The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08
considerablv used in newspaper work and

considerably used in newspaper work and
we may have newspaper monographs in
the future, and newspaper pictures may be
sent from one part of the country to the
other by electricity"
will it ever be possible, Mr.. Edison"
said 1, ''to take the page Of newspaper as
set up in New York and telegraph such
photograph Of it to the other great cities of
the country as could be placed at once on
an etching plate and one setting up in this
way do for the whole country"
MIR. Edison thought for moment and
then said, Eyes, that could be done though
don't know whether it would be profitable
and the day may also come when mau sit
ting at typesettlng machine in New York
may by tapping the keys of typewriter
set up the press dispatches by means of
similar machines in every newspaper Office
of the United States. There is no doubt
but this could be done now and when we
have perfect typesetting machines our
press photographers can do the setting up of
their own dispatches
THE IRON FIELDS OF NEW JERSEY.
Mr.. Edison's new processes Of iron re-
duction have brought a vast deal of new
ore into the market. Himself and his part
ners have secured miles of iron territory in
the mountains near his home and Mr.. Ed
son says there are sixty million dollars
taken by the company was for 100, 600 tons
of ore at five dollars per ton, and he tells
me that they can produce some of the finest
iron to be gotten in the United States right
here within an hour OF New York. They
not only can produce it, but are producing
IL, and they have enough ore before them
to last many years. He showed me an in
strument for determining where iron is. 1t
was shaped like a compass and a needle
re- fi0nrac al oh
acter of the magnetic ore below it. This is
known by the dip of the needle and Mr..
Edison's surveyors now make maps of min
ing countries and tell just about where the
veins of iron are located. l saw such
map of country in Michigan and it located
with certainty the various deposits. There
is no doubt but there is big fortune in
these New Jersey iron mines. They have
been worked for years but heretofore the
rock had to contain fifty per cent. of iron
or it was no good BY Edison's process if
it contains twenty five per cent. 1t pays
well.
EDIsoN's NEW ELECTRIC ROAD.
Before L left looked at Mr. Edison's
street railroad upon which be is working.
The car and track are in the yard sur
rounding the laboratory and the invention
understand is ready for use. 1t is in
tended for large cities which will not per-
nit the use of the overhead wire. 1t will
be much cheaper than the cable but will be
more expensive than the trolley SYSTEM
and it may be used on regular railroad as
well as on street car. Its Locomotive will
have one thousand horse power and it will
take up the electricity from a rail which
runs along through the centre of the track
and between the two rails on which the
cars move. 1t will not be expensive to put
down and Mr.. Edison says the streets will
not have to be torn up as they are for the
cable. He belives it will be the street rail
way for cities of the near future and says
he is making the invention for Mr. Willard.
THE STOMACH A CHEMICAL LABORATORY.
| AS we talked in this way running rapidly
! from one subject to another my wonder as
to MIR. Edison's wonderful vitality in
! creased. AS I said above though he had
had only six hours sleep in seventy-two
he showed no signs of WEAKNESS and his
health seemed to be perfect. What man OF
| flfty-tw who reads this paper could act
and feel fresh after tbirty-six hours out OF
bed9 Edison is fifty two and he looks as
though he would live to be hundred. Said
he in response to my question:
~ feel that am in my prime and l sup
pose am better man than [ have ever
been. have the knowledge and experience
of the past to go upon and don't know
why [ should not do good work for the flu
ture"
"How about your stomach said L
'Thomas Carlyle you know says he did moi
know he had stomach until he was twenty
two. How about youl' Do you know tina
you have stomach"
"Yes,n replied Mr.. Edison with laugh
~ am like Carlyle in that have discovered
the fact | find that l have indigestion
sometimes but I can easily cure myself. :.
do this by change of diet. The stomach i.
chemical laboratory and digestion il
merely chemical operation. If find tina
my stomach is not working rightly [ know
that the right cemical action is not goins
on inside of it and l change my food. If
> have been eating meat | drop flesh foods al
together and contine myself to vegetables
End in short time l find myself all right
If I've been eating more vegetables thar
meat drop the vegetables and the mea
brings me back to my normal state.''
How do you get along with so littl,
sleepg" | asked.
81 don't believe" said Mr.. Edison, "tha
man needs as much sleep as is general,
supposed l think we sleep too much ant
eat too much. Six hours or six and hal
are plenty for me and / seldom take more
If | sleep eight hours find that after break
fast want to 60 to sleep again, wherea
five houIs puts me in splendid condition
and am ready for anything. l inherit
, good constitution. My grandfather live
to more than hundred years of age an
, my father is ninety two. Neither of then
/ were long sleepers, and L think sleep ate
all is more of matter of habit than any
thing else, and that in the far future If W
should have an artificial light which would
make the world like day year in and yea
J out we would never sleep at all.
! This remark concluded ourinterview an
after walk with MIR. Edison through hi
laboratory l drove to the station pas
Llewellyn park where Mr.. Edison has on
of the most beautiful country residences i
i New Jersey. Here simple and unpretenti
}, Gus he lives comfortably with his famil
devoting the most OF his time to his lit
5 work of invention. His greatest happiues
: he tells me comes from his work and anon
the milIionaires Of to-day his life stand
q out as lesson for the young men of rh
. future. FRANK G. CARPENTR.
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