The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-20
CHEATED BY DEATH OF VAST FORTUNE

DENVER, Colo.-Professor Charles w
week after an operation, Is another il
lustration of a man who gave up his
life in the pursuit of wealth. The pro-
fessor, who was a chemist, had perfect
ed a chemical process which promised to
treat successfully the low grade ores
containing gold. which have hitherto
gone to waste, although vast deposits
of these ores exist and have excited the
cupidity of mining men for years back
Whatever the value of the process dis
covered b. the professor it has not died
with him, although death mas cheated
him of what he was sure was to bring
him in millions. Capitalists had faith
enough in his method to organize stock
company for the purpose of utilizing his
invention or discovery. and everything
looked bright 70. him. While working
in his laboratory. however. and dab
bling in the che inicals that he used in
his process. some OF the poisonous drugs
worked through his body from contact
with his hands and affected the intes-
tines. After suffering agonies for a few
days the Physicians told the professor
tIdt ms Only nope W DIS III an opel dtioIl.
This was performed and the professor
died a short time afterward.
Though the officers of the company are
reticent touching their plans for the fu-
ture, it is plainly the intention to pro-
coed with the treatment of ores and the
gradual extension of production facili-
ties. Two members of the company have
worked the process, clear through to the
finishing test, with results as satisfac-
tory as any attained by the professor
himself
What the Pro- less Is.
The process in brief. consists in the
salvage of flour gold and other forms of
the precious metal that escape in the
customary fire treatment, and of I'm
cubating,'' or growing" gold. as it
is termed. in substances wherein no APP
parent and palpable values are found.
All this is accomplished by subjecting
the substances to treatment with certain
chemical compounds.
Professor Wynn interested Sidney
Williams and Willard Teller, brother of
Senator Teller, several months ago in his
newly discovered process for getting the
gold values in ore, and demonstrated to
the satisfaction of these gentlemen that
he could recover rich returns from stuff
ludI NY " lIldl LlulO Tau U6eAl lOO low
grade to work. The newspapers took up
the story, and the widest controversy
has been going on ever since, dealing
with the possibilities of Professor
Wynn's process.
Professor Wynn was born in Danville,
Va, 40 years ago. Most of his life he
has been engaged in inventing, patenting
and selling his rights. On some of them
he made considerable money; among
them We're an inhaler, cartridge which
was used in the confederate army to
considerable extent, an ice-cream freezer,
an anti-friction device for use on We
hicles and steam cooker.
He spoke occasionally to friends in
this city of experience in the confed-
crate service as a boy, and a recent in
quiry shows that he really did serve on
the Southern side, though when the war
closed he was only IS years old. He
went back to school and received good
education.
The professor himself said that for
rs years he had been travelling through
the country, perfecting patents and
placing his patents on the market. He
first visited Denver 10 years ago, and
sold patent inhaler, used in connection
with a catarrh cure, which he considered
one of his best inventions.
He was here and at Kansas City and
Salt Lake most of the time for five
years, and then met miner of Boulder,
from whom he received the first intma-
ton of the discovery which he after
ward claimed to have made. In speak
Ing of this phase of his career the pro-
fessor said recently: 1.-THE miner was a
man of large experience. He was an
Irishman, and afterward died in one of
the hospitals of this city, and was buried
In one of the Denver cemeteries. He
started me upon experiments in extract
ing fine gold. He said if I could dis
cover a process of saving the fine gold
In tale. I would be independently rich.
Dead Broke in Denver.
II was always of a, inventive turn,
and in the course of my experience in
that line patented A inventions. I be-
gan upon little pieces OF tale no larg, r
than the end Of my thumb, and carried
forward the tests often under the great
est discouragements. I went broke fire.
Quently, but continued from day to day.
and finally, last summer, while stopping
in Kansas City, the discovery was ac-
cidentally made that the red scum which
had been collecting on the surface of the
liquid in the vessels used in the tests
was almost pure gold. This discovery
was pointed out to me by a chemist Of
Kansas City, or I might have gone on
forever experimenting and never tested
the scum, as I was always looking to
the bottom for values. The scum was
almost pure gold and a discovery was
made that threatened to revolutionize
the world.
II came to Denver on the 7th of last
July. l had just cents in my pocket.
On the way up Seventeeth street met
an old friend, D. B. Ryan, formerly a
photographer of this city. He asked
me how I was, and I told him I was all
right, but out of money. He handed me
dollar. l sent for my trunk to the de-
pot, and that cost me so cents. took
lodging down town, and after a square
NEAL started out and found my attor-