Show MAKING GOLD FROM SILVER Just now it looks as though the whole world might be overrun with gold The stories of gold in the icy north recall the days of 49 such days as the world never saw before and the stories told of the untold golden wealth of the icy north are rivalled by those coming from the land of the Montezumas And great undoubtedly as the gold deposits in Alaska and Mexico are Staten Island in New York bids fair to outdo out-do them and all other gold fields combined com-bined A telegram to the Chicago Inter Ocean says that gold is being manufactured manu-factured there The maker or trans muter of this gold is no less a person that Dr Stephen H Emmons It will be remembered that he first made his announcement about a year ago and then the scientific and the common world laughed at him He was termed a crank and a dreamer But they laugh best who laugh last and Dr Emmons now laughs He is now able I to point to the fact that his manufactured I manu-factured gold has stood the test of the I United States assay office in New York and the office has purchased six ingots of his product aggregating 7086 ounces in weight and nearly 1000 in value He does not call his product gold but argentaurum It is made from silver that which he sold to the government assay office having been manufactured from Mexican dollars dol-lars The secret of the process is unknown un-known but Dr Emmons says that the agents are lots of cold and plenty of impart How they are applied only he and those in his secret know Writing to Professor William Crookes F R So he frankly says The gold producing work in our argentaurum laboratory is a case of sheer mammon seeking It is not being carried on for the sake of science or in a proselyting spirit No disciples are desired and no believers are asked I for Naturally there will be much skepticism I skepti-cism that silver has been transmuted into gold but the position of Professor Emmons in the scientific world is such that great consideration must be I I given to any statement he may make regarding any discoveries If he is not deceiving himself he has made one of the greatest of discoveries done that which philosophers and alchemists have been trying to do for centuries and centuries If he really has a new light it will be impossible for him to hide it under a bushel for any length of time |