The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-20

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| ton.
Il had not money enough to buy the
necessary chemicals He paid for them.
After seeing number of tests, in which
gold appeared every time, he took me
to Willard Teller. Mr.. Teller did not
| show any special interest. and l did
not ask any assistance, but he came
around in few days and said he would
assist in developing the process on a
| larger scale. l never asked Mr.. Williams
or Mr.. Teller for dollar, but they have
| been very kind to me, and they are
convinced that the process is what l
| claim for it.
My theory is that all known pro-
cesses for extracting gold are imper-
| feet. Here are five different kinds of
! gold, and the known processes catch only
one of the kinds. Liquid gold as l call
| it, oil of gold. and flour gold all escape
! from the ordinary processes. l also be-
| lieve. as does Mr.. Teller, that gold grows.
| The old miners have often spoken of
! gold growing. and l believe it. Iron. sui
/ phur. COPPER. silver and lead all inter-
fere to some degree with other processes,
but We can catch them all. | do not in
! tend to pay any attention to copper,
silver. or any other metal, except gold
as it Guys them ALL and gold is what
the world is after
The friend of whom the professor
spoke was D. B. Ryan of this city. Speak
ing of the professor. he said:
Il have known Professor Wynn for
five or six years. and there is no one for
whom | entertained warmer sentiments
of respect and admiration. 1 had not
seen him for several years, when I
met him again on the street here last
July. Though he was short of funds.
he was quite cheerful and full of con-
fidence relative to the entire success of
his gold Extracting process, provided he
could interest in it some one prepared
to furnish the cash necessary to procure
the apparatus required for treatments
sufficiently large to produce valuable
quantities of refined metal
Though at first his proposition seemed
chmerical and entirely too great to be
true. the earnestness with which Pro-
lessor Wynn gave himself to it treasured
me, for l knew him, and I was certain
that he was as honest and sincere a
man as ever breathed. and my knowledge
OF his great ability as an INVENTOR, as
well as an analytical chemist, at last
convinced me tina. he was right When
he showed me the results of some of
his crude tests, made almost without
apparatus. l had entire faith in it and
became almost as enthusiastic as he.
Troubles of the Promoters.
The next thing to be done was to find
the means of putting the process into
extensive and paying use. l furnished
the professor what little 1 could spare
for his immediate expenses, and then
set about finding some one who could
negotiate for a sum of money great
enough to equip large plant
Il knew it would be useless for me or
the professor to go directly to men of
capital and try to interest them in what
at first glance seemed such an absurd
and wholly visionary proposition, but 1
had one man in mind whose words would
have weight with the moneyed men, and
I took Professor Wynn to see him.
This was Sidney Williams, whom
! had known for many years and who
would, I felt confident, listen to what
we had to say and give the matter his
attention. Everything turned ous rs 1
expected it would. Mr.. Williams was
impressed first, with Professor Wynn
himself, and then with his great dis
covery
When he saw the results of the pro-
fessor's tests Mr.. Williams was not only
convinced of the practicability and al
| most inestimable value of the process,
but became enthusiastic and declared
that this discovery would entirely revo-
lutionize the worlds system of ore treat
ment.
''The rest you already know. Judge
Williams went to see Willard Teller. TAX
ing Professor Wynn with him. They
went carefully into all the details of the
process, and in the end succeeded in
thoroughly interesting that gentleman
in the work. Then $1,OUv,U0O company
was Incorporated and the development of
their plans proceeded.
AS for myself I have no financial in
terest in the company, but the professor
considered that it was through my
agency that the present arrangement had
been brought about and declared that
I should share with him the great profits
that cannot fail to accrue from the use
Of this wonderful discovery. Therefore I