The Arizona sentinel., 1890-10-11
Alumi The Conf ng
 Metal.

IAilIA Sc-OA UuC pISU; dIlO Hdl LII J uS6
 in the metal worked. The presen
 century should and may see this
 revolution in the use of the bas
 metal, but the coming century vii
 not be far advanced, when every
 thing made of metals will be man.
 ufactured from Aluminnium o
 some of its compounds or compo-
 sitions. The change has been iron
 iron to steel. The new jump will
 be from steel to Aluminium. Tn
 reign of steel Is over. It is too
 blittle, too weak for it's cost and
 weight. Aluminnium will soon ust
 it worse than steel has done ul iron. A metal, like Aluminium which possesses the color of gold silver, purpole or bronze, which never tarnishes or changes color under any circumstances, that the chlorine gas ofthe saltest sea wa e :, that the strongest acids change no more than they do gold, that pos sessed four times the strength of the best German Spring steel, one fourth its weight, is as malle- able and ductile as the finest of gold, offers to the metal world ad- which the locomotive, bridge and ship builders, the ma chinist and artisan, who ever works in metal, which they cannot over look and which they are obliged too heed even to-day. A metal beautiful as gold or silver, out of which the most ponderous steam locomotive, propeller shafting for the largest ocean steamers founderies, factories and manufactories, the heaviest guns and cannons, pistols, saws, razors, knives, forks, spoons, cups saucers plates, pots, kettles, stew
 -,---~--rrvor urru rHrTTage, trTm- lngs, buttons, combs and brushes and in fact everything metal from ! pin or needle up to the heaviest 'annon, or the pondcrous boilers md engines of the City of P3ris" 'r the "Etruria" as we'll as the hips themselves, cannot be igaor i.
 The cost of production is the only hstacle that has stood in it's way hus far. Formerly it cost $22.00 er pound. To-day is costs sixty ents per pound, with the probabi- | ty that within six months it will ! e sold for ten cents per pound.
 When Woehler the Great Ger i nan Chemist, discovered this metal l 1917, he little thought that the resent century would make his tile globule of white metal of such importance and value.
 Prof. Webster after his twenty ve years of hard work in his oratory at Birmingham and here he spent $250,00O in expert ents built better than he knew, r from aprice almost equal to , 'ld, 1t fell to with in the reach of ing made into hundreds of useful . ticles. It is as cheap now at sixty cents | T pound, as steel is at fifteen nts. When 1t falls to ten cents :.
 is cheaper than steel at ? per und. It is the most abundant . etal in the world. It can be made
 m every bank of clay that con- =. = ms no iron. Its principle source the present time, it alum. The ', ,at beds of Potassa alum is the " lrce from which thousands of 1 IS of Aluminium can be produ-
 ]. Such deposits are found near e in Lower California. The at banks of pure white clay nd along the sea shore on the {l {85 ;lfic coast, can also be used for ns or producing the metal. $.
 It's production electricity has ou en the place of sodium thus so " W atly reducing the cost of pro- n. wi ing it. w he best sciencifc minds in both wc
 old and new worlds are busiIy tn work on new processes and me- GU ds for producing if. tn he time isnear at hand, in fact S'' 'ur very doors when all the sels aaoat will be built of it. y will require only one fourth ful draught of water at present, Pg Bg' ,n all of the metal about them Ar