Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-09-12

pounding reduces the gravel to dust and
II soon becomes a flour II is now mixed
with salt by means Of machine ~ aud
then carried by an elevator, made IKE
that which carries the flour IN NIL, 10
the top OF furnace and dropped into
the flames. This furnace u so arranged
that the orc dust mixed with SAT- lails
down In millions OF dust'likc PARTICLES,
The furnace Is thirty.ninc feet deep. IL
Is filled with flames, and It Is Kept NJ
such a heat that the ore ~ roasted Dut
not melted, by the time Il tails TO inc
bottom In falling the salt brings about
a chemical action by which the ore has
been changed from sulphidc TO = chloD
tide OF silver, the only fOrm in which II
can be acted upon by the mercury,
which is to suck the silver out OF the
rock Alter falling to the bottom the
ore Is drawn from the furnace and plcd
up on the floor outside, and lett there
Tor about twenty hours, during which
this chemical action Is perfected. When
! entered this furnace room ] saw per
haps a dozen Of these great piles 81 ore
They did not seen. to be hot, and ihey
looked for all the world like piles OF
sanl. They appeared. indeed, so invil'
ing. that, uoy.likc, ] was tempted TO
lump into them. The manager, how
ever pulled me back and, handing me
loug.hanjlcd shovel, told the to sur the
sand. ! did 30. and saw that It was red
hot ore. Putting your finger INTO It
would be like sticking II into molten
lead. The yellow crust was Of the thick
ness OF paper. while all beneath was OF
the temperature Of the Shadnch, Me
schach and Abedncgo furnace.
riE woNpERs oF QUICKSILVER.
After the silver.beating sand has thus
lain Tor twenty hours d Is ready for It's
marriage to the quicksilver. The union
OF the two metals makes me think OF the
prince who broke through the hedge
and kissed into life the princess who had
been sleeping for hundred years II IS
the quicksilver prince, In TACT, who Kisses
the sleeping silvcr.ore maiden into life
and carries her away from her palace OF
rock IN which she has been locked for
ages. Alter the sand has cooled II Is
carried into what Is known as the pan
room. aud Is thrust into great pans OF
/ iron, each OF which holds about 5000
pounds. Water 10 introduced, and the
pans seem tillcd with a thick brown
mush. Nov into each OF them through
a little pipe Is poured 500 pounds OF
] quicksilver, and stirring machinery Is
| set to work which moves about through
/ the ore, mixing the quicksilver with II.
| The sand was warm aud the quicksilver
/ by the warmth becomes active, and by
/ the mixing divides into globules the size
/ oil the point Of a pin or needle. The
/ mixers shove these about at the rate OF
/ sixty revolutions minute and send
| these little globules dying about through
/ the sand, As they 10 they seek out the
/ particles Of silver. They seem to be
come alive. aud each globulc which
touches an atom Of silver embraces IL,
and with amorous lips sucks II out oi the
sand. This travelling OF the globules OF
quicksilver Is kept up for eight hours, at
the end OF which time all OF the silver
In the sand has come into contact with
and been absorbed by the quicksilver.
The two metals have uniled, and the
marriage Is complete. The QUICKSILVER
is nov taken out Of the sand by drawing