Santa Fe Daily New Mexican

REDUCTION OF REFRACTORY ORES.

The active interest men of science are of late manifesting in the treatment of refractory ores and the many practical experiments they are making to that end vitally concern the whole mining world. The results of these timely efforts promise great things in the way of advancing and adding to the profits of the mining industry; promise to make valuable thousands of gold and silver prospects that are now idle because no one knows how to extract the precious metals from their ores at a profit; promise thus to give constant employment to thousands of more men and add immensely to the metallic wealth of the world. Among the most earnest and untiring of these scientific experimenters is no less a man than the justly celebrated Thomas A. Edison. He has been quietly studying the subject for years and believes that he has discovered the true way of getting the gold out of pyrites, sulphurets and other refractory ores, and has bought a mine in North Carolina, yielding ores of this class, for the express purpose of practically testing and proving the value of his new method. This lends national interest to his investment, and his experiments will be watched with deep interest, particularly by the people of the Rocky mountains. Many of the largest and (according to assays) richest ore bodies in this great mineral bearing region are rendered comparatively valueless by the presence of sulphur, antimony, arsenic and other refractory materials, and if Wizard Edison succeeds in overcoming this difficulty by his new method of reducing ores and consents to run on a 16 to 1 free silver coinage platform, he can count on the suffrages of the west for any position he may happen to want.