The San Francisco call., 1897-11-19
Will TURN
OUT COLD
IN PUBLIC
Brice Expects to Make
Tons of the Yellow
Metal.
HAS A PLANT FOR
THE PURPOSE.
Process by Which Antimony
Is Turned Into Very
Precious Ore.
CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND
NATURES SECRET.
Will Prove That Gold Is Not an
E ement, but the Result of
Chemical Action.
Process by Which Antimony
Is Turned Into Very
Precious Ore.
CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND
NATURES SECRET.
Will Prove That Gold Is Not an
E ement, but the Result of
Chemical Action.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL.

CHICAGO, Nov 1S-E. c. Brice, metal.
lurgist, che emist inventor and president
and general manager of the National
Metallurgical Company, declares he will
commence on large scale the man ufac
ture OF pure gold al new plant at Thirty
ninth street and Low avenue next Mon
day morning. He announces he will be
able to make 10000 tons of a certain ore 6
day in four furnaces in the plant, and this
ore will yield $3.50 ton when refined
The process is as follows:
Pure antimony is placed in the furnace
and subjected 10 destructive distilation
The fumes arising from this process are
driven by means of air blasts from fan:
into shaft feet in diameter and los lee
long. At the end of this shaft the fume:
are run into wool bags, on the sides o.
which antimohy collects in the form o
gray-colored sand. the fumes arising
from the coal being allowed to escape
through the meshes of cloth.
This sand is mixed with water to the
constituency of modeiers' clay and cut into
small blocks, whicl are placed in the fur
mace and subjected to heat approxim t.
ing 5000 degrees. This IS to secure as
nearly as possible volcanic action.
Oxygen. so Brce explains, is the medium
of the change For forty-eight hours the
blocks are allowed to remain in the fur
mace, which is patented, in which Brice
claims is the secret OF his success, mas
much as he has devised the means of Sc
curing great heat in large amounts
An oTe-crusher of the drypan kind then
grinds The blocks into gritty sand and this
is put In another furnace and covered
with two portions of lead to one of sand
which Brice calls his artificial ore. As its
specific gravity is greater than that OF So
called ore, the lead is precipitated to the
bottom of the furnace.
The intense heat causes the lead to form
letharge, which acts as caus:ic on the ore
nd eats up nearly all its consutuen. ele-
ments, except the god and silver alleged
to be thus produceI. The lead, as mixed
with the gold and silver, is Dase bullion.
To refine the base brllion it is IN oded in.
10 pigs, which are placed in bone-ash h
cups. Thirty of the cups are put in the
furnace and fused. Forty minutes is al
the time necessary TO cause the bone: as b
10 absorb all the i'm purities in the bull
lion, leaving mixture OF pure GOLD and
silver.
From 100 ounces of the mixture thus
acquired is obTalned twenty-six ounces oil
gold and silver, and the two are separated
by any of the methods in common vogue
1t is stated by MIR. Bric5 that he will be
able to make $50. 900 worth of gold week
after the plant IS started, ana he has e..
iected arrangements by which the entire
output will be taken by the Bank of Eng
land. Ha does not care to discuss the d 8.
astrous result which this discovery OF his
practicable method of making gold would,
according to hnanciers, have upon the
monetary systems and finances of the
world.
Brice is native of Dayton, Ohio, and
has long studied chemistry. He came tc
Chicago four years ago, and lives at 304(
Calumet avenue. All his life Brice, who
is still in his thirties, has been decided in
the opinion tina. goli is not an element.
but the result of chemical action. Upon
this theory he has labored for years, and
has, so he insists, at last solved the pro-
cess by which the yellow meta. is formed
in nature.
II am not an alchemist nor believer in
alchemy" he says, but have found how
to manufacture gold probably and prac
ticably."