Arizona republican., 1906-04-30

fhis own and those of other people who
 succeed in interesting him. He says i he has repeatedly spent time and mon 1 ey on enterprises that failed, but he
 has also had some very flattering sue
 cesses, and if he were as good busi-
 ness man as he is an inventor he would i now have money to burn.
 Speaking of the Victor company, he
 says it is now buying lots of property in Camden and proposes to erect there | laboratory for the making of rec
 ords, which work has hitherto been
 done elsewhere. In respect of the rec ords. he says there have been many im- provements in late years. The latest and best is the making of what is called 9 Master" record. Heretofore the original record was transferred to copper matrix, from which a thou
 sand or fifteen hundred records could be pressed. after which the results were unsatisfactory and it was neces- sary for the singer or talker to do his
 work over again if additional records
 were required. By the new process
 there can be taken from the original many master records, from which many copper matrices can be taken, so the number of records that can be supplied to the trade from one original
 song is practically unlimited. Con-
 corning the securing of original rec
 Ords, MT. Rinehart says the Victor company employs only the best must clans and the best voices, sometimes paying therefor almost inconceivable prices. He names instances of great artists who have been paid as high as s1O0O to $15OO for a single song.
 It will be remembered that when he | was here two years and a half ago Mir. l Rinehart had on hand a project for saving placer gold, that he hoped would | revolutionize the gOld-saving business. | He acquired control, for experimental l purposes, of a quantity of ground on | what is known as the Horseshoe bar | on the Agua Fria river, north of Phoe- nix, and there erected o model of his | plant for experimental purposes. H. was asked about this project yesterday and said that so far it has proved | failure and he has laid it aside for tn he | present. but hopes some day to take 1t | up again and make a success of it. He says he demonstrated cOnclusively that there is more gold in the world than most people believe. but the trouble is to collect and save it. He said that i with his process he saved S60 ton out of the Agua Fria sands but the only trouble was that it cost him $1OO a ton to do it. Quicksilver was the final saving agent, and when he would first start the machine it would work suc- cessfully, but soon after the quick silver would lose it's virtue seeming to be handicapped by the presence of some foreign substance. To prevent | this or to employ the chemicals neces- sary to clean the quicksilver made the expense of the undertaking greater n1 #,.I 3rl.. ] this difficulty there was one other point of trouble, and he has not ye: had time or opportunity to work them out, but he still believes.he will make a success Of it some day
 Reverting to the statement Of the II vast amount of gold in the world, ne II says that if he can ever get his process perfected he will show some surprises, II for there is gold almost wherever there is dirt, although it is spread out pretty Il thin in some places. Still he believes that there is enough even in the Jer- II sey sand to pay to operate if he can overcome the two things that now keep II him from saving what he knows is there. In illustration of the general II of the metal he spoke of II it's peculiar softness and the ease with II which it is worn away by erosion. He said a person could lay a en-dollar II gold piece as gently as possible in an Il agate mortar and take it out again II and with the proper instruments 1t II could be seen that certain infinitesimal Il particles had been rubbed off in that slight contact. And so it is that in | gold regions the precious metal 's moved from it's original source and ev- erything it comes in contact with ab- sorbs some of it's value, until the hill sides and bars of this western country are all made rich in gold, only waiting for the inventive genius that will some day devise a method for collecting it.
 MT. Rlnehart while enjoying his honeymoon here. expects to make a number of side trips into the surround ing hills to look at certain mining prop critics he has had in mind since his last visit. and which it may be said he has designs upon, though at present he has no definite plans.
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 F.. $. Clark and H. J. Becmcr or Pres colt passed through the city yesterday en route to their homes al Prescott. ' after making a trip on legal business into the southern part of the territory. l