The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-12
CAN MAKE GOLD.
ST. Louis Chemist Claims to
Have Discovered the Secret.

ST. Louis, Feb. 1.-THE dreams of
yesterday are the realities of today.
Benjamin Brazelle, a noted inventor,
chemist and scientist, with an office in
room S03 Mormon & Jaccard building
stands ready to demonstrate that the
alchemists wrought wiser than they
knew. Mr.. Brazelle has gone further
in his experiments than the mere trans
mutation of metals, and has made dis
coVerieS, by actual experiment, which
oVerturn the entire science of chemis-
try, metallurgy, electricity and laws of
gravitation. He does not confine him
self to airy theories, based on cOnjec-
tural premises, but has demonstrated
to witnesses, and claims to be able to
again back his every allegation with
clear and convincing proofs He has
been able to prove his theories to such
an extent that q company has been
formed to make practical use of his
wonderful and startling discoveries.
The company has already started it's
plant at Fair Lawn, in St. Louis coun-
ty. 1t will soon be completed and
ready to turn out aluminium, calcium,
gold, silver, iron, and many other met
ais not known to scinece, all manufac-
tured from common clay.
By actual test Mr.. Brazelle has
turned silver into gold and gold into
silver. The transmutation he consid-
ers the most insignificant part of the
discoveries he has made-a mere moth
ing in comparison with the feat of
changing clay into gold, silver. iron,
calcium, aluminium, glacium and 10
other metals not known to scinece and
whose qualities have not yet been de-
termined by the discoverer.
Mr. Brazelle intends to settle the
mining question and the gold question
by Matching out the desired metals
from his incubator, and he promises
that within ten years no mine will be
in operation and that the government
will be compelled to demonetize both
gold and silver, as it will then be manu-
featured in such great quantities that
it will be as common as clay, from
which it sprung.
In pursuing his investigation. Mr..
Brazelle finds that nature knows no
color and that all metals are primarily
white, like silver. From his crucible
in which he treated clay he has taken
Is new metals and all the known ones.
His investigations lead him to the con-
clusiOn that there are but three pri-
mary metalS-cOpper, lead and iron
which cannot be resolved into COM
pound parts. The accepted chemistry
teaches that there are IS simple or pri-
mary metals which cannot be reduced
to parts. Mr.. Braze1le reduces that
number to three.
Take gold for example 1t is consid-
cred a primary metal No acid will dis
solve it except aqua regia- / ct MI
Brazelle finds that gold is a compound
and not simple substance It is made
up of two unknown quantities. There
IS 81 per cent OF one, Whlcn ne Terms -
and 20 per cent of the other which he
terms TX. The TX will not dissolve in
aqua regia and no other known acid
will phase it. Both TX and 2X are white
when separated. In composition they
take on the hue of gold Mr. Brazelle
finds that silver contains three parts. all
white mixe d in about equal proportions
The TX of the silver mixed with the TX
reduced from the gold will again pro-
duce the yellow metal. From clay Mr..
Brazelle is able to produce the TX and
the 2X contained in natural gold. and
by uniting them produce the real ar
ticle.
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