Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-22
cuIoAao's GOLD MAKER.
Max sohr visits the Factory and Expresses
Great Confidence In Brico's Operations.

Great Confidence In Isrico's Operations.
Max Sohr who has recently returned
from Chicago where he witnessed II. &.
Brice's operations in the manufacture
of gold, comes back with positive
insurance that the remarkable under
taking has been solved and that here
after the government and all other IN
stitutions in need of the yellow metal
need only to apply to the Chicago gem
tleman to have their wants fully sat
isfied.
Mr.. Sohr is the man from whom the
remarkable alchemist gets his anti
mony, and he has contracts from the
Chicago firm to furnish them with the
product at the rate of 80 tons week
for period of 1--WE years. This anti
mony is shipped from southern Utah
and mines In Nevada on the southern
Pacific railroad. These properties, says
Mr.. Sohr, are fully equal to the task
and will report weekly with the re-
quste number of tons to keep the
Chicago gold-factory in operation day
and night. The mineral contains a
trace of lead and G9.6l per cent anti
mony, and in this state, in connection
with Mr. Brlces secret formula. the
product IL converted into gold by being
| subjected to very enormous heat
Brice claims that gold is not an ele-
ment, but that 1t is produced through
conjunction with other metals. all of
which are heated to O. very great de-
gree while lying in the earth. The al
chemists method, therefore, Is to bring
these metals together-and he thinks
he has most of them in the anthony
and put them, 70 the heating test that
Is furnished by the earth, then he has
the gold.
Mr. Sohr spent 40 hours In the Chi
oago factory, and he pronounces pres
| ent operations far beyond the expert
mental stage. That the gold is manu-
featured, says he, is clearly in evidence
from the fact that the government has
already purchased supply, paying
therefor $50 an ounce, while the firm
making II has also made sales to the
National Smelling and Refining com
pany, the same figure being realized
SO great is the confidence in the manu-
facture OF the gold, that in one night
the stock of the National Metallurgical
company went from ssS to $3.50 share.
and at present 1t can't be purchased
| even at the latter figure.
The anthony, says Mr.. Sohr. Is first
turned into bullion. In this state it Is
worth $1,S36 ton. Then 1t is sub
| jected to heat of 5000 degrees for
60 hours, after which the refined gold
| makes its appearance and sells readily
| at $40 an ounce Brice's workings
are being eagerly watched by capital
| lists from different parts of the globe,
and while Mr.. Sohr was on the ground,
| the Chicago firm was approached by
to take the entire output of the factory
| for an indefinite period. at the figure
paid by the United States government.
| This proposition, however, was not ac-
cepted by Mr.. Brice, the gentleman
| feeling assured that the United States
had a ready market for the product,
without shipping 1t across the water.
1t is said that to make the gold the
cost to its manufacturers is but So an
ounce. thus giving them a clear profit
| of $1f on every ounce that Is turned
out. From car of anthony con-
tanning 90 tons, $4,000 worth of gold
is realized. and as the factory uses up
two and half cars every week. the
weekly output is thus ploced at Sf0.-
900. in the factory from Is to 20 men
are employed and the utmost secrecy
abounds as to the exact nature OF the
gold making operation. The expert
| ments of Mr.. Brice have covered u
period of some years and 1t now looks
as though digging for gold had been
| supplanted by more modern method,
that of manufacturing 1t.
Max Sohr Is not only indirectly in
terested in the manufacture of gold,
but he has other means by which he
realizes Il source Of revenue. While
in the East he sold 5000 tons of plum
bago, used In the manufacture OF lead
pencils. axel grease, stove polish, etc.
600 tons OF china clay. used for max
ing chinaware; two cars of elaterite
also uSefuI IN manufactures, Two cars
of mica for making axle grease. and
also picked up orders for sulphur. red
oxide and other materials, all taken
from Utah's hills and highly useful
in the manufacturing line. The red
oxide is used for making paints and
viii be shipped to an Omaha factory
with which Mr.. sob" Is connected.
- -aEss@z2zl1(1d
bound for X ,ndiiSe.
w. C. Collins, Lem Broughton, II, NJ
Delano, Chas. Stenson and A. NJ. Rob
ertson, left this week for prospectus
trip to the Alaskan gold fields. TIL
party is headed by Mr.. Collins. who II
n miner and prospector OF wide expert
ence, and will make n success of tn
expedition IL II Is possible to do II
: They are backed financially by HON
parties. They will ride through witt
pack animals to the coast and be read
= to leave for the north at the earlies
, possible time In the spring. Mr.. Col
= Inns has promised 20 write us and in
form the readers of the Times throug
these columns of their progress an
prospects--Grand Valley Times.
I Rich Gold Deposits Overlooked.
An illustration of how easy 1t is f.
prospectors to unwittingly run owe
- rich gold deposits and also demon
y strating that 1t takes years to find IL
W there is in n country, says an eS
change was made manifest in a dis