conglomcratc ever beheld. No eye
ever saw so beautiful a stone. These cost me
no more than the price of the commonest
brick and they are laid up in wall much faster
on account of their much larger size and ex-
actness. The mortar in which they are laid is
of the same material as the stone, and the
whole sides of the building become one solid
mass. For the commoncst buildings, the col
ored pebbles and brown sand, already mixed
spontaneously at different points, where works
can be erected for the great supply, quickly
monldad, Of a saauoh Toss prico taan brick, and
and far more durable and beautiful.
"The stables and other out-houses and stone
walls for my model house, are destined to be
of the latter, in order to preserve relief in
keeping with the sublime and beautiful The
windows of unique form, neither square, Goth
in nor round, but forming as it were large
gems in prisnatic colors, of crystalline quartz,
with the ornamental projections of scrolls of
bloodstone, with here and there set design Of