| Show IAN CAN LOO ATI om S SG G C W S Wilson Inhibits Exhibits I Hi Ills Wonder Wonderful miler ful fitl ril George decree W WIon Wilson has hus lust reached the city el cit from Crom Los I Angeles with w h nn nn In Invention venlon which Is l comparatively new JW In II mining circles In this city Mr Wilson Wison proposes to give lve some BOrne practical of tho the same ame In the mineral belts of ot mountain ranges but hut for tor tho the present he lIe Is la explaining tho the operation of oC the machine to In tho the city Mr tr M ItT H II Walker Is Interested In III the Invention the more so since Mr Wilson come collies COle welt well wel recommended He le has hns promised to look Into the tho invention to tomorrow tomorrow morrow An exhibition of oC tho the little machine was made today before Judge Fricke which quite Impressive The Tho machine Is II worked by electricity anti and the underlying principle Is the con conductivity of oC certain metals for tor the tine elec dec electric trio current Electricity J as ns Is its II well weI known travels In circuits along the path of least resistance tance and this fact IR lii i utilized In III II the new Invention of at Mr 11 Fred H It 1 of ot Los Lo Angeles AnJell Tho rho machine consists of oC a 1 battery batery which Is connected with an nn electric apparatus on Oil which the resistance of oC any alt all ni ma materials materials Is marked oft of of in ohms ohma ohl Two wo bind binding binding ing In posts appear on iTt the tine machine to which are Ire connected Insulated copper co per wires Each Kach of ot these wires connect at atthe ft atthe the other end eld with brass rods which are arc Inserted In the ground to say aay feet Ceet apart The battery batery Is then lien turned on and ond a n telephone receiver applied to the ear car This receiver gives out a n loud noise nolie noL e until with wih another Instrument the operator linda finds nd tho the exact resistance offered by the ground In the tIne return of oC tine the current from one ono electrode or rod Iod to the tho other The he resistance In ohms H to marked on the electrical machine machin and andas ns as soon Boon as n the exact c t resistance Is 15 touched by the Instrument In the opera torA hand the tho noise In the th telephone t receiver ceases The he amount of oC resist resistance ance Is iii then noted In barren earth carth the alce resistance Is naturally much more than It Is where any mineral mineraI appears appear Thus where I there Is a I resistance of oC ohms marked on the machine It I U Is I concluded c that tho there Is no metallic values in the tine ground for Cor a I depth of oC at least 90 feet The rods rodl are arc then moved again and when mineral minerai lies les beneath the tho surface the tho resistance becomes very low Jow the themore themore themore more so 10 the greater the quantity of ot mineral The machine Is IA said aaM to to hove have given good satisfaction In Joplin Mo Ito and In un John of oC J Los s An Angeles Angeles n geles testifies to its IK having disclosed the tile location of r a blind ledge of oC rich ore some distance beneath the surface |
