The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-10-05
YELLOW METAL OUT OF
MEXICAN DOLLARS.
is BOUGHT BY UNCLE SAM
Product Has Been sold to the Govern
ment as Gold-Tnventor OF the Pro-
cess - pr Emmens, Wen
Known Chemist OF new
York Calls on Director
OF the Mint Preston.

WASHINGTON, W Oct 4. Among the
callers at the office of the director of
the mint to-day was Dr. stephen II.
Emmens of New Brighton. staten
Island, y. Y The doctor has discov-
cred a process by which nc is able to
extract gold from Mexican silver dol
lars at IA profit, and the object Of his
visit was simply to pay his respects to
Director Preston, who Is one OF his
best customers
The doctor is an eminent scientist,
and whom he produced letters from
such men as Professor William Croolzes.
the inventor of Crookes tubes. and
Henri de Parville of Paris, editor OF
La Nature, showing that they re-
gardcd him as a great discoverer in
the domain of science, Mr. Preston
treated his visitor with the highest
consideration.
DR. Emmens has a laboratory on
Staten Island, where he converts Mex
icau silver dollars into gold lie calls
the product arpentaurum gold. which
he sells to the United States assay
office in New York city at Sl3 per
ounce. lie deposited the first ingot at
the assay office last April, which as
sayed Si3 to the ounce and for which
he received S9J.05. Since that timl he
has deposited thirteen ingots Of about
the same fneness, for which he has
received sums Of money ranging from
sl20 20 Sass. lie called the directors
attention to the dates of the different
deposits, and Mr. Preston was able to
verify tho statements made by the Wis
itor by referring 10 the records.
After DIR. Emmens had taken his de-
parture Mr.. Preston said:
Il do not know what to think about
DR.. Emmens or his process Of convert
ing silver into gold The returns
from the assay Office in New York
show that the doctor has been selling
gold to the government Stree last
April. He has sold altogether about
$4,000 worth At first he deposited
only two ingots, or about twenty
ounces per month. In August he de-
posted four ingots having total
weight of seventy ounces. lie depos-
tied three ingots in September weigh
ing eighty ounces lie told me that
he made this gold from Mexican silver
dollars and that it was produced at a
profit Of about - per cent"
The doctor IS cripple and for pur-
poses Of locomotiou uses an invalid's
roller chair.
IL do not claim that produce gold
| from silver in the strict sense of the
expression, he said little sharply.
| "My process is a scientific one and
am perfectly willing TO answer any
inquiries concerning it that do not in
volve revelation of the method of
treating the metal | think there is
| but one matter in the universe aud
the chemical elements are only modes
of this universal substance. There is
no such thing as tTansmutation in the
alchemical sense, but there may be a
Encouragement of the molecules The
only difference between gold and sill
yer is a difference ia specific gravity
/ use Mexican dollars because l find
that l get better results from them
Briefly described, my proce IS of treat
ment is as follows:
II take Mexican dollar and dis
pose OF it in an apparatus which will
prevent expansion or flow II is then
subjected TO heavy, rapid and contin-
uous beating under conditions of cold
such as to prevent even temporary
rise of temperature, when the blows
are struck. Tests made from hour t.
hour show that the material Is grad
ually being transformed into gold"
Director Preston is not disposed 20
lregard DR. Emmens as an imposter.
The books show that the doctor has
been selling gold TO the government
and IL Is fair to presume that he is no;
doing so at pccuniary loss to him
self, But Mr.. Preston believes that
when the doctor begins TO operate on
a large scale the demand for silver
win send the price up TO point
where there viii be no profit in chang
ing II 10 gold