The new daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1872-1873, 1872-10-15
UNITED STATES BRANCH MINT
AT CARSON.

is now doing an immense business III
making impaired and refined bars, and
coin. Its first General Superintendent
was Col. A. Curry who started the works
and ran the institution until two years
ago this fall, when he resigned and II. f.
Rice was appointed i'll his place. Its bus
mess has been steadily and constantly III
creasing until every department is now
worked up to its full capacity. 10 give
a full description of the various depart
ments, and the working of each, will re-
quire more space than is desirable IN one
issue, and will be continued until COM
pleted.
A description of the locality of me-
chanical departments will be necessary to
a clear understanding of where so much
machinery is put, in so small d building,
and we will commence with the
West Extension,
Which cantains the carpenters shop I'M
der the supervision of John Erhardt,
coal room, room containing furnace and
boilers, with P McCarty as fireman, and
the engine room containing splendid
sixty-h horse power engine which furnishes
the power to run all the machinery IN the
Mint. Chief in this room is Dan Able
reliable and competent engineer. Next
in the order of things comes the
Basement,
Which contains all the shafting, the ny
dra,llic press used to press EXAMINATIONS
into solid bullion, the pumps, donkey en-
CINE, chases for grinding sweeps, ashes,
old pots, bricks, and all refuse which is
supposed to have caught and retained
gold or silver, of all departments of the
Mint. After grinding III this machine
which is built much like the Chile mill
for reducing quartz, it is passed to reg
ular pan such as is III use III quartz mills
for working silver ore. 1t Is here ground,
amalgumated and drawn to settler, and
worked by Oswald Parker, chief Of this
department. 1t is worked as silver ore
is worked in all our mills.
This pan and settler are also in the
basement and near the chases and crush
er. We found here the blacksmithshop,
machinist and plumbers shop and bath
ROOM water-closet and general storage
room. The blacksmithshop and that of
the machinist and plumber contain all
the tools necessary to carry on, repair,
and even make most of the machinery
used in the Mint. These rooms are I'M
der the control of John Lowe, black
smith, with Jake Straight as Assistant;
David H. Lentz, plumber, and George
Fleming machiniSt. The basement Is
entered by pair of stairs from the
north, leading from the yard, another
through the engine room, and by
the stairs from the main hall of the first
story or by the elevator. We came near
emitting to state the donkey engine used
for pumping water to the attic for gen
eral distribution is in the basement, and
is separate and distinct from the engine
above, but uses steam from the same
boilers when operated.
Second Floor,
Or in the first story, are situated the
rooms of the Weigher, Treasurer's Office,
deposit and melting rooms, melter and
retiners office, rolling, drawing and cut
ting, annealing and whitening rooms,
coming room and coiner's office, large
entrance and hall and stairway to rooms
below, and second story.
The Third Floor.
Contains the hall, Superintendent Of
fee, adjusting room, refinery, Chief
Clerks office, Assayer's rooms, labratory
and watchman's room. The attic con-
tains water tanks and store-sooms, and
has an entrance to the roof.
The departments established by the
are as follows: Superinten-
dent of the Mint, who at present is II. F.
Rice, our fellow townsman and for long
time citizen and resident of Carson;
Chief Clerk, l.. A. Bostwick, present in
cumbent; Treasurer's department, Lewis
Doron, acting Treasurer; melting and re-
timing, Robert Andrews Chief of depart
ment; assaying, Frank Hetrick Chief, and
coming department under the charge of
C. n. Noteware, coiner. These Chiefs
of departments all have sub-Chiefs and
assistants under them. Some control
many rooms in their department, and
others few. Each does his particular
duty and pass the bullion around until it
comes out coin. Tomorrow we will give
you the process of taking in bullion and
some of the processes it passes through
before the coiner turns 1t over to the
Treasurer in the shape of bright gold or
silver coin of the United States; and will
also give you the names of the ladies
and gentlemen, and the positions they oc-
cupy and duties they perform in this in
teresting department of the general Gov
eminent.
Personal Our staunch Republican