Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-04-21
SILVER zSh HE Ton.
How it is Worker up by the Bo
nanZa Snelters.
From the Virginia Chronicle

Tue Consolidated Virginia Company
ook possession OF their new assay office
on the site IF their fOsm + iii at tn
mi q, last Sunday The building is 45x9;
feet. and two stories in height. Tilt
~" lting room is 22l5x4 fee; and is pen
10 tbeepeaK Of the roof. in order to allow
II the free ascent of smoke and fumes. To
render the room stll more htalthful, q
eentIlafor will be placed in the peak OF
li' roo that will run It's whole length
/" ben the arrangement Of The room viii be
perfect.
Last Sunday all the apparatus war
moved from The Savage assay Office, aud
beside making this 'ransfer, they melted
LOGO pounas OF bullion, and had it ali iii
he shape of bars be;orc clock in the
ev ming. In addition to doing all this
work. Trey made over sixty ore assays.
o. Monday the, melted ard aged
over ton Of bullion. and considered 1,
nothing NOR Inn u hol day Yesterday
there were melted 5,lG0 pounds, worth
,bout $4,000 There ere eight eurna ces
i'll the melting room, and ,h.y y devour the
crude bulio very rapidly. A ..mrlt'' is
low made in all hour and half, whereas
he usual time in ordinary utflces is two
hours and half The cupel room is 18x24
and cO,,tains TWO furnaces Of three muf.
lies each, In the same room is the saEd
oath and apparatus connected Herewith
rhe weighing room is 12x15, and the office
md Calculation room is 12x24. IL s,ese
wo rooms the assays ars- weighed and all
he ns ccs-ary calculations are made.
In the ore assay department there are
we crucible furnaces with g C pacity OF
twenty cruciblcS each. In addition there
will be scariiica,ion furnace containing
from twenty to twentyfour scarititrs
he>e will be used in making assays Of
very rich ores, as tie method is more
pccdy than by the use Of crucibls. IL
his department there viii lie a cupellng
furnace containing two Iutflers, a weigh
= e-fOam. etc.
hr ugh the melting room and the rooms
III which the bull,on assays are made, and
II this hall here were ON Monday piled
a. silver bricks worth 1926, 1000 In q
aaIl, :ayp :tp f6t, tf66t Ie.at one side OF th..
more stood cooling in the ine,ing-room
II all, 1928, 900 in sight at one time. This,
with the 100000 melted, moldcd into
bricks and assarcd yesterday, makes a
grand total ot $!25, 600 stored in the office
turing HE past three days
Besides the rooms we have mentioned
..' the ground floor there s a store room
tox20 a bath room and room; also a large
room in which will be set up an apparatus
Tor making humid assays All the assay
ny is un. er the superintendence 0t
G hambers G. Davis, late melter and re
iner at the United States branch mint q,
Denver. 1t is intended that their silver
oars shall so into all parts of the worlG
for JUST what they are Stamped
Mr.. Davis says thr Office IS capable o
melting and assaying $4,000, GOO pei
month Once in each mOnth-at the tim,
of general clean up is made n, the mill
: he saws he will do bigger work than hal
ever been before seen on the Pacific coast
At these times he will probably melt ant
,s>,y in one day tlllWD to the ya;ue o1
$500, COO. The upper story of the build
,ng contains the main business office o.
he company, 24x3O feet in size; two pri
lya.c offices about 14x18; q spacious hall
IN the side OF which is strong vault 10
coin aud other yaluabIes, exlG, with ON
or two sleeping rooms. bath rooms, clos
cts. &c.