Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-08-23
WONDERFUL MACHINE
SEPARATES GOLD

oI Louls, Aug zS.-Gold, silver
copper and lead that have rested in
ne same ore since the world began.
separate themselves at one of the
unique exhibits at the worlds fair.
md seemingly of their own volition.
before the eyes of the visitor, carry
themselves in a most mysterious fash
ION to compartments man has pre-
pared for them.
There is always something fascin-
ating about grains of bright and shin
ing gold, and doubly so when the met.
81 is displayed in great quantities.
This may be seen in Utah's great ex-
hibit in the Palace of Mines and Met
allurgy, where at the same time and
place may be inspected one of the
most mysterious machines that the
Ingenuity of man has invented. Not
None may the visitor look, but he may
ouch and examine at will, and even
more. He will be given a quantity of
the precious metal to carry away with
nim to do with as he well, and the
&Duvenir is not without value.
The metal after all impurities has
een extracted is carefully placed into
mall glass phials, and these are
*iven absolutely free to visitors. All
d the metal may not be pure gold
But there is some gold in each little
bottle, and some of the bottles con-
lain gold that will sell for as great
y sum as $5
The mysterious machine where this
Transformation of the metal takes
place is called the New Concentrate
pr," and it represents absolutely the
latest and most perfect machinery to
be found in mining enterprises. The
machine is no toy. 1t is a practical
thing, and does its work perfectly 1t
was installed at a cost of more than
$4,000. Every day it uses up five
ions of ore that is easily worth on
ithe market $50 ton, and the product
Eis given away to anyone who visits
the Utah exhibit and will accept this
unique souvenir of the fair
The great machine, which stands
30 feet in the air, and is built of bur
nished steel, copper and silver, is en-
dowed with an intelligence in classi-
flying ore that the human mind can
never acquire. 1t appears to exert a
secret and mysterious power over the
metal, and in compliance with its
wishes the particles separate and
Bcamper heterske,ter to the homes
prepared for them.
The ore that is fed into this Won
derful concentrator comes from the
Cactus mines, owned by Sam New
bouse, in Utah, and the exhibit is
made not only to show TO the world
Die richness of the ores of tnat state,
u has been claimed that no area OF
Equal size in the world can produce
30 varied an assortment of rich ores
as can that wonderful state.
The concentrator does not resem-
Bile any machine that was ever made
Long FURNISHED steel tubes spread
but over it and run from the top to
The bottom. They cross and recross
Hke the tentacles of an octopus.
Through these tubes pass the ores,
with the water, and, assisted
By it, separating and going on their
way to the places assigned for them.
When the ore reaches the worlds
hir grounds it is just as it comes
fINm the mine. Barring occasional
stIeaks of gold-bearing quartz of sill
yer, lead or copper, the ore does not
diffet greatly in appearance, when
viewel by the unpracticed mining |
man, rom the limestone and sand |
stone q1arried in Missouri and Illi'
nois Tie ore comes in chunks the |
size of mans head and even larger |
Below the machine is a powerful
The chunks of ore are
crushed to particles which the expert
in charge of the machine says are the
size of a pea gravel" Tae crushed /
ore falls into a bin and is carried to
the top of the machine in kind OF
elevator contiivance. One can look