The Lear connection again? Interesting.twigsnapper wrote: Mining. A special method of mining. Work done in Reno under William Lears control. There have been faint whiffs and I do not blame you for being sidetracked. A mine that is not actually "pinched out" but diverted.
Now this may be completely unrelated, but talk of a 'special method of mining' that reduces rock to dust, especially in the context of gravity control, has to bring up John Keely (and the Theosophical Society) sooner or later. And where that leads to, I don't know, because it's probably more suited to KeelyNet. But, well:
http://www.theosophical.ca/KeelysSecret ... ction.html
http://www.theosophical.ca/KeelyAndScienceP1.htmlKEELY’S SECRETS:
INTRODUCTION
by R. HARTE
(Secretary. Theosophical Publishing Services)
July 1888
reprinted from “Theosophical Siftings” Volume - 1 -
[The following introduction to Mrs Bloomfield Moore’s very valuable essay on Mr Keely’s discoveries has been thought likely to interest the members of the T.P.S.] [Page 3]
INTRODUCTION
A short time ago the mining world in America was seized with an inexplicable excitement. The values of gold mines in particular suddenly rose. Mines long since abandoned on account of the expense of working, awoke, and rubbing their eyes made their way again into the stock list. Presently it leaked out that a syndicate of the longest-headed and wealthiest mining capitalists were quietly buying up all the cheap and apparently worthless gold mines they could hear of, and people at once concluded that "something was up". Then everyone of a speculative turn, very knowingly began to buy worthless gold mining shares at ever-increasing prices, and when the little speculators had gorged themselves to the full extent of their financial capacity, they asked: "What next ?" No one knew exactly what he was after; and everyone looked to the Syndicate for the next move; but the Syndicate smilingly put its hands in its pockets and whistled ! After the fever came prostration. The small fry had not, like the Syndicate, bought to hold, so they got first uneasy, then alarmed, and finally panic-stricken. The tide of credulity turned and began to run out even more quickly than it had set in, and thousands of the unlucky, but greedy little gudgeon of the Stock Exchange were left stranded in a short time by the receding tide of speculation, kicking and gasping in the mortal agonies of financial asphyxia. The panic is easily accounted for by the general laws that govern the movements of the Stock Exchange; but not so the action of the syndicate. The problem remains: Why did the long-headed millionaires buy up worthless mines ? That is the point of interest, and the explanation thereof is as follows: —
A few weeks before the panic occurred, twelve "solid men" — millionaires — met by appointment in a certain laboratory in Philadelphia to witness an exhibition of the disintegration of quartz by a new method. They were mining magnates, who had a tremendous interest in getting the gold out of quartz rock quickly and cheaply. The inventor obliged them by simply touching some blocks of quartz with a little machine he held in his hand; and as he touched each block it instantly crumbled into atomic dust, in which the specks of gold it had contained stood out like boulders in a bed of sand. Then the twelve solid men solidly said: "Mr. Keely, if you will in the same manner disintegrate some quartz for us in its natural place, we will each of us give you a cheque for — dollars". So off they all went to the Katskill mountains, and there the twelve solid men pointed out a reef of quartz on the side of a mountain, as solid as themselves; and Mr. Keely took out his little machine and said: " Gentlemen, please take the time". In eighteen minutes there was a tunnel in that quartz mountain eighteen feet long and four and a half feet in diameter. Then Mr. Keely quietly returned to Philadelphia with his cheques in his pocket, and the twelve solid men went from New York to San Francisco to gather in the seemingly "worthless stock " of mines long disused because of the working expense, thus producing the disastrous effect upon the mining world, which we have just seen. [All these men bound themselves to secrecy; and this is the first time that this incident has been made public.]
How was the quartz disintegrated ? —That is one of Keely's secrets.[Page 4]
The disintegration of rock is, however, a very small and accidental effect of that tremendous force that lies behind the "secret." Indeed, that particular application of the force was a chance discovery. One day the inventor was studying the action of currents of ether playing over a floor upon which he had scattered fine sand, — the ether was rolling the sand into ropes, — when a block of granite, which was used for fastening back a door, disintegrated under his eyes. He took the hint, and in a few days he had made a "vibratory disintegrator".
http://www.theosophical.ca/KeelyAndScienceP2.html
http://keelynet.com/keely/klyanec1.txt
A picture here:
http://www.svpvril.com/DisPix/Disin1.html
And here perhaps we have a link to both the early music industry, and to Canada?
If this story is true, is the stock market panic referred to the Panic of 1873 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873 ?