The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-04-13

THE BUTTE BOON
Nature and Extent OF the New Alice Mill.
Which Will Have NO Superior on the Pa
cific Coast.

stock the Walkerville bonanza for the LARGE
sum of ten million dollars, the necessity for
Increased milling facilities became at once
apparent. The permanence and value of the
property had long ceased to be a matter CT
reasonable doubt. The ability of the mine
to pay dividends therefore became a question,
not OF the amount of ore which could be
extracted, but OF the amount which could be
milled. Beyond doubt the twenty stamp
mill, i'll present operation, has paid hand.
sonlely before the mine was capitalized and
while it was yet in the hands of a private
company; but after being placed on the board,
with a valuation Of ten million dollars, a
pressing demand was created for the addition
OF largely increased facilities tor reduction in
order to insure the payment of regular divi-
bends. Competent experts, after a two
weeks scientific and practical examination of
The mine expressed deliberate opinion of its
capacity to keep sixty additional stamps in
constant and successful operation for many
years, and acting on their conceded good
Judgment, and strengthened by their W
solid convictions as to the permanent merits
Of the property, the Alice Company decided
to erect a new fOrty-stamp mill, leaving the
other twenty stamps for a third mill to be
constructed in the near future for the treat
ment of the free-milling ore from the upper
levels. The contract for furnishing the ma
chinery for the projected forty-stamp mill was
CnInn punnl.c al g., wv II IT .
resenting the firm of Griffith & Wedge, of
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, and it will be erected under
the personal and experienced supervision of
Mr.. Dunn, who has been long and success
fully identified with the compaay's milling
operations. The site selected for the building
is situated about 200 yards west of the old
mill, and its greatest dimensions will be 2O4
xl5O feet, exclusive of the ore house. The ap-
pointments, if such a term may be used, will
be exceptionally perfect, no pains having been
spared TO have all the machinery of the latest
improved styles, of a pattern best adapted to
insure the expeditions, cheap and thorough
treatment of the ores.
There will be two large Blake crushers
through which the ore will be fed to the forty
stamp battery, the motive power for which
will be a 250-horse power Buckeye engine,
and six cylindrical tubular boilers each fifty
four inches in diameter and sixteen feet long.
The latter will be set in batteries of two
each. They each contain forty-six three and
one half inch tubes. Two of these batteries
will be sufficient to run the mill, the other
pair being reserved so that II delay will be
necessary in case Of any disorder. The pan
capacity will be amply sufficient for all pur-
poses, twelve California combination amalga-
mating pans and one cleanup pan being the
number arranged for. The settlers will be
six in number and will be eight feet wide
inside of the slaves. There will be two CO.
inch Howell and White roasting and chlori-
dizing furnaces, one being situated on each
side of the battery for greater convenience.
The dry-kiln on the upper floor will be made
up of ia plates, each piece being twelve feet
square and weighing about 900 pounds.
The construction of the mill will require
$4,000 feet of lumber and 100000 shingles,
the contract for which has been let to Lavell
| Bros. If the present warm weather continues,
grading will be commenced in a few days, or
as soon as the frost is entirely out of the
ground.
The amount of freight necessary for the
building of tie Alice mill and the different
materials required to keep the two mills in
operation for one year is a silent plea for the
completion of the railroad to this point al
the earliest practicable moment, and we rec,
ommeud that some attention be given the
matter by the owners of the Utah d Northern
if they have any desire to do Il heavy trans
portatiou business. The tolM weight OF the
machinery for the mill is estimated at GOO
ions. The simple article of salt required fol-
chloridizing purposes i'll the two mills in one
wear will amount to 25OO tons, in addition tc
which there will be required many tons OF
other chemicals necessary for treating the ore
besides an immense amount OF duplicate
castings, pan and settler mullers, extra retolts
shoes and dies for pans and batteries, the dry
kiln plates, the weight Of which alone aggre
gates upward of 500 tons, the boilers, weigh
ing $500 pounds each, and the morlars eacl
weighing 300 pounds.
The new Alice mill, when completed, viii
be the model mill of the Pacific coast, for no
only is it the intention of the company t.
make it durable and perfect in all particulars
hut they are confident that the amount o
bullion it can and will yield will earn for it
proud record as one of the most successful
mills ever erected in any mining district o
the Union.
Race.