Show Wonderful Device Designed to Detect M e ta t a 11 0 F d e i Presence of Metal at Distance Ex Exhibited Exhibited in Salt Lake If It the does all that It Js Is I hoped it lt will do there will presently be beno beno beno no hidden secrets s crets under land or 01 sea so far as minerals are concerned The metal lode is a new Invention and Is the product of the brain and energy of L D Stoner of Reno G D Johnstone of Renoa prominent mining man Is a guest at the Wilson He has with him a toy model of the met with which he entertained a com corn company company pany of friends in the offices of ot M 31 M 31 Warner In the Commercial bank building yesterday afternoon Judge Warner Is an anold anold anold old friend The model Is only a tiny thing but It seems to behave perfectly It finds min mineral mineral mm eral and metal no matter with what sub substance substance substance stance it Is concealed or covered cover d The model Is about six Inches long and two inches wide and contains a battery has haq hasa a telephone attachment and a finder which Is a little disk that Is passed over the surface of any substance covering mineral When the finder Is directly above a mineral n substance the telephone receiver gives warning or perhaps bet better better better ter to say announcement of its pres presence presence presence ence Only Toy Model In yesterdays simple tests Mr John Johnstone Johnstone Johnstone stone used a number of or metallic sub substances substances substances stances including a silver dollar When these were covered with glass plates equivalent to silica and the dollar hid hidden hidden hidden den beneath the finder Instantly Indi Indicated Indicated its presence This Is only a toy that 1 I I have brought with me said Mr Johnstone and can scarcely be called a model We have made successful experiments with ma machines machines machines chines which have detected the presence of ot mineralized bodies at a distance of ot sixty feet the capacity of the apparatus We e arc are now having constructed a ma machine machine machine chine which will be four times as power powerful powerful powerful ful and capable of penetrating the earth to a distance of feet I 1 do not know how the thing is done myself but the Inventor applies the wire wireless wireless wireless less telegraph principle with a kick back so that generally speaking a current will be sent into the ground out of or one pole and if it encounters mineral it Will iii Instantly interrupt or dampen the buzz buzzing buzzing buzzing ing noise you hear in the receiver May Use Phonograph Plans have been made by Professor Waltz and others to experiment with a phonographic attachment It is the the theory theory ory of these scientists that th S interruptions Interruptions interruptions will be noted on the phonographic record It is Mr Stoners belief bellet that when his Invention Is finally perfected he will be enabled to send out search warrants for minerals wherever they may be bo Experiments Experiments Experiments ments under water have demonstrated that the apparatus will do Its duty when it comes within range of the object sought May Be Located Not only does this machine indicate the presence of or mineral mineraI but by triangulation triangulation lation It may be approximately located The projecting machine with which the tests were made in Nevada weighs only twentythree pounds the foot projectors will weigh pounds While the machines detect the presence of metals It does not indicate their character The American company com pan has I been Incorporated In Nevada to promote the enterprise but no machines will be besold besold besold I sold until every detail Is perfected Wide Field Opened I If It Mr Stoners invention proves suc sac successful i In the mineral zones extensive I tests will be made In ocean depths so I that one day all the Spanish galleons 11 and their stores of gold may be recovered recovered recovered ered Captain Kidds treasure will no longer be ba sacred and the buried burled horde of any other howling bowling pirate that roamed the high seas will be brought to the surface It Is expected that the invention will ultimately be extensively used in detec detective detective tive tire work |