Tombstone prospector., 1897-10-27
SILVER TURNED TO GOLD.
Prof. Emmens TelJs How He
 Makes the Process Pay.

Professor Stephen II. En msns, who
 professes to have discovered . meth oj of converting pure silver into q
 'ubstanc, which he called gold, has
 recently written 6 number of lsit-rs
 to eminent scientists in which he
 maintains the position that both gold
 and silver are composed Of molscules,
 by changing the arrangements Of
 which he can change the character o'
 the metal, aad that iu his experiments on this hoe he has discovered . new
 chemical element which be terms ar
 gentsurum, as it psrtskes sf the ps-
 turs of both gold and silver. Pssfss-
 sor Emmens is now constructing 6
 force engine, which will give the ,re-
 mendous pressure of 600 tons to the
 sauare inch, and elaine that when
 this engine is completed the prohle m
 Of manufacturing commercial gold
 will have been solved. This engine
 was recently tested and is said to have worked satisfactorily. A friend in New York sends the Denver Re-
 publican copies Of some Of these letters from which the following s1tracts are taken. h c letter to Professor Wm. Crookes, discoyerer Of the \ rays, he says under date Of May 2l, 1897:
 "Our gold prscess has become mod flied siRce the announcement made last September fin New York Jour nab. When work on 8 micrsseopicsl scale advanced to commercial dimen- sisns it was found possible to dispense with the tedious and costly prepsra- ten Of se-callsd 'allstropic' silver ss raw material. We now use Mexican dollars. :"
 "Take 6 Mexican dollar (s coin which, as now minted. is certified by the United States asssy office here to be free from gold-i. C.. Tot to Lave more than q 'trscs') and dispose is in An apparatus which will prsvest eI- pan.isn or flow. Then subject 1t to heavy, rapid ard continuous beating under conditions of cold, such ss Co prevent even . temporary rise of tenn psrature when the blows are struck. Test the material from hour to hour i and at length you will lad more then . trace of gold"
 II do not even insist that the metal obtained in the experiment. or pro- ducod urdsr better economical con. ditions in the argen.aurnm laboratory is gold. l choose to call it so, but I this is not binding on you or any one else All that the members ef the ! syndicate are really concerned wit; is the question whsth- CT the United States assay oice will pay gold price for the metal whatever it may be. This question has been to our satisfaction. We have sold to the United States sssay office three ingot. of what we call sr- gentaurum gold. They weighed after 704, 96I and lO96 ounce, re- spso,ively. and nettsd $95.O5, sl2O.lO, and $147.6l. We are now preparing : fourth ing,t.
 "when my force engine (ncw near, ly fnished) shall be ready it will give us the means of readily producing pressures exceeding 500 tcns to the .quare inch, We lock forward to sc- many marvels by its in [ strumentality. And have every con- adence tha. the production of argen- tsurum gold will bs brought up to 50, Oo ounces monthly within . year."
 Under date of June ', 1897. he writes 10 Prof. Crookes:
 "I am of course still producing gold Ny fourth ingot weighed, after melt. ng, l2 O9 ounces and having . fne- ness of 6s6 it nettsd $l7l.4S n the United States assay office here. am new at work on . 6fth iugo.."