They then tried to make gold from minerals that were free from the
precious metals, but this experiment failed; no gold resulted.

In making their report of the attempts to make gold, the committee
pronounced them failures.

They said, first, that in the attempt to extract gold from metals known
to contain gold and silver, Mr. Brice's process had only extracted a
portion of this metal.

Second, that the claim of making gold was entirely without foundation.

Mr. Brice replied to this, by complaining that the commission did not
follow his formula.

He declared that certain chemicals had been used which he had expressly
stated would ruin his process if added to his formula. He said that the
commission had also declined to use a certain apparatus which he
insisted was absolutely necessary to obtain the desired results.

Mr. Brice says he will go to England and try his experiments there, and
offer Great Britain the wonderful secret which the United States has
refused.

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A new method for using electricity instead of steam has been tried on
the railroad.