The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-09
HAVE THE MONEY.
Gold Shale Men Ready to Build
Topeka Mill.
Fahrig Process to Be Given
Thorough Test.
THEY WANT TO KNOW.
If There is Gold Intend to Find
1t Out.
Location For the Mill Not Yet
Selected.
THEY WANT TO KNOW.

Enough money has been raised, so c.
K Holiday and other Topeka shale
men say, to more than pay for the
construction of the proposed Fahrig
test mill in Topeka. Those interested
refuse to state whether the amount
raised is more or less than the $4,000
which it was the intention to secure.
Just say that we have all the money
we want" declared Mr.. Holiday.
Yes" added E. S. Quinton, I'VE have
had several offers of money which we
have refused to accept We have all we
need, and more too"
1T isn't our object to accumulate a
lot of capital for this test said Mr..
Holiday What we want is to get
some of the strong business men of the
city banded together in the common
cause of finding out what there is in
sthe shale. If there is anything in it, we
want Topeka men to stand together on
the ground floor
No definite arrangements as to the
location of the Topeka mill or the time
when work will begin have yet been
made. 1t is claimed that as soon as
DR.. Fahrig send an eEact list of the
machinery and material needed, the or
der will be placed. I'VE can have every
thing ready within week after we get
Mr.. Fahrig's list" says Mr.. Holiday.
Fred Webster, the Topeka coal man,
has offered to donate all the coal need
ed to run the engine for the test mill,
while it is in operation here. Moeser
Bros. have gone this offer one better
by offering to furnish the mill with all
the electricity and water it needs, be-
sides allowing it to connect its engine
with the big steam engine in the Moeser
plant, all on condition that the COM
pany will build a temporary mill ad-
joining the Moeser plant.
Still another scheme which the gold
men have on foot is to secure from the
waterworks company permission to use
old
CINE and building for its tests. 1t is
thought that there is room enough in
this building for all the machinery nee
essary to the work, together with an
engine which will furnish ample power
to operate the machinery.
The chief objection to the acceptance
of the Moeser offer is that the MoeSer
plant is so far away. A temporary mill
building would be too cold for comfort
during the severe weather which is like
Iy to be here after the mill is in opera
ton
If there is anything that makes the
shale men sore it is to have the news
papers take shots at them. Just now
they are all laying for Ed Howe, who in
a recent issue of the AtchiSOn Globe
said that he had always considered W.
H. Rossington, w. ]. Black, F. l. Van
degrift and others of that crowd as
men of good sense, but that since they
had invested in Trego Shale they would
have to go on his jay list.
Il suppose" said f. S. Quinton, that
on this same line of argument, Mr..
Howe would put Prof. Haworth, of the
state university, in with his list of
great scientists. 1 would like to defy
Mr.. Howe or anybody else, to name Il
single reputable scientist who has ever
tested the Kansas shale and failed to
find gold"
The Topeka gold men claim that Prof.
Haworth never made any assays of the
shale, but simply had some of his
students do the work, he accepting
their results as conclusive.
The Topeka shaleites speak very en-
coura gingly of the scheme which Hays
City people have on foot to build at
Hays City test mill for the Motz pro-
cess of extracting gold. The plan which
Hays City proposes to try is similar to
that being used in Topeka, except that
Hays City. will raise 81 600 to test the
Motz electrical process while Topeka
has raised $4,000 to test the F'ahrig pro-
cess. Mr. MOTIFS process is believed to
be very similar to that of DR.. Fahrig.
1t has been used and is being used with
| good success in various parts of the
| country Mr.. Motz is a South Carroll