The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
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CHICAGO. March Anybody VINO
tos tho necessary materials and fur
mace that will produce a temperature oi
5000 degrees, or volcanic heat, can stay
at home and make his own gold Will
out subjecting himself to the rlgors OIL
Klondike weather. E. G. Bryce, presl-
dent and general manager or the Ma
tional Metallurgical Company, Wnich
has q plant at Lowe avenue ana mir
tv-ninth street for the purpose OF man
ufacturing gold and silver SAID To-Day
that in consequence of having procured
all rights to their process py patents
annlied for all over the world the opef-
atoms of the company would no longer
he conducted in secret. The precious
metal factory, in which operations WEI
resumed last night, will hereafter De
| conducted in as matter OF fact man
ner and as open to puDhc lilspeos,U ,,fo o.
those of any we'll conducted manu1ac-
turing establishment. Mr.. Bryce sees
no reason now why his formula snoulu
not be given to the public here 1t IL.
Take of chemically pure antimony
parts: sulphur, 10 parts; iron, part
caustic soda, 4 parts flace lheoS
qredients in a graphite cruciDle ana eX-
nose to a white heat of 5OOO degrees
from eight to forty-eight hours. row,
der the resulting mass and mix IL Wen
| TO Incorporate the metal with stag
| combine this with charcoal, ! part
oxide of lead, 8 parts, and caustlc souS'
4 Darts. Fuse the whole until metal
| lie hutton is obtained. SCarify and GU
pola this metallic mass and the result
! ing lead will be gold and silver.
! : That the stockholders in the enter
| prise are satisfied Is evidenced by the
! fact that at a secret meeting Moiiua
! nieht at which Mr.. Bryce submitted
| the results of experiments, they unan1-
| nously voted to continue work ano
! subscribed 500, 900 to be used for build
| ing a. railroad to the companys anu
! mony mines in Utah. In proof OF TINS
Mr.. Bryce placed before representa-
| tive of The Call the minutes Oh the
| meeting.
1--WE have been ridiculed and misrep-
resented" said Mr.. Bryce. by report
ers who were refused information apou'
! our affairs, which 1t would nave peeE
Injurious to have given out. For In
/. stance, the closing down OF our plant
in January was published as the col
! LAPSE of the enterprise. The 1act IL
| that in winter time, from lack OIL foaus
| and other facilities, We could not oo-
tain our supply of anthony from the
mines in Utah They are situated in a
wilderness, and the nearest town Is
Marlti, sixty miles away. we made q
! contract with the Higbee-Russell Com
pany of this city to supply us, but when
! the time for delivery came they falleo
us. alleging that their mine had 'pipcheo
out For that reason we were obliged
to SUSPEND operations until a further
supply of raw material to the extent OF
! sixty tons a week could be obtained
| With money voted last night we shall
make such improvements In our ROADS
and other workings at the mines In
Utah that our supply will be uninter-
rupted.
| ed a new furnace of my invention
which will enable us to do our own re-
fning and also to treat a large guam
tity of refractory ores which have htth-
erto defed our efforts"
us your process a commercial sue
cess?" was asked.
"a complete success" was the reply
"By recent improvements we have sue
| ceeded in making ore which yields $500
to the ton in gold and silver. l want
! to say further that there is not a share
| of this stock on the market. The total
| amount realized by the sale of stock
has been only SIS, 440, which has beer
used In the erection of this plant and In
procuring mining claims. l held origi-
/ nally ITO shares, and have purchas &c
since $50 shares, which cost me $5462
! E. r. Kosh of Penryth, Va, who was
my original partner during the long ex-
detrimental stages of this process
| against my wishes and advice, put 20(
shares of stock on the market last Sep
TENDER. and 1t was this offering which
brought upon me, my process, and the
whole concern, the newspaper ridicule
which followed. AS the commercial
process is now fully protected and the
volcanic heat required can only be at
tanned in my furnaces. which are also
fully protected, no further mystery viii