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Show JUST COMMON CLAY. Wizard Turns It Into Anthracite by Extracting the Aluminum. (Milwaukee Sentinel.) For the purpose of interesting .Milwaukee .Mil-waukee capital. Homer F. A.. Warken-stein, Warken-stein, Chicago. yesterday afternoon turned sticky red clay from Cudahy into smokeless coal. The metal pails or poots and a porcelain porce-lain dish, surrounded by mysterious looking bottles, graduates and baskets of clay, figured in the experiments. The young Inventor took chunks of clay of "the different species and puC it In separate sep-arate nails, and one kind went into the 1 dish, with a board over it. Then lie 1 uoured something -Into the pails out of a larae bottle, following it vith a deluge i of something out of a graduate. Thia I. mixture was permitted to "work" awhile, and then came the application of the newlv invented chemical agent, which I turned into smoke as sooon as the air Ftruck it. The pots of clay were permitted per-mitted o remain untouched for some time, and when thev were finally opened there was a shiny, black, crisp substance, that, looked like anthracite .and which the demonstrator said costs but $1.05 a ton. This is what is claimed for It: With fiftv tons of clay forty-one tons of coal can be made through the chemical chancre. There also drips out of the percolated per-colated mass about twenty-nine pounds of aluminum. "The process Is a clear proposition," snld Mr. Warkentien. "It is simply the extraction of the aluminum and the transformation of the, heat-producing dualities, which abound in clay, into the form in which ft is found in coal, by a chemical change, and the injection of carbon Into It. in an Inexpensive manner. man-ner. The Arizona College of Mining has indorsed the invention, as have also the chemists at the Smithsonian institution." The preparations are poured into a top can and trickle down on the clav. changing chang-ing that common stuff into vari-colored chunks of brilliant and sparkling coal. The aluminum is also separated and the chemicals trickle into the lower compartment com-partment and are saved, but this was not used yesterday. |
