Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1877 — A Floor of Silver. [ARTICLE]

A Floor of Silver.

On the dosing up of the Smith & Rogers silver-plating concern in New Haroom wa* take* up, banted, and the ashes analyzed, with ti»e result of procuring pure silver *o tfceamauni of mi . This result is aotsoUtranigwkfc apponn at 4rst sight. Tks-preotonaTaetols amrrepaWe of extreme vo*atiH»ition Und*r heat, becoming mere vapors, which may be condensed, resulting is the production of the metal in a puns form. u&ut. even without heat, the pardoles of gold and silver are made so exceedingly fine, m the processes of thakinufacfagfrof gold ana silver foods, whether solid or plated, that no devices for saving the material abraded or thrown off In the manipulations are entirely effectual, Bven In the Gov. ernment assay offices the soot deposited in the chimneys from the melting of the crude mJMlMt|fiabie; and in most manufactories of articles and ail. vw die proprietors do not allow the workmen to retain their work-clothes when wo ? c o&t2L fFlZL*** erallv suffideii.U) procure new trarraeuts -anoldtapw# iwt belonging to a bench Zploy^Tvtten^^m