Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-05-13

only living persons who are acouainte
 with the secret feature of the proces
 whereby, he says, silver bullion wi
 be dumped into the hopper at one en
 Of the mill and be delivered as gol
 slabs at the other. He has the entir process recorded in a book. which i
 decades to come he expects to stand a
 the unchangeable record of wonder ful discovery and which will take ran
 with the great scientific achievement
 of history.
 "To change silver into gold it
 necessary only to rearrange the ion
 and electron conditions of the atoms, /
 said MT. Hunter in scientific terms
 when his plant opens for business.
 In simple terms this is my proved
 theory, shown to be intensely practica
 by these specimens" and he produce,
 two glass vials, one of which was file,
 with shining pebbles of gold, which il
 their former state were silver quarter
 dollars, the inventor said. The other
 vial was full of messy chunks of gold
 which is growing "bolder" every day
 according to the alchemist, because the
 secret process is still in operation OH the original slivers of silver.
 "Leave nature to herself" he said
 "and she will produce gold from sil. yer in centuries of time. I have dis. covered natures method of transmu. tation and applying it directly to the silver do in fraction of second what nature does in hundreds of years. That is all there is to it.
 Assume that we hay an atom of sil. yer, greatly enlarged, SO as to be seen and we will find that each atom will be composed of say 75,000 little partl- cles, like planets, flying around with lightning rapidity, but at no time leav- ing the limit of their orbital range rela- lovely to each other and to their sun. The first thing necessary is to destroy the activity of these little particles and this necessitates de-electrifying them, 80 that their polarity and inductional capacity is nil.
 Assume that under these conditions we have collected these elements in a box. We then, as it were, gather up l37,62O of them and impress upon them the proper electric charge or eleetron and set them into motion in a new orbit. al range. Capitalization is a secondary feature of the process.
 Ut is now accepted by scientists that all metals are composed of one substance, and that, whether the metal is gold or silver or copper, depends only upon the grouping and sleetron conditions of the primary par .icles or irons. Metals of lower atoiric weights are all positively transforma- ole into metals of higher atomic weights. Gold differs from silver only l n the following particulars: Its atomic weight is 1866 against l0s for silver, 70 that it's atom is nearly twice as leavy, and therefore contains almost vice as many primary particles of ions.
 Its electron or polarized condition s different, due to the different group. ng of the ions; different crystaliza- ion is produced, the specific gravity is ifferent and there is difference in the of the atocs and specific endency in the direction of crystaIiza. ien.D
 All of this means, according to the nventor, that he takes the baser met Is and proper quantity of silver, ap lies his methods and the result is that , he ions are rearranged and are crystal. ,ed into gold that the government ex- erts at tho mint cannot distinguish rom the properly mined article of the 'ukon.
 "Will this discovery not shatter the Ionetary standards of the worlde" was sked. " Not in the least,' replied MT. Hun IT. "In the first place out plant when
 is completed will not have an annual atput of more than s1O0,O00,OOO. That
 the limit I have set. We do not pro- ose to kill the goose that lays the olden egg. l do not desire. to work gertime manufacturing gold. I. will necessary for me to devote my per 'nal attention to the secret part of the rocess of manufacture and one does ot wish to work too hard when he is aking hundred million a year.
 "Our annual output will be one 'urth of the entire annual gold output the world and will just about make } the necessary deficit made necessary the annual increase in population and S e demand for gold. The gold stand. I d will not be impaired in the slight. s t. n "We shall keep on hand about two ns of silver for use in the manufac- re of gold, but silver is not neces- ty. By my process gold can be man actured from other metals, at such a ficulously low cost that 1 am ashamed
 say what it is. 1 am confident we n produce gold at cost of not l0I in nts for each dollar of gold produced. d course there is no loss in the raw k lterial.' u Mr. Hunter said that at the beginning n ,uble may be feared from the govern W mt when his process gold is offered th r coinage at the mint. "That will be n minated whon. the newness of the m m siness has worn of, '' he said. "Then W
 will take up the entire time of the 1T iladelphia mint in turning out money (. 'm our product. That is way We are RI ating our plant in Philadelphia right ne re
 against the government mint" Perfect alfalfa hay 45e to 75e bale