Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1913-03-27
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Fortunes in Prizes Waiting to be Won.

Fortunes IN Prizes w altlhS 10 Dc w Ch.
Every little while report gains cur
rency that million-dollar prize has
been offered for the performance of
some impossible mathematical feat or
the invention of some contrivance OF
problematical value. Many innocent
persons have been deluded into spend
ing their time and money in the pur-
suit of these phantom prizes. Feeling
certain, however, that there must be
many genuine prizes waiting to be won,
Popular Mechanics Magazine communl-
Gated with the flfty-ive foremost
scientific organizations of America, the
one hundred largest industrial and
trade associations and the ninety prin-
cipal learned societies of foreign coun
tries. The results of this investigation
are reported in an article in the April
magazine. 1t states: "a dozen for
tunes, even as fortunes are reckoned
today, are lying, in cash, in the treas
uries of as many organizations, to be
awarded as prizes to inventors, dis
coverers and scientists. Scores OF
lesser prizes, any one of which repre-
sents a splendid reward for year or
two of labor, lie unclaimed, waiting for
the man who is able to fulfill the con-
ditions of the gifts. Much of this
prize money is the interest on mex
haustible funds, and is given annually
or at other stated intervals. But much
more of It is in single large amounts
1000, $4,000, $4,000, $25, O0O-even
one great lump of $780, 900 is waiting
for the first person who can prove his
claim to it.
"There is S23, 800 in Germany for the
first person who presents a perfect
proof of a well. known mathematical
theorem. There is $4,000 in France
ready to be given to anyone who fines
cure for one of the commonest DIS
eases. And, to get nearer home, there
are sums ranging all the way down
from $4,000 offered in America for
mechanical devices that are sure to be
invented sooner or later.
Largest of the prizes awaiting il =
ventors is the 100000 offered by the
international Association of Recogn2 =
ed Automobile Clubs, for the best sui =
stitute for gasoline. This prize, which
was announced last December, is to lie
given only for some product that can
be used in existing internal combustion
motors, is available in large quantities
and is of such a nature that is cam t
be monopolized by a trust Other con-
ditions are yet to be announced. Here
is a prize worth winning. Exper :
ments with benzol, with methyl alcohol
and with a mixture of the two, have
encouraged inventors to work alorp
those lines, but it is possible that some
American will come to the front with {
new volatile hydrocarbon, or with {
satisfactory method of carburetil G
kerosene, that will capture the is
prize. And the winner does not have
to yield ownership in his invention t.
get the 100000, but like most of tn,
other prizes for industrial research
this prize is a bonus, not purchas,
money.
''Should the new fuel, when found
be capable of manufacture from SOM
substance produced in Great Britain
there is another prize ready for the for
tunate inventor, the 1000 guinea
(S10, 500) offeren by the British Societ
Motor Manufacturers and Trader
Tor fuel that meets this condition
The Royal Automobile Society of Eng
land will conduit tests of all fuels offe,
ed for this prize.
''Along the same line of automobil
Improvement is an opportunity to wi
81, 500 by simple mechanical inver
ton. This sum will be paid by tn
Royal Automobile Society of Englan
for the best carburetor, the fund ha,
ing been placed in the society's hanc
by Mr.. G. K. Chamberlain, an Amer
can. This contest is open, like til
others mentioned, to inventors of a
the world.
''The largest standing prize in Amer
CT for an invention is one of $10,0
Tor a machine for pulling and toppin