Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1885-06-24
INTRODUCING 4 NEW INDUSTRY.
A Scientists Invention for Extracting
Aluminium from Clay.
New York Times

A Scientists Invention for Extracting
Aluminium from Clay.
New York Tines
Important facts bearing on the extrac.
ton of aluminium from kaolin clay on a
commercial basis have been developed in
Cleveland, ohio, within the past few
weeks, Aluminium has long been known
rs the metaic basis OF clay but in its ma.
lure IL is so ethereal that heretofore its
elimination has been attended with great
difficulty and much expense. Within the
past few years, however, French and
English inventors have obtained results
more or less important, 50 that the pres
ent importing price of aluminium In this
country. duty Tree. Is Sl4.25 a pound In
England a man named Webster estab.
lished very large works for the manu-.
facture VI articles from the new metal.
but the cost of the production has rs yet
limited its use merely 10 tableware and
small utensils for household use The
problem now is TO devise method uf cX
traction which shall reduce the cost to
from - 10 - per pound, at which Inquire
II eau lie used for great variety uf man.
ufacturCs, such as gun barrels propeller
blades, wire, and possibly bridge and
railroad works
As aluminium is four times lighter than
silver and three times lighter than iron, il
non-oxilizabc, of great Ienacity aud
strength. duClilC. and of superior electric
cOnductivity, and is. moreover. very
widely diffuscd throughout the country
appearing in all ordinary clay banks, but
more particularly in the immense deposits
OF kaolin in 0nnecticut, New YORK,
Virginia, and Georgia, and in ycr.iable
mountain OF sulphale Of alumina H. New
Meyico-the importance Of the present
search for cheap method of production
is apparent. Aluminium will bear several
tons more strain than gun metal and
much more than Bessemer steel 10 also
possesses sOnorous qualities superior to
those Of any other metal and alloys beau.
tifully with almost any known metal
When the secret Of its cheap production
is generally known a revolution in the
metal world will be the GER ain result
a Philadelphia chemist named Fries.
muth about Il year ago announced the
discovery of very cheap method, but il
has remained for Ileveland parties 10
bring the much. desired end nearer praCti.
cal accomplishment than ever before. Mr.
+. j. Seymou'. well known practical
muiallurgisi ate of Bridgeport, onn.,
has, as the resail Of years of study, sue.
cceded IN prOdu ing aluminium at low
figure Of cost, and by the aid of a novel
furnace, Just designed. asserts that he can
extract tie metal on commercial basis
and In large quantities Not 10 go into
all The technical details, which are eX.
iremely interesting TO meiallurgists, 1t is
su ciept a. say that Mr.. Seymour has dis.
covered that the close affinity existing be.
tween zinc md nj minimum can lie utilized
in vaporizing, capturing, and deposit.
ing the latter. the separation being ef.
tcctcd by the application u heat through
furnace. or rather series Of furnaces.
Of peculiar construction.
Capitalists have already manifested an
interest in this new process, and the pros.
poets are that operations on an extensive
scale will soon follow. Independent in.
vCstigations in the same line Ia this city
have resulted In the recent Incorporation
Of company with ample capital for the
extraction of aluminium 10y means OF
electricity Thus far the secret Of the
process has been strictly guarded. and
nothing can therefore be given n 10 its
details