The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-13
FIND RICHES IN CLAY.
Missourian Asserts 1t Can Be Trans
formed Into Precious Metals

AormeU INTO Precious Metals.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 12.-Benjamin Bra
zelle. scientist and inventor, we'll
known among men of his class, claims
TO nave discovered the key to electri-
city and the tranSmutation of clay into
sold. silver, iron. and to have perfect
ed his discoveries to an extent that
Will reVolutiOnize the science of chem
istry.
His demonstrations have been so sat-
lstactory as to enlist the Incorporation
CT company by number Of leading
capitalists to put them into practical
erect. The company has already start
ed its plant at Fairlawn, in ST. Louis
county. 1t will soon be completed and
ready, Its projectors assert, to turn out
aluminium, calcium, gold, silver. iron
and many other metals not known to
science, all manufactured from COM
on clay
By actual test, it is stated. Mr.. Bra
zelle has changed silver into gold and
sold into silver. The transmutation 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
calcium, aluminium, glacium and fiji
teen 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. Bra
Zelle advances the theory that metals
are endowed with life and grow like
any plant when placed under the prop
er conditions. The theory is not lacking
demonstration, and has been proved to
the satisfaction of the scientist and his
financial hackers beyond the perad-
venture of doubt
From that he deduces that all things
in the universe are endowed with life,
and that rocks, minerals and earth, all
apparently inanimate, are full of life,
energy and growth and that they de-
velop and die like plants.
Mr.. Brazelle sweeps all present chem
fcal laws and axioms cut of existence
with a knowing wave of the hand
According to him there is no shemistry
as it is at present understood The
teachers of that science have been in
error these many hurf1red years he
says, because they never went deep
enough into the apparent mysteries of
nature, which. he claims are not mys-
teries at all. simply childish problems,
easy of comprehension, if person once
holds the key.
That key to the secret of all the phe-
nomena Of the world, Mr.. Brazelle says
he holds in his Isand. He says it is
simply the full understanding and
knowledge of what electricity is. With
it he says he opens UP the sealed doors
which hid the cause of the lightning,
the formation of clouds, the movement
of the tides. With that key, yet undis-
covered by such electrical wizards as
Edison and Tesla, Mr.. Brazelle declares
he studied the universe and the world.
Just what electricity is he will not
yet reveal According to him. there
are two kinds of electricity-the pri-
mary. or 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 problem Of what
electricity is, Mr. Brazelle says that
the rest was easy. Just how his knoWl-
edge of that evasive and wonderful en-
ergy led to his other discoveries, he
will not state.
In pursuing his investigation Mr.. Bra
Zelle says he found that nature knows
no color and that all metals are pri-
marily white, like silver In his cruel
BILE tubes he has treated clay and has
created fifteen new mentalS and all
the known ones.
His investigation Led him to the
conclusion, it is asserted. that there
are but three primary metals-copper,
lead and iron-which cannot be re-
solved into compound parts The ac-
cepted chemistry teaches that there
are seventy-five simple or primary
metals which cannot be reduced to
parts.
Take gold. for example. It is con-
sidered a primary metal. No acid, 1t
is held. will dissolve it except aqua
regia. Yet Mr. Brazelle says he finds
that gold is a compound and not a SIM
pie substance. 1t is made up he de-
cIares, of two unknown quantities
There is 80 per cent of one. which he
terms Ok, and 20 per cent of the other,
dissolve in AQUA regia and no other
known acid will phase it. Both TX and
Ok are white when separated. In COM
position they take on the hue Of gold.
The company organized to make
practical use of the startling discov-
cries will at the beginning confine itself
to the manufacture of aluminium. which
sells for $50 a pound: calcium. which
commands 5000 per pound; gacium
which sells at $50 a pound and zorium
one of the new metals which Mr.. Bra
zelle thinks Is destined to take the