Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1876-04-03

Legitimate enterprises, and in that he
is most assuredly right.
HALL AND FRYER.
BILE, can ever be satisfactory found
alton on which to predicate the val
ue of ledge. Fryer says: "Gentle-
men, if you want to sell your mine,
and you are confident that ii is valu-
Since they came to the city many
very wealthy men have visited them,
and many poor men as well, but
both classes are treated with courte-
Gus consideration, and with all the
enthusiasm and evident admiration
of the Sc who come to see them and
who believe in the new system of
reduction, they keep themselves per-
fectly cool and collected. They
have undoubtedly struck great
wealth but it has had no effect upon
their brains; they are undisturbed.
/ have seen in their rooms represent
ations of great mines from every
State and Territory on the Coast,
Mexico and Australia, and the two
gentlemen wear a.. air of the most
complacent serenity that would do
honor to philosophers. Nothing in
flates them; but they realize none
the less tina. they shave got it," and
when the conversation takes that
turn it is clearly seen that they have
their eyes all over the world.
They expected, think, to publish
the whole process when they set out
from Grass Valley for this city; but
telegram from their patent attorney
in New York restrained them for a
couple of weeks longer, and the pro-
curing of patents in foreign coun-
tries only has been the cause of their
past silence; but this restraint will
soon come to an end, and miners will
be astonished at the simplicity of
what tney have so long waited for.
To the question frequently asked: :
"Can the Fryer process be extended
to any great capacityl" | may say it
can be extended indefinitely, the
same as a five-stamp mill can be ex-
tended to fifty or five hundred
stamps, and only about one-half the
volume of water. Nothing is as yet
said definitely about prices; but |
think, from what ! have listened to,
that the Fryer apparatus will cost
about 1000 to one tons capacity
that is, furnace running ten tons of
ore per day, and all the associated
apparatus for ten tons, will cost in
the neighborhood of $4,000. In ex-
tending this capacity the cost will
probably be less proportionately; in
diminishing the capacity it will
doubtless cost more to the number of
tons. 1t seems to run in Flyers
mind that a five-ton furnace will be-
come popular-that is good size to
start with. His notion is that poor
men with rich mines can, and should,
begin in a small way, and as they
can have bullion in a dozen hours
from the moment they put their ores
in the furnace, they should only
work their richest ores first, make all
the money they can, and with the
accumulations of their gains add to
the working capacity of their appa-
ratus till they have as large reduc-
ton works as they can profitably
handle. Instead of working the
ores indiscriminately-say fifty tons
in day--it is better to pick out
five tons of the best ores and work
these, leaving the poorer ones till ac-
cumulated capital makes them con-
venient to handle. There is also a
streak of hard sense running through
his cranium on motive power. The
wreck of many mans fortune has,
as we all know, been the hasty de-
sire for great mill before the devel-
opments justified large expenditures
Companies, like individuals, have
believed too easily and too much,
and the whole capital Of company
has been expended upon the pur-
chase of stamp mill ann the en-
CINE house, and left nothing to work
with. Fryer says: Take an engine
on wheels, run It up to your mine,
duu ~ W Woih II VIZ VIC Shouiu
not prove as profitable as you
thought, move your engine and ap-
paratus to another ledge that prom
ises better results, and so keep at it."
He has some idea of constructing
one-ton apparatus that can be
hauled anywhere by two horses, and
where miners want to try their dis
coveries, or purchasers want to invest
before they have the process estab-
lished in that locality they can put
up the. nne-ton process with horses
tor motive power and run through
the ores. A few weeks of that appli-
cation will enable any miner to know
what he is doing, without working in
the dark for weeks and months in 'un-
certainty. SEW
|. Within n week or two your corre-
spondent will visit the Fryer works
at Grass Valley, and give your read
ers the details of this simple process.
which now threatens to disturb the
the commercial values of silver and
gold throughout the world, out
which will inevitably create an era
of prosperity to every branch of COM
merce effected by the facility Of ex-
change in precious metals. NJ
LCBERAL.