Deseret Evening News | 1897-05-25 | Page 3 | Could Not Make Gold

Court Nol nk field WASHINGTON May 4Durloll iie last inrte weeas force expert metallurgists metal-lurgists I Connected with lh mint bureau bu-reau have been conducting H mont Investigation In Ibo laboratory of the treasury department Into the claims 01 a man uameu E C Brice that he bad discoverer a process for producing or creating silver Rod gold iron the bane melslf etc including chemically pure antimony Homo ruonlbs ago Mr Allies appipall for a patent on his process pro-cess watch was denied pending an actual feet The report 01 the expert lliwatDa test in every detail and concludes as follows During the experiments which hove flow ulondu over some three Weak and have Involved au amount of palHilaulug labor which we hope ban hot been entirely wasted we have Been nut the slight I 9 evldenao of any creation or transmutation On the contrary the claimant failed lu every Instance lo recover the entire movies ot sliver and cold known tu bo present lu Ibo materials