Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1889-06-06
"EUREKA!"
JUDGE D0NIPHAN SEENS TO HAVE
STRUCK 1T AT LAST.

Tho Success Just Scored At the Camas
No. 2 With q Colorado Concentrator-
The Plates to be Removed from the
Mill, and all the Orc to be Coscen.
I trated.
About = month ago a new cencen-
traitor was received here which seems
destined to play an important part in
the Development of the Gold Belt.
This new machine is known Is Gil.
pin county (Col.) Dumping Table.
It is Is simple in construction as a
wheelbarrow, and so easy to operate
that boy Is years old can do it. In
fact. once set it operates itself with
out further attention. 1t takes the
pulp made by FIVE stamps, and can
even do more. If worked to its full
capacity it can concentrate the pulp
Of seven or eight stamps. Three Of
these tables suffice for a 2O.stamp
mill. The resulting concentrates are
as clean IS any heretofore made,
several samples of those made at the
Camas No. 2 carrying scarcely five
per cent. of silica. This table is
therefore superior to the vanners and
all other concentrates known in many
respects. It is also much cheaper,
its FIRST cost not exceeding IS per
cent. Of that of other COMMENTATORS.
One OF these Dumping Tables was
shipped here from Denver by Judge
Doniphan some time ago, and was
put in at the mill and operated for
about two weeks. A carload of the
resulting concentrates was shipped
from this point. The returns were so
satisfactory that Judge Doniphan de-
termined to change his process of re-
duction. He has heretofore reduced
his ore in free gold mill, catching
his gold on plates, by amalgamation.
The result was that he did not save
over so per cent. of the gold, or 10
per cent. of the silver. He is now
determined to take up his plates and
dispense with their use altogether,
and he's ordered two more "shaking''
tables. He will therefore concen.
trate all the metal liz his ore, instead
of saving only part Of it. The loss
by using the tables will not exceed Is
per cent. This will be enormous,
but much more Satisfactory than the
experience heretofore. Hence the
tables will be adopted.
| While this must be very gratifying
to the owners OF the Camas No. g
they will not be the only ones to re.
,oice. Every person interested in the
Gold Belt has cause to be pleased a,
this news, as it will cause revolu.
ton on the Belt, and revolution
that will make dividend proposition
Of what has heretofore been compare.
lively worthless. Instead of working
the ores of the Gold Belt for the free
gold in them, they will now be con
centrated and sold right here. Thu
cost Of the plants and OF reducing thu
ore need not amount to 10 per cent
of what it has been, and every prop
ertv which shows ore averaging a
low as S. per ton will be made t.
pay.
. And yet, the people here have ex
perienced so many disappointment
, that they will be slow to believe tina
. this new "wrinkle" is what they need
But, luckily, they will not have yer,
? long to wait. As soon as the ad
ditional tables ordered are put t.
. work, the shipments Of concentrate
from the Camas No. 2 should be in
!. creased to a carload every four o
FIVE days, at least. If this occurs W
will all know of it, and can COVER
o ourselves accordingly.