The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-07-13
THAT NEVADA TLUE DUST.
Lem. Q, Goliath and Els New Enterprise.

Lem. " Goliath ana Els New Enterprise.
Last February, Mr.. l. q. Goliath, a Sal
Lake mining operator, and owner of larg.
smelling works some six miles from Sal
Lake City, came to Eureka and bargainei
with the Erie Consolidated Company fol
the purchase of the immense accumulation
Of dust at the Consolidated reduction
works. A sale was effected at the rate Of
$8 per ton, and it was calculated that
the amount to be delivered would reach
10000 tons. 1t was known that the fue
dust was very valuable, samples of it assay
ing from $40 to $50 per ton in silver and
gold and carrying large percentage OF
lead and iron. A great many experiments
have been made at the different furnaces to
find some method of working the article so
| as to leave margin of profit, but with
little success, and the dust carried off by
| volatilization and caught in the condensing
fiue has, at most of the furnaces, been al
lowed to accumulate on the dump pile.
The Richmond company was an exception
to this rule, that company having reworked
| it in the form of slime, but experienced
smelters having been of the opinion that
nothing was gained by this method, the
added moisture and increased fuel no more
than counterbalancing any profit derived
from the second working. Be this, as it
may, the sale to Messrs. Goliath 6 Co. was
eonsummated, and Mr.. Clark, one of the
Salt Lake firm, having negotiated special
rates with the railroad companies-$13 per
ton freight from Eureka to Salt Lake
commenced shipping the articles. The
Utah ores lack iron necessary for smelling
and fuxing, and it was calculated that as
the dust carried twenty per cent. Of that
metal, it would in great measure dis
pense with the necessity of buying iron
ore, and leave the precions metal as a
profit on the speculation. In this way was
fact accounted for that Salt Lake
smelters could ship the dust from Eureka
and work it at profit. This was in conse-
quence of certain discoveries having been
made in regard to methods Of working it
a discovery that dispensed with smelling
entirely, and introduced an old and very
simple process. Mr.. Goliath, in coniunc-
ton with one of the best experts in the
Territory, Mr.. Wallace, tried number of
experiments as to the best method of reduc-
ton. Finally, the idea occurred to them
that the pan process, the same as used in
an ordinary quartz mill, might solve the
problem. Five tons of the dust were ship
ped forty miles to distant mill, and we
understand it was treated the same as tho
pulp from underneath the stamps. We are
not positive on this point, as the discover
ers are very reticent, but the dust was run
through the pans, and the result was that
the working process gave return OF with
in 81. .43 of the fire assay. AS soon as this |
experiment proved successful, Mr.. Clark
proceeded to San Francisco and opened ne
gotiations with Geo. G. Clark, principal
stockholder of the Lemon mill Of Eureka,
for the lease of the mill property. The me-
Eotiations have been pending for month
past, during which time we have been in
of the facts, but under pledge
;;6s min, and auEhof1zsd gvhtesf bRldes in
,n company, has leased 1t to Messrs. Clark
3 Wallace, W who will at once renovate and
put tie mill in order. We understand that
hey will not only work the dust by their
process, bat also any free ores that may be
found in this vicinity.
The innsaartance of the enterprise to Eu-
.eka can hardly be exaggerated. The loss
By volatilizatSon is estimated at thirteen
per cent. On every ton Of ore that goes
INTO the furnace, and If this process of
rorking that wastage is success. it adds
hat much to the galue Of all the ore ex-
;racted, less the difference between the
return and the fire assay-a very small
,ne, rs shown above. We hope the gen.
;lemen will meet the ceward due their en-
srgy and shrewdness. s.-EWreka Sentinel, |
Jasne II.