The Red Cloud chief., 1897-10-08
GOLD FROM SILVER.
A Scientist Sells Uncle sam Cold Made
Out Of Mexican Dollars.

W W " t'hu pOtthFss
WAsBrSoToS, Oct. Among the
callers at the Office OF the director OF
the mint to-day was DIR. stephen II.
Emmens OF New Brighton. staten
Island, N. Y. The doctor has discov.
cred a process by which he is able Ia
extract gold from Mexican silver dol
lars at "A profit, and the object OF his
visit was simply to pay his respects to
Director Preston, who is one of his
best customers.
The doctor is an eminent scientist,
and when he produced letters from
such men "a Professor William Crookes.
the inventor OF Crookes tubes, and
Henri de Parville OF Paris, editor of
La Nature, showing that they re-
gardcd him rs u great discoverer in
the domain of science, Mr.. Preston
treated his visitor with the highest
consideration.
DIR. Emmens has a laboratory on
Staten Island, where he converts Mex
lean silver dollars into gold. he calls
the prod uct argentaurum gold, whicl,
ne sells to the United States assay
~ III W" t'Ih NlNN Ut @lb ItI
ounce. He deposited the first iugot at
the assay office last April, which as.
sayed Sl3 to the ounce and for which
he received $685.. Since that time he
has deposited thirteen ingots OF about
the Same ~tineness, for which he has
received sums OF money ranging from
$3.50 to sass. He called the directors
attnntiAn ~ .1,. .Iut.. - a.. l..r....
deposits, and Mr.. Preston was able to
verify tho statements made by the Wis.
itor by referring to the records.
After DR.. Emmens had taken his de.
parture Mr.. Preston said:
II do not know what to think about
DR.. Emmens or his process Of convert
ing silver into gold. The returns
from the assay Office in New York
show that the doctor has been selling
gold to the government since last
April. He has sod altogether about
5000 worth. At first he deposited
only two ingots, or about twenty
ounces per month. In August he de-
posted four ingots having a total
weight OF seventy ounces. He depos-
tied three ingots in September weigh.
ing eighty ounces. lie told me that
he made this gold from Mexican silver
dollars and that it vas produced at u
profit of about 25 per cent"
The doctor Is a cripple and for pur-
poses of locomotion uses an invalid's
roller chair.
Il do not claim that | produce gold
from silver in the strict sense of the
EXPRESSION" he said Il little sharply.
MY process is a scientific one and I
am perfectly willing to answer any
inquiries concerning il that do not in
volve n revelation of the method Of
treating the metal. l think there is
but one matter in the universe aud
the chemical elements are only modes
of this universal substance. There is
no such thing as transmutation in the
alchemical sense, but there NAV be a
Encouragement of the molecules. Tho
only difference between gold and sill.
yer Is a difference in specific gravity.
use Mexican dollars because I find
that | get better results from them.
Briefly described, my n ess of treat.
ment is as follows:
IL take a Mexican dollar and dis
pose of it in an apparatus which will
prevent expansion or hos' 1t is then
subjected to heavy, rapid and contin.
nous beating under conditions of cold
such rs to prevent even n temporary
rise OF temperature, when the blows
are struck Tests made from hour to
hour show that the material is grad
ually being transformed into gold"
Director Preston is not disposed TO
regard DIR. Emmens as an imposter.
The books show that the doctor has
been selling gold to the government
and 1T is fair to presume that he is not
doing so ut a pecuniary loss TO him.
self. But Mr.. Preston believes that
when the doctor begins to operate on
u large scale the demand for silver
will send the Drice nm IN m noipt