The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1891-12-31
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This week We have VISITED the smeitoF
aud lind that already number Of build.
ings Of considerable size are found in
sufficient 10 the business there traus-
acted and more are being built to supply
the necessary accommodations. Nearly
finished are two neat dwelings, TO be |
occupied BY the chief engineer and night
foreman and their families. The oecu.
pations Of these gentlemen make it es-
pecially desirable that they should be
within easy call at all times. Therefore
the wisdom Of the company in providing
dwellings for them and their families
near the works. Supt. James also lives
near by and his house is model of neat
ness and convenience.
A new engine house is being built,
where the locomotives employed on the
road may be repaired aud cared for
without those engaged thereat suffering
from the cold, as was the case last week
with the men who worked hard night
and day repairing the boiler of the little
engine.
New charcoal kilns are being built,
which, when completed, will be a great
saving Of expense to the company, as the
wood can be hauled in on trains and
burnt into charcoal in these kilns much
cheaper than it can now be had Of the
contractors. AS some 1000 bushels are
consumed daily, very small saving per
bushel will amount in year to snug
sum.
Besides these buildings are the assay
office, built of brick, and a commodious
structure for its purpose; the weighing
office and scales room, superintendent
office, store house, blacksmith shop and
carpenter shop, stable, two water tanks,
one for the locomotives and one for the
furnaces and stationary boilers, ore bins
and mixing beds and the smelter building
itself, with its 300 feet of underground
flues leading to the smokestack, which is
built of brick and is 100 feet high. These
brick and all others used in these build.
ings, excepting the fire brick, were made
on the ground, not 100 yards from where
they were used.
Then there are the dugouts that have
been built by some of the employees to
save tie long walk from the town to the
works twice day and furnish accommo
dations for their owners at the smelter
There are several of these, and though
small they look to be comfortable, ant
no doubt to their occupants there is nj
place like home. There are several liv
: ing in tents about the works, and alto
gether they have the appearance anc
air of thriving town. The lumbe
yard is stored with all sorts of building
) material, to which more is being dali,
added. The lumber comes from Pin
valley, distance of ninety miles, and
of very fair quality for general use.
u In the weighing and receiving office
J very busy clerk is engaged in weighin
II and receiving the loads of ore brought i
) on the railroad, the lumber from Pin
u valley, the freight from Milford, the SUI
q plies of charcoal that are brought dow
IS from the mountains piled high in sack
d upon wagons drawn by four or 81
,. horses, and dispatching the teams loade
: with bullion for the U. P. terminus
l. Milford, Utah.
:, Certainly.a forrest of timber has bee
: consumed to produce the mountain
charcoal piled behind the ore bins. 1t
estimated to contain 10000 bushel
This and much more, besides a larg
quantity of coke hauled from the raj
road, is to be consumed in melting dow
the piles OF ore which are being supple
daily from the Yuba, Day, Half Moor
Mendha and other mines.
h The smelling plant proper consists {
a two warter. jacket furnaces having
capacity Of from ninety to one hundre
q tons every twentyfour hours, an
r machinery and appurtanances for oper
y ating the same The machinery CON
prizes fine $50 horse power Corliss en-
CINE of the latest make, two boilers G
e 200 horse power capacity furnish stear
> for the engine and pumps. Two Bake
pressure blowers furnish air-blast to tn
furnaces. Two pumps supply water t
the jackets and boilers and one is re
served for use in case of fire. In tn
samplng room, driven by counter shat
from the main shaft below, are set O
= crushing rolls and rock breaker Il
0 crush ore for sampling. The smelter i
/. built to accommodate two more furnaces
and these will no doubt be added as sooi
as the grade of the road is sufficient,
8 strengthened to allow the big engine t.
| begin operations and furnish supply O
ore for them. The ore, when brought in oil
on the cars, is dumped in series of bin
having bottoms built slanting toward
narrow opening or chute, under which
when ore is wanted, small car is place,
to receive it, These bins are numbered
There are nine at present. each bin be
. ing used on each separate day for Ger
: tain kind Of ore. This enables those il
charge to easily pick out mixture O
ores, of certain bulk and characteristics
to be run through the furnaces, and a
the whole secret of smelling and tn
profitable working of ore lies in pro
/ per selection of kind and proportion, th
is a very important matter. The or,
from the bins is next transferred to tn,