The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-13
RICHES FOUND in CLAY
EXTRAVAGANT CLAIMS MADE BY AN
INVENTOR AND SCIENTIST.
BENJAMIN Brazelle Asserts He Can
Other Precious Metals.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12.-Benjamin Brazelle,
scientist and inventor, we'll known among
men of his class claims TO have discov-
cred the key to electricity and the TRANSMIT
tation of clay into gold silver, iron, and to
have perfected his discoveries to an extent
that will revoutionize the science of chem
istry. His demonstrations have been SO
satisfactorily as to enlist the Incorporation
of a company by number of leading cap
italists to put them into practical effect
The company has already started its plant
at Fairlawn, in st. Louis county. 1t will
soon be completed and ready, its project
ors assert, to turn out aluminium, cal
cium, gold, silver, iron and many other
metals not known to science, all manufac
tured from common clay. BY actual test,
it is stated, Mr.. BraZelle has changed silver
into gold and gold into silver. The trans
mutation he considers the most insignificant
part of the discoveries he has made-a mere
nothing in comparison with the feat of
changing clay into gold, silver, iron, calci-
UNI, aluminium, glacium and fifteen other
metals not known to science and whose
qualities have not yet been determined by
the diScoverer.
In addition to his ability to convert clay
into any kind of metal, Mr.. Brazele ad-
with life and grow like any plant when
placed under the proper conditions. The
theory is not lacking demonstration, and
mas been proved to the satisfaction of the
scientist and his financial hackers beyond
thte peradventure of doubt. From that
ne deduces that all things in the universe
are endowed with life, and that rocks, min
erals and earth, all apparently inanimate,
that they develop ana die like plants. Mr..
| Brazelle sweeps all present chemical laws
| and axioms out of existence with a know
! ing wave of the hand According to him,
| there Is 10 chemistry as II Is al present
understood. Inc teachers of that science
| have been in error these many hundred
| years, he says, because lhey never went
| ueep enough into the apparent mysteries
| of nature, winch, he CLAIMS, are not mys-
| terieS at all, simply childish problems, easy
1 OF comprehension, IL d person once holds
| the key. That key to the secret 10 all the
phenomena OF the world, Mr. Brazeile says
| he hOluS in his hand. lie says IL Is simply
| the Iuil Understanding ana knowledge OF
| what electricity is. With IL he says he
opens Up the sealed doors which hid the
cause the lightning, the formation OF the
| clouds, the movement or the lldeS. Win
that key, yet undiscovered by such elecI
| trical wizards as Edison and Tesla, Mr..
! Brazelle declares he studied the universe
| and the world.
| Just what electricity is he will not yet
| TtNcSl <ACCOIOluS W there dIS Two
| kinds of eIectriclty-the primary, pure,
| with which man can never hope to deal or
grasp, and the secondary, or commercial.
| which, in conjunction with earthly Things,
| serves mans will Having solved the prob
| lem of what electricity is, MI. Brazelle
| says that the rest was easy. Just how
his knowledge of that evaslve and WON
derful energy led to his other discoveries,
! he will not state. In pursuing his investi-
| cation Mr. Brazelle says he found that ma
| ture knows no color and that all metals
are primarily white, like silver. In his
| crucible tube. he says he has treated clay
| and has created fifteen new metals and ali
| the known ones. His Investigations led
| him to the conclusion, ii is asserted, that
there are but three primary metals-copper,
/ lead and iron-which cannot be resolved
| into compound parts. The accepted chem
| iStry teaches that there are seventy five
| simple or primary metals which cannot be
| reduced TO parts.
| Take goio, for example. 1t is considered
| a primary metal. No acid, it is held, will
| dissolve IL except aqua regia. Yet MIR.
| Brazelle says he finds gold Is compound
and not a simple substance 1t is made
| up. he declares, OF TWO unknown Quanti-
| ties. There IL so per cent. of one, which
| he terms TX and 20 per cent. of the other,
which he terms TX. The TX will not dissolve
| in aqua rega. and 10 other known acid
| when separated. In composition they take
| on the hue of gold.
| The company organized to make practi-
| cal use of thte startling discoveries will at
| the beginning confine Itself to the pianu-
| facture of aluminium. which is valuable;
| calcium, which commands $1,000 per pC.-
| glacium, which sells at $50 pound, and
Zorium, of the new metals which
| MIR. Brazelle thinks is destined to take the
| place OF steel.