The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-25
THE CoNKLIN SAMPLER

Extensive improvements have been made az
the Conlllin Sampler during the year. The
storage capacity has been Increased and the
milling machinery doubled, 80 that there is now
no finer or more complete plant in the territory.
The business of the sampler has shown salts
factory increase. The ore handled in round
figures was 1900 tons.
sHETTLE's LEACHER.
SsThe teaching works establis he'd by John A
Shettle at the old Mammoth mill at Tintic are
said to be proving gratifying success This
is evidenced by the fact tina forty new pans are
now being put in, which will make IL possible
to handle great deal more ore, and thus in
creases the profits of the concern. The success
of Shettle's teacher has set Tintic miners to
thinking, and it is possible that other teachers
will be erected in the district during the COM
ing year. There are thousands Of tons of low
grade ore that could be successfully treated by
this process which will never reach the mar
ket until handled in this manner.
THE MERCUR MILL
The Mercur mill at old Camp Floyd, in Lew
iston district, is running along quietly, attract
ing but little attention, and yet doing a great
deal of work. The mill is fed from the Mercur
mine, close by, in which there is a tunnel 100
feet long, with crosscut OF 200 feet, all in one
During the last two months there has been
extracted from the mine and worked in the
mill 200 tons of ore, which has pro
duced $4,000 in gold bullion. The pro-
! cess OF extracting the gold is known
as the cyanide, a quarter of one-tenth solution
being used. The process is a simple one but
has gwen the greatest satisfaction. Work viii
| be prosecuted with vigor during the entire win
| ter. There is said to be enough ore in sight to
run the mill ten years The officers Of the Mer-
cur Gold Mining and Milling company arei
John Dern, president; 81. W. Brown. vice
president; Gill s. Payton. treasurer; R. L.
ScanneIl, secretary; H. w. Brown superin-
tendent. The capital stock is S. 900, 600.
THE UNION COMMENTATOR.
The Union Concentrating company was or
ganized at Park City in May, 1889, with capt.
tai of $4,000 and with stockholders and officers
as follows: Edward P. Ferry, president and
director; A r. Richardson, vice-president
treasurer and director: W. V. Rice, secretary
and manager; f. W. Wilmans, r. Macintosh,
H. G.. Mcmillan n. Treweek, d. c. McLaugh.
lin, A. Hanauer. w. Doddridge and Henry
Newell, directors. Although this company has
sold and turned over to the Anchor Mining
company on November 1, 1891, its entire plant
and since date OF sale only retains its corporate
powers in order to close its business its work
has been so successful and of so great benefit
to the camp, that it deserves a passing notice
The mill. with machinery less the motive
power, with a guaranteed capacity of 1 tons
per day, was constructed by the Utah and Mon
tana Machinery company, of Salt Lake
city The complete plant with engine,
boilers, ore house. grades. etc.. was
completed in June, 1889, at d cost OF S38, OGO
From the time Of completion till the November
following the mill was run upon ore from the
, Woodside NINE and when it closed down in No
yember il remained closed until the spring OF
, 1890 At that time the mill started with W "
! Rice as manager and James I. Kescel as fore
, man, and was furnished with ore from the
Woodside and Alliance mines until June, 1890
when ore from the tunnel level OF the
2 Anchor mine was delivered for concentrating
Ever since it has run continually on Anchor ore,
the mill runs averaging 100 tons per day, con-
centrating three tons of crude ore into one OF
concentrates. The earnings Of the mill till
f date of sale, adding dividends declared and
paid to price received for plant, yields the
0 stockholders. in addition to return Of original
0 investment, profit of 15J per cent. additional
e This very satisfactory result is to a great ex-
4 tent owing to the ability and sagacity with
which the mill has been managed by Mr.. W
f V Rice, who by strict supervision and able
management has made such result possible.
RICE's TINTIC SAMPLED.
George Arthur Rice established a sampler
l at Tintic during the present year. which has
done anu - uON uOluB d very 6OJI DuSlutS5. III
: is under the management OF Mr.. Schenck. and
5, quite big thing for Tintic Figures as to the
s amount Of work done have not been forthcon-
s. ing.
. THE NEW SAMPLER
- Taylor s. Brunton are now at work on a n ew
~ ore sampler which is being erected i'm
r mediately south Of the Germania- 1t will be in
" operation soon after the first OF the year. and
N will it is said be the most complete of its kind
, in the west. All the ore will be handled by
. machinery, and this will do away with much OF
g the manual labor.
y. THE OPHIR CoNCENTRATOR.
IS The big concentrating works established by
Of T R. Jones, E. A. Wall and A. G.. Campbell
10 have proved a most gratifying success already
Is, and the outlook for the coming year is all that
- could be desired.
d. About 5000 tons of ore have been handled
la since it commenced operations.