Arizona republican., 1897-10-23
TURNING SILVER INTO GOLD.
Professor Emmens Tells How He
 Makes the Process Pay.

Professor Stephen H. Emmans, who professes to have discovered meth cd of converting pure silver into a substance which he called gold, has recently written a number of letters to eminent scientists in which he maintains the position that both gold and silver are composed of molecules, by changing the arrangement Of which he can change the chacter of the met al, and that in his experiments on this line he has discovered a new chemical element which he terms ar gentauru1n, as it partakes Of the na- ture of both gold and silver. Profa-- sor Emnens is now constructing a force engine, which will give the tr5- mendous pressure of 800 tons to the square inch, and claims that when this engine is completed the problem of manufacturing commercial god will have been solved. This engine was recently tested and is said to have worked satisfactorily. A friend in New York sends the Denver -Republi- can copies of some of these letters from which the following extracts are taken: Tn a letter to Professor Wm. Crookes, discoverer of the x rays, he says under date of May 21. 1897:
 Our gold process has become mod flied since the announcement made last September Gin New York Jour nab. When work on q microscopica1 scale advanced to commercial dimen-
 
 pense with the tedious and costly preparation of so-called .aIotropic' silver as raw material. We now use Mexican dollars. #'
 Take a Mexican doNal (a coia Which. as now minted, is cert fled by the United States assay office here to be free from gold-i e.. not to have more than a 'traceO, and dispose it In an apparatus which will prevent expansion or flow. Then subject it to heavy, rapid and continuous beating under conditions of cold, such as to prevent even temporary rise of tenn perature when the blows are struck. Test the material from hour to hour and at length you will find more than a trace of gold''
 "I do not even insist that the met al obtained in the experiment or pro- duced under better economical con- dltions in the argentaurum laboratory IS gold. l choose to call it so. but this is not binding on you or any orc else. All that the members of the Argentaurum syndicate are really concerned with is the question wheth- CT the United States assay office will pay gold price for the metal whatever It may be. This question has been answered to our satisfaction. We nave sold to the United States assay office three ingots of what we call ar gentaurum gold. They weighed after melting 704, 9.61 and 1O.96 ounces re- spectively, and netted $95O5, s12O1O. and $14761. We are now preparing fourth ingot.
 When my force engine (now near ly f1nishedJ shall be ready it will give us the means of readily producing pressures exceeding 800 tons to the square inch. We look forward to ac- complaining many marvels by its in- strumentality. And I have every con- idence that the prduction of argen- taurum gold will be brought LID to 50,000 ounces monthly within a year."
 Under date of June.7, 1897, he writes to Prof. Crookes:
 'I am of course still producing gold. My fourth ingot weighed, after melt ing, 1909 ounces and having a fine ness of 6S5 it netted s171.48 at the United States assay office here I am now at work on fifth ingot.''