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Show THE ELLIS ORE REDUCER. The invention of Mr. Harry Rives Ellis promises prom-ises to revolutionize the working of many classes of ores. It is nothing but throwing the metals off in fumes, which is old, but then stealing the values from the fumes, a little trick to accomplish which many a chemist has grown gray in attempting, but has never succeeded. The saving method of Mr. Ellis is purely mechanical and Is as simple as it seems to be efficacious. A column of water, supplied by a pump, falls through a vertical pipe and draws the fumes from the furnace with it; the pump continues to lift the water as fast as it falls, and when the charge in the furnace supplies no more, fumes, the pump is stopped, the water settles and the treasure is in the reservoir. It looks as though Harry ought to be rich enough to be a candidate for United State Senator by year after next. But if the invention is what many believe it to be. others will be rich, for all that will be needed will be to buy a muffle furnace, a little H engine and pump and half a hogshead for a reser- H voir. Then a little fuel and salt will be required, B the charge put in the furnace and the fire and the ' B pump started. One man would be enough to run H a ten-ton furnace, two men enough to run it day H and night, and there will be nothing to carry away B but the bullion. To reduce ten tons a day, about B 1,000 pounds of salt, two tons of coal or four cords B of wood and perhaps 200 gallons of water will fl bo needed. It is still "in a measure in the e-xperi- B mental stage, but it seems to be all O. K. B |