Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-05
GOLD FROM SEA
TDbSAN' 5 DREAM
SWEDISH CABINET MAKER BE
LIENtS HE HAS FOUND PRO-
CESS or SEPARATION.
is POTASH There. also
To Every Two Hundred Millionth
Part OF Ocean Water There Is
one Part of Pure Metal.

Gold from the sea is the dream of
Stoloff Jensen, Swedish cabinet
maker of Tulsa. who declares he has
discovered n process whereby he can
separate the metal from the water,
Potash also is to be extracted, and
the entire plant. according to the
cabinet maker chemist, will cost not
more than $4,000.
He declared with a plant of that
size he could take s1,300,000 worth
Of gold from the sea in a year. Mr..
Jensen proposes, after he has passed
the salt waters through his extracting
pumps and squeezed the gold and
potash from the, to return them again
to the seas, so that there need be no
apprehension Of the disappearance Of
these useful bodies of water.
I'm every 5000 pounds OF sea wa
ter" said Jensen, there is one
pound of potash. All chemists know
that. This being true, there must he
one ton of potash in every 100000
gallons of sea water and the problem
undertook to solve was how to get
the potash out for use in commerce.
Tonight l am able to say that l have
succeeded in finding the way of sepa-
rating the potash salt from water.
THE system IS very simple. All
that is necessary is common ground
furnace Stag treated with a weak iron
sulphate solution This is placed IN
the bottom Of a large tank and the
sea water forced up through it, leav-
ing behind a deposit of potash. the
water is conveyed to the Stag through
an eiyhteen-inch cinlrilgal pump.
one such pump can deliver 100000
gallons Of water every hour, a result
being the dposit Of one ton Of potash
every seventy-fiye minutes.
"The present market price of pot
ash is $3.50 ton, and by my plan 1t
can be reduced to an actual produc-
ing cost of 1915, which, with a dol
lar or two added for profit, would
bring the market price of potash
taken from the sea to $4 or s. a
ton"
HOW Ab YOU ktA ANt H'AA - NlAA ANN
sea?" the doctor was asked.
ITO each 2O0,OOO.0OO parts Of sea
water there Is one part Of gold. l
have found that when treated with
concentrated instead Of a weak So
luton Of iron sulphate, the furnace
Stag will retain the gold when the
sea water is forced through 1t. The
same kind of a pump is used, and
the water will leave SIS worth of gold
in the Stag at the end OF very five
five hours. Gold now sells at S20.G7
an ounce. l can get from the sea
for SO an ounce. N other words,
there is SO worth Of gold in 100000
gallons Of sea water"
Jensen said that a plant for ex-
tracting gold would consist Of twenty
eight eighteen-inch centrifugal pumps
and eighteen Stag tanks, each fifteen
feet in diameter and sixteen feet
deep. To run such a plant he said,
would cost about $500 a day The
output. he said, would be sS.6OO
worth Of gold, leaving a clear profit
of $4,000. The total cost of the plant
he placed at $4,000.
DO you intend to start stock com
panies to work the sea for gold and
potash? ?" was asked.
II do not" he replied. "T realize
that fakes have been perpetrated'
based on the fact that sea water con-
tains gold / have not patented ana
will not patent my process. but VIII
try to protect myself by keeping Sc
cret the formula OF my iron sulShate
solutions"
What VIII Nconp OF all the water
after It goes through the slag?' he
was also asked.
1T will 20 back into the sea- ho
aucuargd