Show SMELTING BY OXY DROGEN lOtEN ni A 1 highly stice ant tet te t brom tho the 8 F r chronicle an account of tho the experiments recently made with stevens Ir elands oxy hydrogen furnace was bubli published 3 bed laet week in tho the chronicle yesterday a practical application of the new mcw and wonderful discovery was wai made at Gar Garrat ls brass foundry three cru cables placed in the furnace tiie the first containing coLta inIng pounds of silver ore odid to lo be from tho the lizzie bullock nine mine of san kan bernardino the second containing gold quartz from some mino tho the name of which was not furnished tho the reporter and the third containing twelve pounds of silver oro ore from the clayes anine mine in eastern nevada tho the furnace was then put pub in op operation cration the crucibles cruci bles being subjected to a beat of about 1000 degrees the cruci crucible blo containing the iho auriferous quart burst in a few moments in forty five minutes tho the crucible containing the san bernardino ore was taken out and the metal poured into a would when cool the ac brick was found v IA weigh nearly six pounds of floe fine silver god judges present at the trial ex the brick and pronounced it to be between and fine it was tho the general genera opinion that the re sult would have bare been still better had bad tho the crucible been allowed to remain ten or fifteen minutes louger longer 0 in the furnace the clayes oro ore was of a most stubborn character and the crucible wag wad bot taken out of the lie furnace until about one hour from tho the time it was butia put in the first result was hardly satisfactory too little flux having been used this fault was wag recoe remedied died and after a few heating tap twelve of ore yielded a bar of 0 silver weighing about half a pound taken altonet altogether the trials were C eminently satisfactory aud many of the mine owners present said that bat if they had had bad a furnace on this principle L tao 0 years ago they would be today many thousands of dollars richer than they are arc mr stevens has licensed the establishing of a furnace in denver city which within four weeks is to bo be ready to melt and refino refine ore the of this invention will undoubtedly greatly increase the profits pro fiti of rich mines and render profitable the working wording ermines which hitherto have not been regarded as worth working |