Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-03-31

VI 1e1tANHa AtA tAN A~tAAbAA N9AA f0Af for some time.
 \ recent Chicago telegram con- tains very elaborate account of q recent invention whereby 1t is al- legged gold is being made artifcially for commercial purposes, and which it is stated threatens to upset all e1- isting financial conditions. The iu- ventor of the process, Edward c. Brice, whose fame bids fair to rival, if not eclipse, that of Edison and Telsa, is a first cousin of Senator Calvin s. Brice. He ecommenced bis study of metallurgy in 1879. He is now 8 years of age. Before he was 70 he had several important inven- tions to his credit. He comes of a family of chemists and inventors. He was already an expert metallur- giSt when in 1876 he tramped with a pack mule from camp to camp in the Rocky mountains, making, as he says, more money by sssaying for the mlners than the miners made themselves. It was while thus en- gagged MT. Brice first realized that nature has well defined method of manufacturing the precious met als and he determined that If it were possible he would duplicate her method. lt has only been within the past few months, however, that MT. Brice has perfectad his rnven- ton, or discovery, and has ereete d furnaces in Chicago for operating with. They imltate as closely as possible the volcanic action of ns- ture. They are all covered by pat ent and are a necessary and valua- ble portion of his invention. There are four of these furnaces. each per ! forming certain steps in the process, from the beginning of the treatment of the crude material un il the re- ! fined product Is ready for the mint.
 Iu the course of his studies Mir. Brice discovered that when nature makes gold she does so by a process of heat of long duration, kept at an even temperature.
 ] To successfully initiate her in this particular was an apparently insu- perable difficulty, but after building nine furnaces which did not wholly answer the purpose the inventor snc- ceeded at last in obt aiuing one which gave the desired result.
 4 peculiar and altogether novel 1 feature in the construction of the l furnace used to create tue gold and silver in the oxide is cluster of air cells in the light and left breasts of the furnace, and so constructed that when the products of combustion pass into them atmospheric oxygen IS admitted to separate aud complete the combustion of those products, thus giving great heat by accumula- tion from a small amount of fuel.
 In Reconstruction of this furnace MT. Brice has, in reality. ilized the principle of the air cells in the lungs of the human body, the only known perfect agent of combustion. The remaining three furnaces are used in the detail work ot preparing the metals O be used in the creation of the ore and in extracting the gold and silver after the same has been created in the furnace first de scribed.
 The far reaching effects of this invention have not been lost sight of MT. Brice and his associates. IL is possible that the control of the output of these products would rad ically change the entire financial system of the world.
 There are we'll defined rumors that two or three governments in whose patent offices MT. Brice has filed the application containing his formula, have already put it to test and that overtures have been made with a view to securing control of his pat ents. On this subject, however, MT Brice will not speak.
 Should any government secure the sole right to manufacture, how ever, the production of the precious metals, which is the basis of all f nancial systems, would be as readily regulated and controlled as any other department of the govern ment. The astonishing spectacle might be then presented of a na- tion entirely free from taxation and self supporting-a Utopia of which the most advanced speculators in the realms of the possible have never dreamed.