The San Francisco call., 1898-03-08
BRYCE HAS
 4 DISCIPLE Now Com eS Dr. Everette With a Formula for
 Making Gold.
Claims to Have Produced Yel- low Metal From Pure
 Anthony.
Elaborate Explanation by the Ex- Alaska Explorer of the Secrets
 of His Process.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

TACOMA, March 7.-Dr Willis E. Eyerette a prominent chemist and as- saver, announces to-day that as a re- suit of fifteen years of experiments he
 has discovered how to transmute an- timony into gold. The slag also con- tains traces of copper, but how much cannot be told until assays are con- pleted tomorrow. The climax of pr. EVerette'S work came this morning, when after fifty hours work he cooled off the cupel in which the refining pro- cess had been completed and at its bot tom found a tiny button of gold. The discovery of this pin point of precious metal pleased him more than check for $1O, 900 could have done. It meant that his years of experimenting had not been in vain; that he had dis covered one link in chain of knoWl- edge which, when fully known, will probably permit of the transmuta- ton of what are known as elements into new and valuable combinations. pr. Everette said
 This is the first experiment with an- timony in which I have obtained any thing practical and tangible. l have obtained gold and traces of copper. The slag seems to contain more copper. The
 result is to prove that antimony, gold 1 and copper are not elements, strictly speaking. but compounds. It may be | that all so-called elements are simply | compounds of one element. Others have
 obtained gold and silver from base
 metals, but no one has previously ob- 1 tained copper. These experiments are
 along the line of those of Emmons or New York, TisSandier of France, Brice of Chicago and others. Emmons makes 1 gold from silver. 1 have been notlned 1 that antimony has been used as basis
 of a compound from which gold has
 been obtained and sold to the hints.
 As far as known pr. Everette is the
 second chemist to produce gold from
 antimony, the other being Brice of Chi
 cago. Dr. Everette'S formula is the re-
 suit of his own experiments and core
 spondence. He mixed antimony With
 eight other elements and compounds
 the object being to produce the great
 est heat and pressure in the furnace
 These ingredients were carbon, oxide
 of soda, silicon, sulphur, iron by hydro gen. oxygen gas, oxide of alumnia and
 oxide of magnesia. These, as well as the antimony, were from Mercks lab oratory In Germany and guaranteed chemically pure. This makes 1t abso-
 lutely certain that none Of them con-
 tained gold or copper before 1t was heated These nine substances were
 subjected to long continued and very
 great heat under great pressure The
 average temperature was 47OO degrees Fahrenheit At times, especially dur
 ing an explosion purposely caused in
 the covered crucible while in the fur
 mace, a temperature of 5000 to 5000 de- grees was attained. Ordinary fire
 brick melted like water under this
 tremendous heat. The transmutation is brought about by a change in the atomic weights of the substances. Dr , Everette reasons that if by changes brought about last night gold and cop
 per can be produced. who can tell what future combinations of atoms and re- sulting substances may be brought about under greater heat and pressure His gold-making process requires fifty
 hours to complete and consists of five , distinct parts. The tiny button of gold secured was obtained from twenty-five grammes of chemically pure antimony : Last October Dr. Everette says he
 transmitted pure silver into gold at the rate of 8 gold from thirty-two ounces of silver. He is certain he is now or the right track and will push his expe-