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Show MAKE STEEL FROM SAND. M Tho Paclflo coast has no ore mines, but what may provo moro productive, It lias a black sand which pmtnlsos to yield a good grade of steel, and Instead In-stead ot the blast furnaces ot tho rait. It Is expected that electrical furnace fur-nace will soon he devouring Ihn black sand greedily, And will bn pouring forth a stream of steel Ingots, "Within four month we w be making steel on the Paclflo roast, tho first lima that stetl ha out been produced pro-duced thero In rommerrlsl qualities." Ho ipaka C, I", Wllitm, who was the electrical expert at the l.ewl and Clark eipoltlon at Portland, and who had charge of tin rlertrlral smrltlng operations conducted by the government govern-ment there. "Wo will make our steel nn the Pacific Pa-cific roust from Iron contained In the black sands," Mr. WIUou went on to siy, "and Instead of the blat furnace that li Uixl In the rant, we will use the electrical furnsrw. There enough Iron In the blark sand of the pacific roskt to supply the need of tho world In the shape of steel fur getieratlun to come. That It has neter been UtIIUed before I simply berauve no way of separating the Iron from the land had ever ten devised." The Ingenuity of a Chicago man, Thomas J, Uitett, U said to hate solved the problem of how lo do this, and the Iwt iH-parsliH' It Is eiixxjled o readily ofclalN the lrw, Tho Unett faratr. It I claimed, III hBHdl the sand either wet or dry. and, In fsel, will do belter work when tbey are wet than when they ire dry All mtr the Paclflo roant Ihfcvw iHHdt akwed, and many of them trr Iron rasBUtg from (00 to 700 lWHds to tk luei This Iron, when eMrslMi tfom Ik .4iid., Is of the ItlBhoK gradM It Is lery fine, being rrrll 4owh Mi Ike Ml of the riven by im, sM Is ablviey free from tulphur- Heeauietof Its riutHM, this Iron rasnot U smee. Ih the ordinary bla.l fNnuet. It woW be blown out whHn the Wla4 was put m With the electrical fttnutr. however, (his dlf fkully Is overcome Out It I mM that the vett separator sep-arator U not alone for the recovery of Iron, but for the reeovery of the gold and other valuable mlnorals with H which all tho black sands of the Pa-. H cine coast abound. fl fly runulng thoso sands through the H ljvett separator tho Iron Is pulled out H or tho sand by powerful mngnots. H Thon tho sand Is ready for the placer H miner operation, and, being (rood from thu msitnottto or iron, tho gold Is read- M lly concentrated, ns well as any othor H precloui mineral that the sands may contain. Tho I'nltod States govern- H merit has for soma year been con- M ducting a series of experiments with tho black sands ot tho Pitclflo coast, but the object of theso experiments M was solely to see' If thoy djd not cost. .H tain platinum In greater, oy cs quan- H titles. Tho supply or platinum In. th H world Is extremely, llmltod, ami main H ly comes from Husslu, and at tho out H break of the Russian and Japanosi M war this supply wns sarlously threat H A few yours ago congress voted an H Aif-iroprlatlon of t 0,000 to tho "United H Htaies geological survey, and tho In- H r tH First Steel Inrjot From the Elcetrle H Furnsce. M vestlgatlons of this body round tha isH the blak suuds did contain platinum sH hut nlo round that In many casei they carried gold values rouging a Bl high a $000 and 700 to tho ton. Only small proiiorllon or this valuo, how !9fl ever, could over bu recovoro.1, because sH or tho presence ot Iron In such latKO kesssssl I quantities. B |