The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-03-07
EDISON THE WIZARD.
THE GREAT ELECTRICIAN AND
HIS WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES.

II Z UnEAl ELES1 hlC1AN AND
HIS WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES.
He Comes to North Carolina With His
New Process for Treating Rebellious
Gold Bearing Ores.
Especial Cor. of fDAILY STATE CHRoNICLE.1
SALISBURY, n. c., March 4, 1S9O.-Be-
ing in Charlotte some days ago l sought
an introduction to Mr. THos. A. EDISON,
who ha. been sojourning there for seve-
raj weeks. had no difficulty in meet
ing him. Unlike most men of great re-
nown, there is little or no reserve about
where he happens to be. found him
in his Office, on Trade St., rapidly but
carefully going thrugh a great pile of
morning mail. When l advanced he
looked up, extended hand as soft as a
woman's, and shot a welcome out of a
pair of keen, bright eyes that made me
feel perfectly composed. And yet was
in the presence of the most wonderful
man who has lived in this nineteenth
century.
Mr.. Edison is what most people would
call a handsome man, with a full, we'll
rounded genial face, with neither beard
nor mustache to hide good natured
smile that seems perfectly at home
there; bright, expressive eyes, in
which 2 merry twinkle seems also
at hoTJ; high forehead, fringed
around with clusters of iron gray hair
No, | am not describing woman; a
great man, a man whom the world
knows is great! He looks to be about
35 years of age, but am told that there
are five or six years that have passed
without leaving any furrows behind
them. He dresses, not in the height of
fashion, but with degree of neatness
that is attractive. He moves about, not
nervously, but rapidly, and talks in an
unreserved manner that makes you think
that "here is a man who has no Sc
crets." Indeed the exposing or un-
earthing of secrets seems to be
his peculiar work. He tears down the
walls that nature built around her Sc
crets thousands of years ago and bids
an advanced civilization look in and be
even further advanced.
He walks about in an electrical world
of wonders and makes this mighty cur
rent do his bidding. With the telephone
he enables two hemispheres to converse
with each other. With the dynamo he
makes currents of electricity chase each
other over wires until they break into 6
halo Of illumination that turns darkness
} into daylight. He wraps the eloquenct
; of the stat tesman, the logic of the divine
; or the rhyme of the poet aroun(
the cylinder Of the phonograph. bottles
it up and sends it across States or coun
3 tries to be reproduced in it's exact origi
nal tone and phraseology.
t These are among his greatest inven
t tions. He has just completed another
] and this last is what brings him to Mort
7 Carolina. 1t is machine with which
S by electrical powers, he proposes to ex
e tract gold from rebellious ores.
u In North Carolina, especially in thi
e southwestern mineral belt, are great de
+ posits Of the precious metal imbedded i
e large veins of heavy sulphides q
e iron. Sulphur and gold to use
common expression, are very niue
stuck on each other and, hitherto, a
attempts to seperate them successful
;, have been practical failures. So man
attempts have been made in this dire,
ton, and so many processes have bee
Z unsuccessfully tested that a real, SUI
u cessful and practical method seemed
oi be all impossibility. Here was anothe
s opportunity Tor Edison's genius to a
< sert itself. He seems to delight in d,
g. ing impossibilitieS. Twelve years az
III | ho
v, chine. He has been testing it Il
y eight years and now pronouIces it pc
II feet. Anybody knows what that mean
He has never yet made a failure, ar
Oh this will doubtless be one of his gran
lg est successes. He comes to North Car
IT, lima not to test his machine as son
ae have an idea-nor to sell his process
50 but to buy mineral property and 60
~ work. Il is "presto change" as to t
70 testing business Hitherto the machin
az have been tested by the ore, now t
es ore is to be tested by the machine T
30 process is perfect, so says n
- Edison, and all he wants is &C
w bearing sulphur ore sufficient to ke
~ the machine going. These North Cal
oe lima ores are going to stand the te
They are here in great quantities, a
in my opinion the development of tt
one of our many great dominant
-. sources is going to be immense. @
ira old State welcomed Mr.. Edison, and
ought to feel hattered that he came b.
first after testing ores from all over
bic country.
1,o on The mining boom continues to ra
ba on and systematic work is beginning
aro about. Wonderful discoveries are
ot sulting from stimulated prospecting, q
var u a real genuine boom in North Carol
om mining seems to be coming. | SAL
90 % gold nugget yesterday taken from
mines at Biiesvillc, in Stanly county,
,so which Capt. H. A. Judd is superinte
nn1 Te ent, that weighed over three poun
-; With Mr.. Edison to work the sulphura
voc m and with the systematic organizat
of money and brains to look for
oil nuggets and work the free milling o
49, the southwestern mineral section of
ia Old North State is going to ''get up
,ro, git"
Success to the DAILY STATE CHR
GLE CHR. o. NICLl
Talking for Political Effect.
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