Arizona citizen., 1876-02-05
The Fryer Process.


 | This process forms the basis of 8 patent for superior effectiveness and
 cheapness in extracting metals from
 ores. There has been much discussion
 over it, and vast deal of mystery and
 secrecy in regard to the method and
 apparatus, which may augur we'll or ' ill of it, as subsequent developments
 shall prove.
 The Mining and Railway Register,
 of St Louis, distrusts the whole thing
 and says:
 I Much mystery has been affected by
 certain parties concerning what has | gained some nOtoriety as the 'Fryer process IT their is no lnOre of it, than
 what may he found in the subjoined description of the paieIt just issued. ! we would expect nothing from it but
 mOrtifying failure and needless lUsS of money. There is nothing presented herein but an attempt 10 initiate the ' Spencer process in which Spencer failed SO completely eight years rco iri St. Louis. VOlatilizing the precious metals from gangue matter, and recov- ering by condensation, VII not answer It's old, and failure
 "170,e2J. Apparatus for roasting gold and silver ores, Robert II. Fryer, New York city, N T., assignOr to the Fryer Noble Melting Company, of New York The fuel and quartz are feG in through the door. The heat of com buStion generates steam in the jacket, winch passes up, and issuing through a circular perforated pipe in the stack, causes a draft The metallic fumes, as they issue from the furnace, are con densed by water falling from the cone, and are collected in tae upper water jacket The movable bottom is lower cd, and carries the reduced charge to any point desired"
 Referring to the above, the Mining and Scientific Press, of San Francesca, thus comments,
 It happens, however, that this is not by any means the Fryer process" The patent above mentioned is simply that on the furnace used by Mir. Fryer in inc preliminary steps of the process His cOndcnSIng apparatus is only in tended to catch such fumes as may at tempt to escape, but he does not at tempt to vOlatiliZc all the metals from the gangue, and then coDdense them Instead of using a blower to force draft in his furnace, he uses a steam jet to draw the air through. Instead of using a separate boiler to generate this steam he gets his steam from the water in the water jacket of the furnace There IS nothing of any very great novelty in the general arrangement of the furnace, but the details of con structiOn make it effective for the purs pose for which it is intended.
 So, instead of the patent No, 110, ,625; given above, being the Fryer process, it is simply tlIc furnace used in the stages of the process. The ore is afterwards worked by a peculiar system of dry amalgamatiOn, which has not yet been wade pubic. twill be time enough to pass judgment for or against the process when the details are made public, so that some intelli- gent opinions of it's merits can be fOrni- cd For the present, unfayorable crit icisms are hardly fair, for the hearsay evidence of it's working, (ali most of us have tO judge frOm,) Is undcniably favorable; when it shall transpire that the promoters are endeavoring to swim dle the community, or that their asser- tions are unreliable. t will be time tO expose the game. So long, however, as they pay their way honestly, ask money from no one, put up big works, and do what they say they will, they have a right to a respectful hearing, which should be awarded them.
 We give the matter all the publicity m our power because if tI.i7 T,rooe-.. has any superior virtue, it or any other process or power which will solve the great problem of cheap and thorough working of refractory ore, is what is waited for and sought by thousands of hard workinr men on the ore lodges of these western mineral regions If this process is not what it prstcnds 10 be- we wish also to give il publicity, because it has imposed itself upon the pubic attention, and if fraud we wish ittC he known as such