Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-27

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the end Of the seasons taken for COM
parison when No. 4 hydrocyclc only ran
Is days, and No. 5 only 10 days, while the
three stone furnaces ran Is, 26 and 81 days
respectively. Nor was this all; instead OF
comparing the coal consumed in March
which was 1871 bushels per ton of ore, with
that consumed by the hydrocycles IN
the same month CAS- bushels), the coal
average for the stone furnaces for March
is obtained from the average for the fol-
lowing month Of April. when it happened
to be only IS bushels per ton; as a further
injustice. the quantity Of material smelted
in the two hydrocycles in March together
working only % days. is understated to
the extent Of lI6 tons, this amount Of
Dresses having been smelted in these fur
naces, in addition to the 1872 tons OF ore
and fine dust.
Probably the best comparison is to take
neither the Committee nor Mr.. Probe.ts
figures, but to take the average OF the
stones and hydrocycles respectively. for the
three months ending February, and it is by
this means found that on "a three months
run the stone furnaces consumed 39'375
bushels per ton of ore, whilst the hydro
cycles consumed 3s.795 bushels per ton Of
| ore, the difference being rather more than
half a bushel per ton Of ore in favor Of the
| hvdrocycles. 1t should have been stated,
| too, that whilst the Committee stated that
there had been about Is, 900 completely
| thrown away on them (the hydrocycles)
| the total cost OF the three furnaces com
| plete together, with the furnaces, was as
nearly as possible half that amount. The
stone furnaces required five men per shift
of eight hours, or 10 per day; the hydro
cycles require three men per shift, or nine
men per day. The labor CO per ton Of
ore smelted is about the same in both
kinds of furnaces. bnt TIE cost for repairs
is far less in the hydrocycles.' In regular
working, the stone furnaces have con-
sumed on the average 32.72 bushels, and
the hydrocycles, 1920 bushels per ton Of
ore smelted-that is, the stone furnaces
consume II per cent. more fael than the
hydrocycles.
Mr.. Eiler's report is so inaccurate as to
the details of the construction Of the ny
drocyclcs that his remarks upon them are
worthless; it is, therefore, unnecessary to
fully give Mr.. Probert's refutation of them.
The Committees statement that the pres
ent success Of the stone furnaces is very
much due to the more liberal use Of
quartzy ore as a fiux' is shown to be err
r~oneous, by table Of the ores and fuxes
used each month from January, 1875, to
February, 1878, which shows that after the
final enlargement of the furnaces there
was no appreciate difference.
1t is shown that the assayer, Mr.. L. II. Da-
brook of the facts)-did not leave Enreka
because lie could not obtain appliance and
Office room, but because D. Stringer, at
that time smelling manager, desired to re-
tain the assayership for lis son. The as
saying apparatus had been mysteriously
destroyed before Mr. Davis arrival. When
Mr.. Davis returned to San Francisco he
was quickly r~e-engaged by Mr.. Probert,
and has remained in the company's SER
vice. giving great satisfaction ever since.
The value Of fume-1ues is too we'll known
reference to the Committees peculiar
notions concerning them. 1t was Mr. Pro-
bert who first introduced the flue in the
United States, and he is given full credit
in the Cover nment report for having done
SO; and Mr.. Probert says, No sooner was
the fue pnt up at the Richmond Works
than it was adopted Immediately without
acknowledgment by our neighbors Of the
Eureka Consolidated Company, as we'll as
by the Philadelphia Lead Company OF
Pittsburg, and at a later period by Mr..
Salt Lake--a sufficient endorsement of its
value in the eyes OF the managers OF these
establishments Assuming the guess Of
the Committee to be correct, that EGO
worth of fums is still lost daily, the hue
has saved so per cent. OF the former waste,
since it catches $50 per day, or has re-
turned the Company f4S, 900 since its
erection, the total outlay upon it having
been s2,400.
As to the general management. Mr.. Pro-
bert remarks that the Committee have all
through their report betrayed such an utter
want Of judicial mind, calm temper. and
freedom from prejudice which should char
a~cterize persons entrusted with such func-
tions as theirs. that it is not surprising to
find them o assuming more and more
the character OF counsel for the prosecu-
tion.' aud even indulsing in invective and
personal abuse. Not only are their earlier
insinuations and allegations reiterated in
referring to tho general management in
varied form, but new accusations are in
troduced which hardly appeared in the
original Indictment, and which but for the
rancor displayed in making them would be
amusing from their extravaganza. He
passes over their personalities. little con
cerned at their attempts to make
him out on the one hand an imbe.
cile, and on the other a charlatani
nor will he treat the general ACCUSE
tions which they have leveled at him with
any greater respect than to give them a
general denial, which he now does. He
notices only such Of these new accusations
as are sufficiently defnite and precise in
their nature to justify the trouble Of resuta-
tiun. He states that Mr.. Elliot, the late
| chairman, correctly represented at the
meeting in 1872, the position in which he
tMr. Probert) stood when he went out to
the mine. be went out as a simple share
| holder and in no sense rs the agent Of the