Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-12-09
THE lueeEn couNTERFE!TERs.
Contents Of the Captured Box-Recipes for
Preparing Mstals--Hsaring Before U. s,
Oommssion.r Whiting.

terfeiters O'Rourke and Graham,
referred to in our account of the ar
rest in Sunday mornings HERALD,
was found at the railroad depot and
had been shipped to James Brown,
Palisades, Nevada. 1t was opened
by Chief King, on Sunday morning,
and was found to contain q small
ladle or crueible for melting and
pouring the metal, ratchet wise
for holding the dies, small box
containing files, drills, cold chisels,
reamers and other tools necessary
in the manufacture of coin and a
full set of Troy weights. 1t also
contained three cakes of metal
about fifty pounds-one large and
two smaller ones, the former COM
posed of Babbitt metal and the
small ones of composition pre-
pared for coinage. I'm bedded in
the latter, and completely covered
by the metal, were five dies, two
for half dollars, two for half eagles
and one upon which no denomina-
ton of coin had been impressed.
| On Graham's person, in addition
| to the coin spoken of in our Sun
| days account, a number of deeds
and other valuable papers were
found and memorandum book,
from which we copy the following
recipes for the composition of
metals and alloys, only suppress
ing the names of the metals Used:
APHTHITE.
Some very beautiful alloys appli-
cable as substitutes for gold and
silver in the manufacture of jewell
ry and similar purposes by Messrs.
Mutfren & Co., of Marseilles. To
make an alloy having the color and
appearance of gold, they place in a
crucible -, as pure as possible,
= and tartaric acid in the pro-
portions below stated, and when
the metals are completely melted,
they stir and granulate them by
running them into water contain
| ing 500 grammes of Stacked lime
and 500 grammes of carbonate of
soda for every cubic meter of water.
This mixture, dissolved in water,
has the property of rendering
the alloy still pnrer. They
then collect the granulated
metal, dry it, and after having
melted it in crucible, they add a
certain quantity of fine gold in the
proportion hereinafter specified.
An alloy Is thus produced which,
run into ingots, presents the ap-
pearance in color of red gold of the
standard of from $50 to 1000, and
to which may be applied the name
of Aphthite or ''unalterable." f"
They can change the color of the
alloy by changing the proportions
of the different metals. AS fiuX
they use borax and nitric acid and
chloride of lime, previously mixed
together in equal proportions. The
proportion of fiux to be employed
is % grammes per kilogramme of
the alloy. The proportions they
employ by preference for producing
an alloy OF red gold color are, -,
500 grammes; =, 25 grammes;
tartaric acid 10, and gold 10
grammes.
sIDERAPHITE.
The alloy used in imitation ofsll-
yer consists of - 63 parts = 90 parts
A parts; aluminium parts and
copperas parts. The metals are
melted together and then granulat-
ed, as in the case of the gold alloy,
except that, in this instance, the
water into which the mixture is
run contains one kilogramme of
Stacked lime, and one kilogramme
of carbonate of soda per cubic me-
tire. Care should be taken during
the meeting to cover the metals
contained in the two crucibles
with fux, composed of one part of
nitric acid to one part of nitrate OF
silver. In the crucible containing
the aluminium and = they place a
lump of soda of about two grammes
weight when treating five kilo-
grammes of the three metals to-
gether to prevent accidation. They
also add charcoal to prevent oxida-
tion of the copper. Before granula-
ton the metal in each crucible
should be we'll stirred with fire.
clay stirrer.
The granulated metals are dried,
as in the former case, then melted
together in the same crucible in
the proportion indicated and we'll
stirred, after which the alloy is run
into ingots. The alloy thus OBJ.
tanned, which may be given the
name of Sideraphthite, or un-
chsngeable iron, presents the same
white appearance as platinum or
silver, and is not more expensive
than German silver. These i'm
proved metallic alloys are capable
of resisting the action of sulphur
eted hydrogen; are unattached by
vegetable acids, and but slightly
attacked by mineral acids. They
are also perfectly ductile and mall
leable.
GALvANIZING WITHOUT A BAT
Terry.
Dissolve cyanide of aluminium,
one ounce, in pure rain water, one
pint, to which add one drachm of
the chloride of gold, and it is ready
for use.
The recipe for galvanizing with
out a battery was copied on a sheet
of note paper enclosed in the men,
orandum book, and with 1t were
recipes for compounding the fol-
| ln nyipor Einda of liuuora. Rpntifiad
| whisky, Cognac brandy, Holland
gin, Scotch whisky, cider, Port
wine, claret, and sweet Malaga.
The other enclosures of the pocket
book were the picture of a young
woman and fine-tooth comb.
There were memoranda of names,
locations and figures and calcula-
tions of various kinds on the leaves
of the pocketbook. but nothing can
| be made of them except by the