El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-18
linger as a halo of benediction until
we meet again on the shores of bliss
full eternity. Farewell.
GOLD MADE FROM SILVER.
A French Chemist Produced a Little
Gold in Mexico Years AGO.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
| In recent issue of 'L'Hyper.
CHIME" the organ of the Societe AL
chimique de France, reference was
made to the efforts of DR.. Stephen H
/ Emmens to convert silver into gold
| And it was announced that the Amer
lean had been anticipated fully fifty
years ago by Frenchman named Tiff
fereau. The attention of DIR. Emmens
having been called to this story q few
days ago, he remarked:
! Eyes, the story is true. Tifferau is
still living, and have had correspon-
dence with him. He feels exceedingly
grateful to me for corroborating to
some extent the statements he made
fifty years ago in his own country. He
has been regarded a charlatsn-not
downright impOstOr, mind you, but q
misguided and self.deceived enthusi-
asst.
''Tiffereau was in Mexico when he
made his experiments. HE went thith-
er from France, and prscticed the art
of making daguerreotypes, partly for
revenue and partly to hide his chemi-
cal and metallurgical researches. He
has been kind enough to send me q
sample of the gold which he made while
in Mexico. It dates from 1S47. He is
now an old man, you see.
''One point of difference between his
method and mine is that he combines
his silver with nitric acid, first having
reduced the metal to fine grains with q
file, while 1 rely chiefly upon tremen-
dous pressure to effect the conversion.
Tiffereau also placed his stuff out in
the sunshine, and he is now inclined to
believe that this is an essential phase
of the process. He says that he con-
sumed about fourteen days in the ope-
ration. have tried This method re-
Gently, but thus far without definite re-
suits.
"Tiffereau has had a hard time of it
at the hands of his fellow -countrymen.
Away back in the sixties under the
Empire, he tried to get Frenchmen in
terested in his system. aud to persuade
them to help him to realize something
out OF his ideas. He was hooted at. It
was said that his gold if he really got
any at al, was what is known a. parted
gold All Mexican silver contains q
certain minute quantity of gold. He
was told that he merely got rid of the
silver and saved the gold.
IA test was arranged, finally. II
was to be condutred by the officials of
the French mint. They insisted that
the experiment should be conducted
with absolutely pure silver, instead of
Mexican silver. Tlffereau submitted to
l.
view of the French officials the result
was unsatisfactory. Neverth eless, it is
q matter of record that their silver
contained q little gold before they got
through, although they began with
what they believed to be absolutely
pure metal. Ever since the odds
have bsen against Tiffereau, and he
has been unable to interest finsnciers,
chemists or other persons of in
6uence.
When the news of my work reach
ed Tiffereau. therefore, he felt that he
was in measure viudicated. I have
promised to cooperate with him fin
ancially if he can induce any of his fell |
to 60 into the business
now.
81 have received letters of inquiry
from several other foreign chemists
within the last few months. They live
in France, Switzerland and Italy, and
have been experimenting, or are
about to experiment, along the same
lines as myself