The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-03

stands viii be used for part of the
Aloesers new building.
Dr. Fahrig viii leave Monday night
for South America, where he has been
engage to examine some gold mines
which are supposed to be Of great rich
ness.
Scores of people visited the Fahrig
mill this morning Among these were
dozen or more Of the society women OF
Topeka, whose husbands have filled
their ears with stories Of the gold shale
until their curiosity brought them to
the place where the tests had been act
ually made.
This Fahrig mill is a most unpreten-
rious structure It is about y feet wide
and thirty feet long, built of rough pine
boards and corrugated iron. It's front
door opens into the alley back OF the
Moeser plant. It is danked on the NO N
by the Moeser stable, and on the south
by the Continental creamery milk depot
Here is where Prof Ernst Fahrig has
been working diligently for the past
month, trying to find out the truth
about Kansas shale.
Inside the building. the appearance is
more promising than outside. It has
very scientific look. There is on one
side of the building a couple of tail iron
tanks for compressed air, a small vat
with zinc electrodes hanging in it. lit
tie dynamo buzzing and humming, nun
erous electrical appliances, another small
vat with electrodes. and then a larger
dynamo, which furnishes the power to
operate q series of wheels and DulleyS
geared to the floor and ceiling.
small room is partitioned off at the
further end of the structure, and in this
room a crusher IS whirring with terrific
speed pulYerizing the shale from big
bin which opens off at the north side.
That portion of the machinery which
is perhaps the most important is the
gravity tower and the watts which are
located in front of the crusher room. BY
a series of ladders it is possible 10
oil r10Fa n ha for of
and see the shale bubbling and boiling
in the great tanks. The shale while in
this stage of treatment is in liquid form
and of dark gray color. It is pumped to
the top of the tower. and runs down
over the heavily electrified plates to the
watts at the bottom, from which it 3
again pumped to the top. This opera
ton continued for "a hours, at the end
of which time the plates in the tower
are stripped of the precious metals
which they have collected.
Prof. F'ahrig has one secret which IS
not shared by anyone. That is the
composition of a substance which calls
"bauoxide," which is used as the sac-
tive element in the electrolytic process
Bauoxide is a substance which looks
like rosin, and which DR.. Fahrig says
was discovered by accident.
Prof Fahrig in addition to working on
the gold and silver elements in the shale,
has secured from some of the shale
! fine quality of oxide of zinc. He says
I luaI the SnaIe IS materially T4CH III ZlAC-
By the use of certain chemicals, he has
made from the 'tailings" Of his gold
runs wonderfully good quality of min
! eral paint. No oil is used in this paint
! Two weeks ago, Dr. Fahrig painted
part of his building with this paint, and
! it is proving its value in actual service.
I This paint adheres equally well to wood,
metal or stone.
THE electrolytic process for extract
! ing metals from ores is the coming pro-
/ cess" said DR.. Fahrig this morning
! I'VE do not understand half Of its posi-
I bilities. 1t is in its infancy. I believe
| that with my process, gold can be ex-
tracted from the shale in paying guam
4 titles"
'win you allow your process to be
used2"
IF these gentlemen who have been
/ employing me want to use my process,
/ 1 think we can reach terms. feel that
/ these men should be given all the en-
| courag cement possible
Il am heartily glad to be done with
/ this work said Prof. Fahrig 7 am
/ tired of it. 1t has been hard work with
! practically nothing to make 1t imam
cially object for me to carry It to
! completion. Hereafter, my terms for a
! single assay of Kansas shale will be
$500. 1 have accomplished the work
which L came here to accomplish nave
! proved that Prof. LOVeWetI and the 9TH
er assayers who have been getting good
assay results in their work, are right,
/ and the other people have been wrong.
L
LibelOus things have been printed about
me in the newspapers, rival companies
have attacked me, and [ am sick of
the whole thing. But I have accom-
/ plished my object. The gold is in the
\ shale and my process will extract it on
a commercial basis. Now I am going
to attend to important work which
have been forced to postpone. I VIII not
! submit to further attacks for the work
which I do. The people back in Phila
delphia can not understand how it is
that I should be made the subject of
| such Inisrepres 1 am done with
{ Kansas shale. OF course my work Oh
! these assays is not fully completed I
expect to submit more complete and
| full report of my work at some future
day"
THE CONTRIBUTORS.
The following named gentlemen are
| the original contributors to the expert
! mental fund:
E s. Quinton, Eugene Hagan, c. K.
| Holiday H. P. Dillon, A c. KIinga-
man. F. E. Nipps. Charles Hayden. Jno.
! O. Myers, W. H Rossington.C. B. Smith,
Clifford Histed. r. W. Blair, F. W freeman
r L Vandegrift, C. J. Lantry. S. Ma
ley, W. W. Manspeaker, T T Kelly. F.
F. Grimes, W. A. L. Thompson, Jacob
Smith, B M. Davies, ". J. Black, d. w
/ Mulvane, S. S. OFT. W. H Cushing, Geo.
W. Veale, E. J. Dallas.