Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-12-02
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At II O'Clock. Mr.. Brice retired, u;,.
accompanied, through the door OF A
large room built In the factory, which
is labelled ''compounding ROOM" A
few moments later grinding, crash.
ing sourd proclaimed that he was at
work v Ith the mixer and soon through
a little iron machine. running through
one side of the room. came pouring
the plastic composition. This was
cut into three small blocks by assist
ants and placed in the furnace as dc
scribed.
Mr.. Brice expects TO make $4,000
worth Of gold week when he gets
Into good working order, but does not
anticipate that this will have an an
preciale effect upon the money stand
ards of the world for some time TO
come. About this he does not worry,
however, but goes about his operations
in calm, business-like way, Las though
the discovery Of a method OF making
gold were, while not an every day oc-
currence, commercial operation only
and not an event turning topsy-turvy
the established ideas of the world for
thousands of years.
Mr.. Brice carries in his pocket
small lump of the metal OF his own
manufacture, which he states con-
talns s6S worth of gold The material
of which it was manufactured cost
little more than as many cents.
Chemists of the city have taken
much interest in Brice's alleged dis
covery but none OF them seems to be
lying awake nights over the startling
announcement.
81 do not care TO express any direct
opinion upon the alleged discovery"
said w. Hoskins, the Chicago assayer.
"Why, could 90 into my laboratory
and make gold under your very eyes
which would satisfy you and would
prove to be the genuine metal. You
would never see the substitution Of
the precious metal during the process.
Consequently, before passing an opin-
ion on the value of Mr. Brice's discov-
cry, | should prefer to watch the pro-
cess from end TO end.
"My deduction from the perusal OF
a rough description Of the process
would be that l can see no inherent !
probabilities or possibility in there
being any gold produced by that
method. The transformation Of oxide
of antimony, after pressing into brick |
lets and subjecting these to very high |
ten perature, seems to be the essential |
feature of the process, but can see
no Inherent possibility Of gold being
thus produced. The latter part OF
the Brce method seems to be a modi-
fcatiOn of the well-kdown processes !
of scoriicatlon and cupillaJion.
ut would require furnace rad
ically different f'om those in present
use to sustain IA 5,OOO-degree tempera-
ture during the length of time speci-
fed by the dlscoyerer, The state
ment made that the furnaces have a
capacity of 10000 tons per day, each
ton yielding $3.50, is obviously iu-
correct and absurd. That means an
output of more than $26, ,000, 900 worth
of gold daily. If that wouldn't settle
the silver question don't know what
would.
"Brice states that he has entered
into a contract by which the Bank of
England will take his output. That
is quite unnecessary, as arrangements
can easily be made to handle his en-
tire product for cash right in Chicago
at less expense than the transporta-
tion charges to London, II the trapsE
mutation Of metals is ever realized it
will have been accomplished as most
great discoveries are, asa result Of
slow, laborous and patient research
by skilled scientists"