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Show Cheap Aluuilnuin. Winnemucoa Silver State. As sure us electricity is the motive power of the future, so sure is aluminum alumi-num the metal of the coming age. In our issue of tho 20lh hist., we published an article on the wonderful metal. That article all rat-ted tho attentiou of Prof. W. L. Thompson, who is on his way to Willow creek to start up the mill he built two years ago, ant', who dropped Into our oflice on his way thither. Speaking of a liiminuin, ho exhibited a nuggett of al otit five ounces of that metal, which he had produced from cla. It was a beauty. About as soft as filver, but softer in its silvery brightness; bright-ness; more malleable, moro ductile lighter and far less liable to oxidation. He said ho had been working for about three years on the production of cheap aluminum, and had made aiont encour-aging encour-aging progress. The professor said he had reduced (he cost from $8 per pound to about 75 cents, and hoped to reach the figure of 25 cents per pound. He hopes to be able to resume his experiments experi-ments an i soon as he gets through his labors at illow creek. |