The Florida agriculturist., 1907-11-13
YOUNG PEOPLES DEPARTMENT
Edited by JUNGLE CHARLES. "

gauze SCREEN which is made Of cop
per wire, and is highly charged with
electricity from this storage battery,
that is our first drawing card, as the
precipitation, or cosm1c dust falls on
this screen or is drawn through it by
electricity it falls on a plate which
is covered with mercury, and around
this plate you see is canal Or gutter,
which is filled with muratic acid
This acid, by agitation, is washed
over the mercury plate, thus narchQin
all the cosm1c dust into the canal, and
as the gold settles to the bottom
slides are opened, carrying the gold
down pipes to the nitric acid in the
bottom, which removes all other base
metals, and there you have the pure
gold. I think with this size 'Accum-
u1ator,' with horn only fifty feet in
diameter, that we will only be able
to obtain Cor attract) about one bushel
of pure refined gold in thirty days,
but a good bit can be obtained in
a few hours"
Twill you allow me, Billie, to ask
you one question:"
ooh, certainly, certainly he re-
piled, with his thumbs thrust in the
arm holes of his vest, "anything you
don't understand, just ask"
"Are you sure, Billie, you have the
acid, perfectly tight, without SOL
der?"
ooh yes, only little solder on the
ends, not much; it is riveted first
81 hope So" I said, cas- I wouldn't
like to see the muratic acid fall down
and mix with the nitric acid unless
in proper proportions"
"Oh, there is no danger; try and
find some other fault,' he snapped
After Billie gave instruction for the
men to take down the 'Accumulator,"
number each piece and pack in the
waiting freight car, we left our treas
ures CD and rode home.
For the next few days Billie was
hopping around "like a chicken with
its head off," getting our money
maker" shipped, then came a respite
for about two weeks while Billie
followed the car to Florida with wires
and tracers.
One evening he joyfu11y remarked:
"Well, she has got there all right,
and now can you have your vacation
so we can start south Monday?
"I guess so," I repled,' if you in
sist on me accompanying you."
"Insist, we'll, I should say I do
insist" he retorted;" there are lots
Of things you can do: help hold the
crowd back, and attend to minor de-
tails"
Don't you think we had better
place rope around the 'Accumulator,'
about quarter Of a mile from the
machine, to hold the crowd?" [ ven
tured to reply
ooh, Of course" he retorted, very
sarcastica1ly," make it mile and three
quarters, anything to please you"
We left New York Monday morn
ing, and at nine o'clock Tuesday night
we stepped off the train at Kissimmee.
We made Our headquarters at Nor
rlsOn's Inn, SO as to be near the
grounds on which we had selected to
erected Our machine
''It is also near the depot" [ feel
ingly remarked to Billie. He gave me
whitening look, but remained silent.
By ten o'clock next morning Billie
had a large force Of men at work,
unloading and erecting the "Accum-
Of December, and a fine day (about
like our Northern days in June), and
Billie intended to give his "hrst per-
formance" in the art Of gold-making
on New Years Day. On the twenty
ninth and until the first Of January
there was something doing in Osccola