Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-03-02

he was confident; and, he tord his
friend. Wallace, that he had succeed
ed and California was to be their
future field of usefulness.
With that boldness ever character
istic of confidence, Fryer and Wal
lace came West little over year
ago and selected Grass Valley as their
point of experience. That region was
noted for its refractory ores, and
there it seemed was the proper place
for them to practically solve the ques-
ton If triumph or defeat. A locality
midway between Grass Valley and
Nevada City was chosen, land was
purchased, buildings were erected
and from that time till now Mi.
Fryer has gradually purchased hall
a mile square of land around his
works, indicating in very practical
way his company's confidence in the
future. There has been everything
about him denoting a determination
to carry into practical operation what
he had discovered, and, what had
been exceedingly pleasant for him,
he has never had to ask aly person
for the use of cen. in coin or credit.
The company with which he is asso-
ciated had every confidence in his
good Judgment and integrity, as well
AS in his genius, and with an excel
lent bank account at his command
he has been able to ''take his time"
and demonstrate to his fullest salts
faction that his study of the treat
ment of ores was not to end in theory,
Hence, he has not yet said word to
the public and will not till he is fully
ready.
Probably no invention has ever
been waited for with such anxiety as
this Fryer process" and correspond
ingly with that anxiety there some
times has been an unreasonable i'm
patience among miners to have Mr..
FRYER publish what he has accom-
plished; but he has always very good
naturally answered that, while he
could not but be pleased with the
public interest in his labors, he was
not quite ready to open his ''reduc-
tion works" to the public gaze, and
as he was asking nothing from any
one it seemed reasonable that he
should have the direction of his own
actions. The simple truth is that the
want of such process or some pro-
cess for the reduction of "rebellious"
or refractory" ores is so universally
felt that the first intimation of what
Mr.. Fryer proposed awakened every
body who had a dead or abandoned
mine to the sudden anticipation Of
unlocked for wealth, and that fortune
was near at hand. With necessities
pressing upon them, many on the
ragged edge" have exclaimed
"Why does not Fryer hurry upl
Come out and tell US what it is"
To a very few honorable gentle
men, not half a dozen in number, in
the immediate vicinity of the works
Mr.. Fryer has been free to speak OF
his process and to exhibit his ma
chinery in full play; bur as he had
not secured all his foreign patents
those gentlemen have confined them
selves to the simple statement that
the Fryer process was, in their judg
ment, "a grand success" The writer
with no other interest save that Of
journalism, sought permission tt
visit the works and was accorded the
fullest liberty to examine, to inquire
and 20 make himself thoroughly &C
quainted with the "process" invented
by Mr.. Fryer. and he was so highly
gratified with what he witnessed there
that he left with the utmost assurance
that there was revolution in mining
near at hand.
II would be breach of good faitl
to publish now what the process is
Mr.. Fryer expects to be in San Fran
cisco within the next ten days ant
then he may be fully ready to speal
or authorize the publication OF al
that miners want to know; in thu
meantime those who have interest,"
in mining properties that have hith
erto defed the established methods
of reduction may rest assured that thu
Fryer process is thorough and will
certainly release the noble metal
from the grasp of the base metals a
an extraordinarily small cxpenditur
and save everything that is wortl
saving, and the great charm Of hi
process is the fact that any intelligen
miner in the country can comprehend
the whole of it in half day and "pu
il through" as well as the east edu
Gated mining engineer from Fret
hu>s,-witj, aven Olassps on his face