The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-06-09
THE PIONEER STAMP MILL.

THE PIONEER STAMP MILL.
The Pioneer Stamp Mill, better
known to everybody last year as the
Good Enough Company and perhaps
it would be well to explain matters 4
little right here. The Good Enough
was a stock company formed in New
York, and during last summer while
the mill was under course of erection
the company got into litigation and
become somewhat embarr assed. So
much SO that Com. VIM. H. Webb, a
wealthy and enterprising citizen of
New York, who had advanced nearly
all of the money on the enterprise,
was compelled to seize the prop
erty in order to secure himself and
run it on his own hook, as
he we'll knew that stamp mill in this
camp was good investment. 1t being
late in the fall before matters were
adjusted last year, they were compelled
to abandon the completion of the mill
until this spring. As early as practc-
able this spring, MIR. Marshall Webb,
accompanied by Prof. Jacobs, arrived
ready for business. No doubt the
name "Good Enough" sounded
somewhat odious to Mr.. Webb, so
one of the first things done was to
change the name of the mill from that
to the "Pioneer MILL" so that
hereafter the man who says "Good
Enough y is in danger Of hell FIRE and
birthstone.
The Pioneer Stamp Mill is being
finished up in the very best shape and
Mr.. Webb says he will be able to cele-
brate the 4th of July by footing the
steam whistle from his 100 horse power
engine, and he expects to be turning
out silver bricks by that time.
The 10000 pounds of machinery
that was delivered to the Pioneer some
two or three weeks ago, consisting of
pans, settlers, reverberatory drying ma
chine, roasters, etc., is rapidly being
put in place, and the success of this
mill will have considerable to do
with the success of our camp this sum-
mer in the way of treating ores; there
fore it should be the earnest desire of
these men to see that the mill is thor
oughly in order before starting up,
which we have no doubt they will.
They are only putting in 10 stamps
now, which will be more of an expert
ment than anything else. If they
work all right and are a success, whhh
we have no doubt they will be, ans
other ten stamps will be added imme-
diately, which can be done in months S
time from the time they commence on
them. The drying process is different
from the old style being reverberatory
cylinder 21 feet long and four feet in
diameter with a furnace on the end.
The ore is first crushed, then it goes
into this dryer, and from there it goes
to the stamps, after it Is stamped it
then goes to the roaster, and then
into the amalgamating pans, and from
there com bullion is turned out from
500 to 900 fine.
The main building is 50 by 20 feet
deep. There is a wing on each side,
in one of them is boiler and engine,
and oh the other side the roasters will
be placed. The present capacity of
the mill will be about eighteen tons
per day, but it will be easily doubled
if the mill proves a success.
The question is often asked by
strangers, "Where is your bullion
Now within sixty days we can show
them silver bricks which will prove to
the world what we have been saying
about the rich mineral of this camp is
true.
There are hundreds Of prospects in
this camp, we might say, tlat have
small dumps Of ore to be treated, be:
sides about a half dozen mines that
can take out ore in large quantities
and Will do it as soon as there is a
home market for the output. 1t is
true the most Of it is rich enough to
ship, but what is the use of paving
enormous freight rates on so much
base metal to Denver and Pueblo