Show MtMt ILT HIM GOLD Gold Is I the prevailing theme al well as the leading piodurt ot tho day Mother Phlptons prophecy that It should be found at the root of a tree meaning It It meant anything that people would not have to go to remote re-mote or bidding places to llnl It has been more than rIIIII Ince the yellow metal Is I being unearthed almost al-most everjvvheie Utah not being overlooked over-looked In the general distribution In tile midst ot such a plenitude with tile beat of promise 10rD evil tlnllano on an Increasing scale till agitation of the question ot whether gold can Ire I compounded or not would eem to bo 0mwhDt untimely and out ot plate Yet It Is being discussed tulle vigorously In placed e The hem IeDI theory Is I pla-ced that there In I hut one element ul which all the rest gold Iniluded are Compounds or varN sells And theo are other theories on tho subject one the production of n luIDn mDthemall In which h I pronounced as wild an Dnythln ever dreamed if by the alchemists 01 medieval times It Is fiddled with term 01 more or less apparent pro fundity and obscurity such DO vortices In the ether arid no on The story ot the New Yorker who recenlly took 130 worth 01 Fold union which lifl hal manutailurM to the government assay office nnd then demonstrated that It was over DO fine Is I a familiar ana arid Is J tolerably well authenticated This being a case in which a radical result piexumahl accompanies the theory makis It although al-though nn Isolated case famous A writer In the St Louis < IhOcmo l cmt shows thnt acrnrdlnff t th new chemistry It Is I possible thnt gold maybe may-be 1 chcmliallv produc at some lint In the future but Impostlble that Jt 1 should bo clone with our present knowledge of chemical ivntriesls that Is 1 of putting things tofether In fact our hemlstrv at Present Is almost wholly analytical bnsid on observations made when taking things apart As a science It Is I barely 100 sears old and nearly the whole of that time has been devoted to analyst It Is I only IA I the last generation gen-eration that chemists began synthesis working the great miracle ot making things which are ladlcally different front the Dme element combined In the same troportlons When they find that liquids having the vilest Imaginable Imagin-able odors can be changed Into the petfumos of fruit and flowers without changing their composition chemists do not say It follows that gold ran Ile > nialle ul copper they only Pay It my ho possible for thy oil know to Ih contrary 1cold 1 in I understood to bo t the pro Iot of Intense hot and Ioarlll priBvue lIke diamonds and other prtcliils sul stances extracted from the bosom of the t nrth Successful expert m nts arm now going on In Tarlslm Inc In view the production of diamonds from charcoal by alpljlng aitlfllally the conditions named It Is I all like the magUHns trick simple enough when Sou know how It Is I done and the know how Is I thus partly delineated The richest gild t region of America Is I tile reDl olnl1lo ridge stretching from the Aictio dcl IIhIlO1 to the Antnralc hi this si cut laboratory nDturo rOllnht her moL precious sub ptnniis by I IntenslfvInK ties forces to their nlthcal pitch producing heat through the pressure of the earthquake movements mhIch ralooell the mon tains from the original level of the paleozoic plain This heat nnd pressure pres-sure made crystals of gold anti silver bearing quartz through n natural pro colon closely related to that through which French scientists ore njv ot ten pung 10 mk dlmoml Whether er not gold Is l it simple nulstancc It Is I certain that It appears ns u product ot natures orkohol orly under conch tlors which produce quartz as what might bo tailed a byproduct ol the operation i This sounds very much like Flittering generalities a xoit ot Mucus n non lucendo1 or light that does not lighten only so far as relates to the general proposition previously stated herein In fewer words This doe but bring us back to the beginning ot the subject with the Inevitable question repeated what In I the good ot It still Ixcelit for purely scientific rcon and ns a I means of partially gratifyIng gratify-Ing u ertnln yearning to know the cause and origin of all things It Is I a matter possessing but slight Importance Import-ance A plan whereb the Meld ot laot or Iolatoe within n given area might be s doubled without the greater expenditure of time letter or money would be of Incalculably calculably mire benent to tho human family |