Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-24

the above will call on me.
 Yours truly,
 J. E. BRIsoN. The Cent raI Silver an Assured Success.
 In visit through the Casa Grande mining district last week, THE ENTER PRISE representative stopped over one day at the camp of the Central Silver mining company, which is situated twelve miles south from Casa Grande. Very little news has been obtainablc from the camp. notwithstanding that quite large force of men has been employed and the mill is now in oper- ation, but the mystery Qor such it had become) has been solved, as MT. Loss, the manager, explained. It became absolutely necessary to put strong check on his employees and not per init them to talk or give any infor- nation concerning his operations and more than one man has got the bounce for talking too much.
 Mir Loss says his company is an eastern one and, like all eastern peo- pie, want returns before they can be had. They do not know what mining men have to contend with in this country, and as he was not ready to run regularly, he did not want to give out that he was doing any business, but was only experimenting. He has now got through experimenting" and Is ready for business. He says he has it down to fine point where it may be termed a positive success.
 MT. Loss has not only been criticis- ed in this county but has invoked the displeasure of some of his best friends east and members of his company by his apparently arbitrary action, but he says it was the only true way to success, and he was determined to sue ceed though he made enemies of them all for time.
 The camp certainly is model one i; it has more the appearance of a we'll regulated military camp than that of a western mining camp.
 The company's buildings. while all substantial and good, are not of that costly nature so often found in min ing camps of eastern companies, but most of the money expended in this camp has been applied to the opening of the mines and putting up such ma chinery as was necessary for the prop CT treatment of the ore
 THE PLANT
 Consists of & 20-stamp Fraser & Chalmers, with five Frue Vanner con- centrating tables; the capacity of the mill is 50 tons perday. The smelter, which is nearly complete, is section al waterjacket furnace of the latest improved style, of 60 tons capacity per day, with the blower, etc, in place. A Clayton air compressor is used to run the Ingersoll drills, of which they have two in the mine.
 The mill is situated 80 feet north from the mouth of shaft where the ore is brought up out of the mine in an incline self-dumping skip which re. header through trestle. This dumps into an ore car that runs on track on level with the top of the mill and there dumps into the grizzler and rock breaker, from where it passes into ore bins and is fed by self feeders to the batteries.
 After passing through the batteries it goes to the sizing boxes, thence to the tables, where concentrating takes place. From the boxes below the table the concentrates are raked into a revolving conveyor that con veys them to the concentration rooms This conveyor IS also used as mixer or pug mill lime is added when the concentrates are raked, and by the time it reaches the room GAO feet dis tant) it is thoroughly mixed and ready for the moulds. After settling, it i. moulded and put on steam dryer 40 feet long that Is heated by steam from the exhaust. After drying the bricks will be conveyed to the furnace 50 feet distant, by an endless belt con veyor.
 In the mine were found eight men working on an 18-foot breast of ore that Mir Loss said was all pay, and all went through the mill. On the levels below the ore bodies seemed to be still larger, but owing to the heat in the mine no work can be done till air connections are made with shaft that is now being sunk BOG feet east of shaft No. 1. No. l shaft i: down 2S0 feet. Water is pumped from this shaft for the mill and smel ter, and there seems to be plenty of it
 There is about S00,0O0 pounds O machinery, all of the best kind, or this property, and MT. Loss states tha twenty more stamps are to be added at once.
 The smelter will make a run som, time in July and after that MT. Los will leave for the east for few months rest, and affairs will be in the hand of MT. John Boucher, whose abiht has been we'll established within tn last few months.