Show GOLD IS WHERE YOU FIND IT experiments now under way or reported to be by chemists of butte and professors of the university of minnesota most as bear the imprint of utter absurdity but then so did original reports of wireless telegraph possibilities and the more recent experiments with wireless telephony instruments for which soon are to be carried in our vest pockets according to the daily press and so dreams which led up to hundreds of the worlds great inventions and discoveries wore were regarded by scientists as well as the public before the pioneers in invention and re proved themselves right and the IM masses asses wrong even columbus was a hopeless imbecile in the opinion of his contemporaries por aries the minnesota stor story Y is carried by associated press dispatches of recent date and though everyone is skeptical and fearful of a hoax in such matters the bare possibility opens a vista of the presence of unsuspected acted wealth which warrants passing jh the dispatch along for what it 1 is s worth its improbability adds to its interest even to the practical man for few are successful who do not have their periods of dreams and air castles this is the story as sent over the wires that gold is not only where you find it as has long been the adage of the prospector but also where it could not be found even by a qualitative chemical analysis is an axiom which butte mining chemists are hopeful of proving in operation cooperation co with professors of the university of minnesota the object of their experiments is to prove that gold exists in a certain yellow lime rock in a form or condition which no known method of assaying has been able to break down or reduce to its element and they also hope to discover a process which will make possible the extraction of gold in commercial quantities from a rock which as yet cannot be proven to contain gold should the experiment succeed a section of minnesota which has yielded nothing but lime may be converted into a gold mining district assayers and chemists who have not been employed in this experiment are inclined to class the suggestion as an absurdity on a par the centuries old dream of the alchemist of manufacturing gold but those engaged on the experiment are still working experiment started with minnesota chemists in analyzing fine dust for the extraction of antimony and arsenic they were astonished toni shed to find that the dust ran approximately in ill gold per ton of dust nothing but yellow lime rock has been burned in the furnace and an analysis of the lime rock yielded no trace of gold the butte chemists were called upon for assistance because an electrical process employed at a local mine laboratory develops a most extreme heat after weeks of analytical aly tests a trace of gold was discovered it is declared but succeeding tests failed to corroborate the results of the experiments further tests however are being made in the hope of finding a means of extracting tr acting the gold if it is really present from the fhe rock |