The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-18


and disease, and believe il to be the
basic principal of mesmerism and
hypnotsm. So far its only applied uses
have been to conditions operating be-
tween individuals. but if this subtle
force can circulate from one body of
flesh to another why cannot it be made
to permeate metals or be carried by
wire, imprisoned. chained and handled
as electricity has been?
"On this theory, then, l went to
work to construct a battery or union
of metals which would draw to any
known metal, either in it's native or its
manufactured state and after six
years of la Dor ! have succeeded. / can
find precious ores or buried treasure
if | come within / 900 feet of it, and in
cases of strong attraction l have reason
to believe that my instrument Will draw
to a. deposit much further.
In my instrument I have secured a
mechanical union. or compound, of
certain parts of native gold. native
silver, magnetic sand and chemicals
which draws to any known mineral in
the earth and even to the ochres and
oxides
The minometer which Mr.. Myers
presents as the solution of the problem
of locating minerals is very different
from the instrument just described.
Going along the street Mr.. Myers
carries the whole contrivance snugly
packed in hollow piece of bamboo
four feet long The minometer is made
Of two wries. each three feet eight
inches long. At one end the wires are
connected by a copper tongue or
double piece OF copper three inches
long and three fOurths of an inch
wide. Behind this copper tongue the
wires are again wrapped together for
the space of a foot, and after that they
are free, although each wire is wrapped
with copper wire TO the end. In the
copper tongue at the end of these long.
flexible wires is placed the little bat
terry or a prepared lodestone, which
is supposed to draw to gold, silver,
lead or zinc. according to the materials
of which it is composed. The gold
lodeStone is in the shape of a button.
the silver lodestone looks like a 10 cent
piece, thicker and much lighter, the
zine and lead lOdeStOne is black, very
light in weight and about the size of a
bronchial trOche. All these diminutive
batteries have milled edges and the
inventor declares that the milling cor
responds exactly with the number of
wraps of copper Wire around the long
wires which constitute the body of the
instrument. The composition of these
batteries is the inventors secret He
the discovery of different metals The
gold battery will not draw TO silver
nor the silver battery 10 gold. hence
if Mir. Myers discovers anything at all
he knows what he has and where it is.
The long wires which convey the native
magnetism Of the operator to the little
battery in the tongue at the end Of the
instrument Mr.. Myers makes himself
from imported Siberian graphite. which
bo
duty. The positive wire is less than
one-half the size of the negative pole.
Small batteries are also placed in the
wrapped portion of the instrument be
hind the tongue and in the tongue.
The operator places the end of one
of the long, flexible wires in his mouth
it tightly with his teeth, and
grasps the end of the other free wire
With both hands the right in front of
the left. holding his hands straight in
front of him. close to and on a level
before it is detected by any attraction.
stands straight out in front of the
operator. But as soon as ii is brought
near the gold silver or other metal for
which il is charged. il begins to act in
the most curious manner. Without any
effort on the part of the
operator the head, or tongue of this
I III iOuS OutIt- btSluS 10 OScllldic IKE
a snake seeking a place to strike and
then turns slowly. unwaveringly. in
eVitably, to the mineral for which it
has an attraction. If he advances and
stands over it the snake-like wires
curl around in the most curious fashion
until they point directly downward. If
the operator passes on the witch will
curl around until it points directly be-
hind him. In seeking gold or silver
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a building, or high above its reach, the
-alisman will lift its head and point
up in the air. if the attraction is strong
enough. And so delicate is this nicely
balanced instrument that the silver on
4 mirror or the gold leaf on d pile of
books will attract it when the operator
s ten feet or more away.
TO a reporter oe the Star Mr. Myers
gave number CT tests as mere
described one night last week The
perfected minOmeter was completed
ast carnival week. Since that time the
inventor has been busy constructing
which viii draw TO different /
metals. and experimenting with the
instrument. He evidently has full (
'aith in his strange invention and de- /
,lares that il Will do all and more.
han IS claimed for it. No one has ever I
landed the instrument except Mr. 1
Myers. and ne says that no one may
mil after his death. Neither the in
trument nor the secret Of its construc- (
ion is for sale at any price Mr..
flyers has already refused Gathering
fferS to construct a duplicate by those +
Who have seen the minOmeter work 4
For the purpose of experiment he {
las accompanied several parties to diff
erent spots about Kansas City where /
hey thought treasure had been buried.
H. - .--.s l..
arth, which have recently apDeared /
4 the vicinity of Westport. on the old
Vestport road near Thirty first street.
n Treasure hill west of Summit street.
II the east bottoms and in Argentine
nay he laid at the door of Mir Myers
nd his minOmeter and To mysterious
ersOns, who came for him al night
no drove him rapidly to a SPOT where
hey declared buried treasure was con-
called. So strong has grown the fever
Or searching for hidden treasure that
he hills about Kansas City are as full
f pitfalls and honeycombed with
unnelS as the site of an abandoned
inning camp. In the vicinity of the
ron Door spring, in the southwestern
ortion of Wyandotte, the ground is
oneycombed like a gopher's nest, and
ne tunnel alone is said to represent
n expenditure of several thousand
ollars and months of labor. In one
ase. it is claimed. where the mino-
leter located a treasure, a subterran-
an vault was discovered nineteen
eet from the surface and several
dollars in coin and plate Sc
Ired by the treasure seekers.
Among those who have seen Mr..
Iyers' minometer and are convinced
its genuineness is john E. Walsh. of
lie electrical supply firm of Hodge,
Jalsh & Loring. Police Commissioner
[. a. F'yke, who owns mines in Cripple
reek and his brother @ V Evl,e