Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-05

Otan. May l..
The emigrant train which left here
this morning at 7 O'Clock, struck an
OK in a cut forty miles east of this
place, ditching two engines and six
freight cars and instantly killing an
engineer and fireman. Their names
are not yet known.
The Anti.ChInese Movement.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.
Half a dozen Anti Chinese ward
clubs held meetings last night aud
further discussed the present eugro>-
sing topic. The Fourth Ward Club
~rendezvoused at its usual place of
meeting on Kearny street, near Pa
cific, and listened to the customary in
cendiary harangue of its President.
DIR. G. c. O'Donnei. There is quite a
general feeling that his oratory may
some night result in active lemon
stration unless measures are taken to
suppress him.
Burned to Death.
LIvERMoRE. May 3.
The cabin of Jas. GOWN. a farmer,
living six miles north of here, was
destroyed by fire last night. Parties
passing this morning discovered the
smoke and fund Colvin's body in the
ruins burned to a crisp. Prom the po-
si.ion Of the body it appears that he
discovered the fire and atteln pied to
escape, but was smothered by the
smoke. Deceased was n single man
and temperate in his habits.
The Fryer Reduction Works n Sue.
ess Description OF the Pro-
cess.
GRASS VALLEY, May 4.
The Fryer reduction works were
opened to the public this forenoon,
when the machinery was set in mo-
ton. A large number of persons were
present - miners, capitalists, editors
and correspondents rom every part of
the State and from distant States and
Territories. The whole apparatus il
entirely different from anything in use
before, and consists Of q furnace de-
signed to roast at a high temperature
refractory ores in order to reduce
noble metals to a pure state before
amalgamaiion. The second operation
is treating the roasted ores in a revolv-
ing apparatus of octagon shape pro-
vided with sixteen cylinders five fee.
long and twenty inches in diameter,
equal in capacity to "a five-stamp bat
terry. Quicksilver, hot water and some
cheap chemicals yet unnamed are
placed in the cylinder with roasted
ores. The heads of the cylinders are
tightly closed and the pulverizing ap
paratus set in motion al the rate OF ter
revolutions a minute. A cylindrical
weight of $50 pounds in each cylinder
falls twice upon the ore in every revo-
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powder, while at the same time anal
gamation is going on. After six hours
Of this treatment the cylinders are
opened and the pulp elected through n
pipe into the separator, where 1t il met
by q powerful stream OF water at
the bottom Of the separating vat
which keeps the pulp in active motion.
The amalgam falls into u receptacle al
the bottom of the separator. and the
sluns float off at the top. These pass
through a rotary square box provided
with copper plates to catch the smallest
particle Of amalgam, il such could pos
sibly escape. The amalgam is imme-
diately drawn off and retorted, and in
twelve hours from the time the quartz
is first put in the furnace, the result in
bullion il obtained, averaging from 90
W W PNt ~ va tuO oNN1 w sathO Nj
the ore, and that effected at a very
small cost. With free ores the furnace
is omitted, as the puiverizer IL sutfi-
cient without IL. An the machinery
started the octagon pulverizer moved
Off as quickly as though il hal been in
use for years. MIR. Fryer. the inven-
tor, and Mr.. Hall, President OF the
Fryer Noble Metal Mining Company,
were both warmly congratulated at its
uccess Mr.. Hall, who had waited to
witness the Inauguration of the enter
prise, left by the afternoon train for
New York.
WOODEN Mills Burned.
PORTLAND, Oregon, May 4.
At half past m o'clock this morn
ing the Willamette Wooden Mills at
Salem were discovered to be on fire.
The department responded promptly,
but its efforts proved unavailing. The
mills, with a number of adjoining
buildings and a large quantity OF