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Show 4 INTER-MOUNTAI- mining who would insist that the ore could be mined at a profit. But the smelters would figure the value out in this way: Silver, 5 per cent off for loss in treatment, leaving $6.27; lead, 10 per cent off for loss in treatment and $1.25 deducted for freight to New York, leaving $6.75; gold, $19 per ounce, equivalent to 5 per cent deduction for loss in treatment, making the value of the Total value of the ore, gold $9.50. Deduct $21 for mining, freight $22.50. and treatment, as above, and the producer would have but $1.50 left, a very slender margin. Of course these are facts well known to all who have had any experience in selling, ores, but other people are often misled by assay figures. crusade waged by certain Eastern life and fire insurance companies will cost them very heavily in cold cash, even if we have dollars. Already their weapons are being turned against them by their competitors in the silver States, and the following deadly parallel is present ed: A New York cor- Harris & Wilson of ' The gold-standa- rd 53-ce- nt writes: this city, agents of respondentMcCall of the Aetna Life, have John A. sent out the followLife the New York The old Insurance company ing letter: conwill Life no Aetna opis neglecting to its poltinue to show pay portunity his opposition to di- icy holders in either ver. A few blocks gold, silver or greenIts manaHall backs. above City gers spend their park, on Broadway, in time Life York working for the New of its interests erect the to is preparing holders. and policy They a great building, a high fence has keep out of politics been put up around and issue no circuthe excavation. On lars to intimidate this is a huge sign, free coinage patrons into voting lor reading: the gold standard, inches When six as one make many other life fool, When eight ounces companies are doing. make one pound, With a business xcaforty-siWhen sixteen quarts reer of have make one bushel, years they Then 50 cents will never run up the white flag or kept make $1, And the Populists bad faith with their will govern the constituents. United States. Other signs are constantly being Perry Belmont was selected to preside at the Bourke Cockran gold meet--' ing, and the gold standard press approved the selection. It was indeed an appropriate one. Leaving out of consideration the fact that Belmont was a member of the bond syndicate, which will resume business at the old stand in the event that the gold standard; ticket is successful, he has thoroughly mastered the whole financial problem. Upon his recent return from a trip to France he permitted himself to be interviewed in opposition to free coinage, and one of the reasons why he knew that the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 would be a bad thing was that the president of the Bank of France had told him that 15 was the honest ratio! Belmont is a proper person to head a goldbug campaign of education. There is a good deal of talk in the gold papers about a campaign of education. Out in Chicago, where every for is gold, the people are overpaper edwhelming for silver. The kind ofboomucation they give out acts with erang effect. The power of public opinion does not come from the newspapers not this year. Major McKinley is finding out that the support of subsidized papers is like The more a man has of it the worse he is off. New York Financial self-righteousne- Record. ss. MINING REVIEW. N metal, even silver, can be detected if present in the atmosphere. A characteristic line is produced upon the scala of any known or Dr. Emmenss Claims. BY PROP II. IIIRSCIIING. Bun-sen-Kirch- hof Within the past few days many mi- unknown element. If pure silver is ning men have approached me to in- subjected to a spectroscopic analysis, quire about the alleged invention of Dr. one spectrum or one characteristic line Stephen H. Emmens of New York. The is that no showing claim is that he can make gold out of other produced, is combined element or silver, and he uses for obtaining such alloyed into if and the it, results mainly energy in some of its temperature is increased, so various forms, such as heat, electricity, applied that the vehement volatilization creates magnetism, gravity, cohesion, chemical yet a greater fineness of the particles, affinity, X rays, and the like, an extrac- the line is demonwhich yet constant, tion of terms from elementary books of strates that the smallest particle of silchemistry and physics, upon which any ver is always the same, and does not high school boy can improve. There is into another element by dividnothing new about the forces or agen- change cies claimed to be used, and each one ing it into the smallest subdivision. of these natural laws mentioned con- Hence the dividing process is not the firms the law of the atomic theory. By medium of changing one metal into the application of these laws Dr. Em- another. Mr. Leas discovery of dividmens claims to be capable of producing ing silver into such small particles that at an expense of $10, from one ounce they enter into aqueous solution, is of an ounce of simply exposing the surface of any of silver gold, with the cost likely to be reduced metal for a long period, to an aqueous to $5. Then he refers to Prof. Mendel-ejef- fs solution, whereby the surface represents the smallest particle, and which discovery of the periodic law as an existing fact, and not as a theory, is in any case gradually oxidized on and bases his method of transformation the surface, and the formed oxides are of silver into gold upon physical ac- usually soluble in the menstruum. It tion, by utilizing Leas discovery, that is further known that most minute if metallic silver is reduced to extreme subdivisions of any element examined minute subdivisions, it can be dissolved under the most powerful microscope in an aqueous solution, and from this have always the same structure and result he claims that if these particles texture as the larger particles which or molecules, as he calls them, are still is additional evidence that by physical further reduced, the silver molecules subdivision one element cannot be conwill be dissociated, if they were in verted into another element. The foregoing covers all the cited themselves of composite structure. Now, every one familiar with the application of Dr. E. and as he is not atomic theory, as it is adopted in all proposing any new natural law, but scientific researches, knows that the desires to perform the transformation smallest indivisible particle of an ele- of silver into gold by means of well ment is an atom, and this alone has the known and developed natural laws, we property to combine with atoms have a right to claim that he is absoto of form lutely wrong and therefore our gold element another compounds, which are called mole- miners have no occasion to fear that cules. In the molecules the atom gold can be manufactured from silver, as it is against the natural laws and of any element retains its characteristic, as can be determined when it is the natural laws do not contradict each recovered again by electrolysis, be it other, but always confirm each other, in an igneous solution or be it under in which respect they differ from the the influence of the high potential elec- laws of men. The doctor gives the new trolytic furnace. In both cases the invisible original atom is reproduced and element prematurely a name and a by continuing the process, the atoms symbol, and refers to the action of acid and aqua regia will accumulate in such quantities that hydrochloric-nitri-c we can see the resulting metal or ele- and claims that the properare ties those of gold, without determent, and if subjected to chemical examination, it shows all the character- mining the most important facts about istic properties again as before. In a new element, the density and its The scientist this process atomic and not molcular would not a decision accept exchange has taken place; and as before a court of law, and thereatoms are necessarilly smaller than fore before the facts molecules, and no change from one ele- are positively ascertained and the sciment into another was ever observaentists have themselves passed upon ble, how is it possible then that by mechanical or physical an them, there will be reluctance in acdiscovery. element or metal can be changed from cepting the My impression Is that the inventor its original characteristic and structure has invented the sensational discovery Into another element or metal with diffor political purposes, as just now is ferent characteristic and different an excellent time to the peoproperties? It is acknowledged that, ple with a gold-silv- er hypnotize of by changing a solid substance into the this kind; but It cannot proposition give the docgaseous aggregate, its subdivision is tor any eminence, no matter what his indeed extremely minute, at least past record may be. smaller than it is possible to accomOn the Beehive mine, near Forbes-towplish by any other means, and upon this principle is based the Bunsen-KirchhCal., a tunnel 6 feet high, 4 the top and 5 at the bottom, was spectroscopical analysis, at driven 110 feet in 7 days and 8 hours, which is so correct and accurate that which is considered a very good the smallest traces of any element or three-quarte- rs so-call- ed ex-abru- pto electro-equivalenc- y. above-mention- ed sub-divisi- on so-call- ed n, of |