El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-15
EDISION'S GOLD EXTRACTOR.
Will Be OF Great Benefit To FL
pasO If 1t Proves A Success.

Hidden in the waste lands of tn
southw est within range of 200 mile
of Ell Paso are tons upon tons o
gold. Up to the present time this golt
has had no value to man. Mines coulC
not be worked in this region withou
water, and the cost of getting one dol
lars worth of gold from this land BY
former methods would have exceeded
the value of the metal.
Thomas A. Edison, however, comes
to the front now with an electrical ap
paratus which promises to clear up the
problem of how to get this valuable
ore from the sands of Old aud New
Mexico and Texas, and other south
western states and territories.
Mr.. Edison has done little for two
years beside perfectinR his gold ex-
tractor. So secretly did the work
proceed that no information concern
til Mr.. Edison announced the compile
ton of his work.
Mr.. Edison's system of gold extrac-
ton by electricity is somewhat similar
to that which he uses at Edison, N. j.,
in getting iron from river ore-by mag
netism. 1t is in the handling of the
gold powder that this latest process
consists, although in erecting his plant
larger ore crushers are required.
There are three sets of magnets
twelve-inch, eight-inch and four-inch
and the crushed ore falls in front of
each kind of magnet in succession as
the sand goes through receptacles pro-
vided for them. When it has passed
through the entire process the result
ing material carries PERCENTAGE of
the gold. Mr.. Edison declared today
that this is his greatest piece of work
since he came before the public's no.
tice.
Mr.. Edison has said, concerning his
invention:
81 am the patentee of the process s,
but my only interest in the corporation,
which is to work the gold out of the
sand, which Is called the 'Calestro
Company is my employment as its ex-
pert. L expect to go to New Mexico
with the machinery and to superinten-
dent the construction of the plant. We
shall begin work almost at once.
sat the start we shall produce S1O,-
GOO GOO Worth Uor OF gold every day. There is
$500 ,000, 900 worth of it there. The
electric machinery will take 1t directly
from the sand. There will be no trans
pOrtatiOn of the ore. We shall handle
1t all on the spot and merely ship the
pure gold.
"My progress has solved the problem
of gold mining without water. 1t has
been tested and found to fulfill all re-
quirements. The gold ore in some
places is not more than three feet be-
low the surface, and 1t extends down.
W ard in some localities for 100 feet be-
fore bed rock is found.''
''This certainly is the biggest thing
ever invented, this process for ex-
tracting gold from sand. Near Santa
Fe, N. M, there is a region of 100
square miles, containing gold worth
$500. 900, 900; that would have remained
there had this process not been discov-
cred.
THAT gold will now be taken out
and added to the worlds supply. There
are large gold deposits elsewhere that
his process also will make available.
Discussing this discovery from a To-
cal standpoint, Mr.. D. w. Reckart as
'ayer of the Independence assay office,
said: ''Should this invention prove to
De all that Edison has claimed, it will
De wonderful thing for Ell Paso. Not
'nly are there in the Yaqui country in
Mexico immense quantities of low
grade ore subject to this process, but
light here at home in the immediate
7icinity of Ell Psso there is a vast
AMOUNT of the black sand which always
free gold and which this pro-