The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-07-07
BIG IMPROVEMENTS.
Work Begun by the DeLamar Com
pany.

The work of doubling the size and ca
pacity of the DeLamar Company's pres
ent mill was begun yesterday morning.
Men have been put to work putting in
cribbing in Jordan creek, in order to
make room for the enlargement of the
mill. The creek will be cribbed and
substantially bridged over from the car
penter shop nearly up to the present
wagon bridge. The company will at
once commence putting in foundations
for large Corlss engine. which
will be located close to the creek bank
nearly in front of the present boiler
room. This engine will supply power
20 run mill of double the capacity of
the present one, and new batteries and
twice the number of pans and settlers
will be employed in the reconstructed
mill. 1t is proposed to complete this
work in ninety days, if possible,
and it will be carried on in such a way
that the present mill will be kept run
ming steadily while the work is going
on. The Improvements will be princi-
pally added to tbs east end of the mill,
and will occupy the ground up to the
retort house. The new pans, settlers
and pulp tanks will be placed on line
with the present ones, and the engine
will be so placed that the belt, to drive
all the lines of shafting, will connect
with driving pulley about where the
present pulley is located.
new ten-stamp battery, with $50
pound stamps and double discharge,
will be placed beside the present bat
terry. An entire new battery of boilers
will be put In, and it is contemplated
that the new mill can be run, with the
same, or at very small increased
amount of fuel from what is now con-
sumed. The new pans to be put in will
be wooden ones adapted for the use of
chemicals which cannot be used in the
present iron ones. The present battery
of stamps will eventually be replaced by
heavier ones with double discharge. The
contemplated capacity of the remodled
mill is one hundred tons per day, and
the entire expense of running it will be
but very little more than that of the
present mill. 1t is claimed that it will
be the most complete and convenient
mill ever built in Idaho up to this date.
The new engine will be put in place,
and connections made with the shafting,
without interfering with the present en-
gines, so that the mill can be kept run
ming while the work is going on, and as
soon as the new engine IS ready to fur
nish power the old engines and boilers
will be removed.
The plans and specifications are now
being prepared for much larger and
finer mill, which will be built between
the two little gulches which come into
the creek below the present mill. AS
soon as work is fairly under way to im-
prove the older mill, men will be put to
work terracing the side of the hill and
preparing the ground for the new mill,
but work on the new mill will, proba-
bly,, not be begun during the present
season. 1t is intended to make the new
mill much finer structure than the
present one. 1t will be run by water
power, supplied by the four-mile ditch
now being built, which will take the
water OF Jordan creek for enough up the
side of the mountain to give fall of
upwards of 400 feet. 1t is also thought
that additional water will be brought |
over the mountain from Louise creek,
which will have fall of upwards of 800
feet. When the new mill is completed
it will mean, with the present mill, a
of $4,000 tons of ore per year,
and the entire plant will be the largest
and most complete in Idaho. The new
mill will be connected by tramway
with the Louis Wahl tunnel, which will
reach the ledges in the mines during
the present season.
The reports from the prospectors on
I he aonthwast side of DeTamar monn-