The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-13
READY TO MAKE GOLD.
Precious Metal IL to De Made From
Anthony and Lead.
From the Chicago Chronicle.

AntlmOny anu Lehu.
From the Chicago Chronicle
The Klondike, the rand of South Africa,
the Comstocl1 lode or the fabulous mines
of the Aztecs will not be worthy of men
ton when the Chicago gold factory begins
work About oct. Is Edward c. Brice Will
start up his works. and, he says will turn
out gold by the ton.
He and small stock company of seven
men have completed the factory. or the
reduction works, or the gold plant which
ever Is preferred, and all that remains to
be done Is to test the furnaces and dry
out the brickwork before a golden stream,
It is prophesied, will be pouring out from
the small opening in front of the blast
furnace.
one thing is certain a plant of intricate
arrangemnt and novel plan Is completed
at the southwest corner Of Lowe avenue
and Thirty-ninth street. 1t Is plain,
wooden structure and a passer-by would
never suspect that the most precious of
metals was about to be manufactured
there in quantities enough to satisfy the
most avarcious man.
Mr. Brlce has reduced his proposition to
a science and only uses two ingredients
anthony and lead. He claims to have dis
covered the process of nature in forming
gold He believes and has demonstrated in
a small way that gold is product of VOL
canic action.
In his plant he expects to reproduce the
forces of nature. His chief furnace Is a
miniature volcano. The attributes of heat,
air and natural substances Of the earth $
formation are united in q great eruption
nd Mt nf 90 10
nation comes gold, pure and unadulterated
gold, marketable at the assay offices OF
the treasury of the United States at $40 an
ounce and Mr. Brice will, " his volcano
does what is expected Of 1t, turn out 13i
ounces a day. That is $3.50 every twenty
four hours. Besides gold, he Will have q
small proportion of silver, about twenty
six ounces to each 1874 ounces of gold. Not
a bad result, think the stockholders, from
a ton of anthony and few pigs of COM
mercial lead.
Moreover, the anthony comes from the
company's own mines IN Utah, and these
mines are the best In the state. Already a
train load of the mineral Is mined ana
ready to load on the cars. The first ship
ment will soon be on the way, and in case
it does not arrive In time for the opening
flow Of the precious metal Mr.. Brice has
provided himself with a stock of anti
mony from Japan. 1T isn't any better as
not so good-but 1t Is anthony and that
Is all Mr. Brice cares TO know. He let's his
volcanic furnace do the rest.
A tour Of inspection was made through
the factory yesterday under the guidance
of Mr. Brce, and intricate and mysterious
tunnels, blowppes, furnaces and mixing
machinery were examined by a reporter
for the Chronicle. There are three groups
OF furnaces, each having a special work
to DO
First Is the volcano. 1t generates a
heat Of 1900 10 5000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Many blowpipes aid the work of initiating
nature when an earthquake or an eruption
of Mount Vesuvius is due. Under this
furnaces and others Is suterranean
passage TO carry the vapor into which
the anthony Is turned to a series of
cooling pipes in the yard. This yaDor or
gas is antimonial oxide, and is forced
through the cooling pipes TO a house built
of iron and steel, where the gas is forced
into wooden bags the hot air and the
smoky matter passing through In this
form II resembles a grayish dust, and
when collected is put into an automatic
mixer with water and compounded into a
thick paste.
From the mixer 1t goes to another fur
mace with a certain proportion Of lead
The only use of the lead Is as concen-
traitor. The slags OF scum is taken OF
and the product Is turned into mold.