Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1894-07-07
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make their load and burdens their
patient intelligent animals.
/ would sing the praises of the mule.
No horse living acts more knowingly
than freighter's mule. He knews when
to pull, to pull all together, and make
his effort count, and he knows when to
shirk. Eighteen mules make a team,
and they 90 as one and not as eighteen.
The front fellows give perfect heed to
the telepbOning done to them by the
driver over a long rope. They know it
will never do to make curve too sharply.
They do heavy work and keep fat on it.
One OF their performances ia the hook
ing together OF loaded trail wagons, left
behind, one from each trip. The
is level or slopes forward. The tongue
by which it is fastened is like the draw
head of a car, only it is eight or ten feet
long. Two mules are fastened to the
end Of the drawhead, and they perform
coupling as dangerous as any by
brakeman. Five thousand, eight hun
dred pounds the wagons alone weigh,
and eight tons of ore is the load-a
total OF about Il, 600 pounds. To move
this without grade to help by single
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So the knowing four footed brakemen
start the wagon, with its tons and tons
behind them, one on each side of the
drawhead. They approach the front
wagon, and as they do 80, swing out
quickly on either side. The wagons
crunch together, but the mules are
clear. Teams have been crushed to
death thus, but they were the ordinary
horse and not our friends of the long
ears.
A tortuous three miles of curves and
brakes and dust. Dust underfoot, and
dust in the wagons. The teams swing
around, above the ore bins of the mill.
The back ends of the wagons are open
ed. The bottom of the wagon is a
series of plank stats, laid close, cross
wise. One by one they are removed,
and out pours our bar Of gold. Mexi-
cans shovel it into bins, and that is-the
end of another story.
THE CoMPLACENr HARRY COMES NEXT.
Gold is queer stuff. tits very elusive.
Now here bar of gold has been sought
out, and made lot OF hard work for
lot of men, yet It couldn't be seen with
microscope, and, to all appearances, is
no better than it's fellow dust In the
road. Ledge gold has excited the wits
of men for centuries to get it away from
the bad company it has kept in the hills.
Besides, Our bar OF gold Is there, and we
want to see it palpable and yellow and
heavy.
1t goes under heavy upright rods,
called stamps, which reduce it all to
pulp. The milling capacity at the
Mammoth has been greater from the
stamps than the plates would take, so
the production, which was 146 to 160
tons day at first under the new man.
agement, for the fifty stamps, Is now 130
tons day. The more friable Collins
ore permits of quicker working than the
old Mammoth rock. The last six
months of the old Mammoth run was
1l0 tons a day, and lis day prior to
then.
Days and nights and Sundays and
holidays those stamps keep pounding,
not stopping a moment. Their roar
seems as eternal as the hills their food
came from. Short work they make of
our bar of gold. 1t is through in hurry
and on the amalgamators. Here. IS
where the gold has its birth. The
greedy quicksilver on the plates licks
the gold up, and takes it to itself. The
water is carries the pulp over the
plates, one sfter another, a long series
of them, to the bottom one, which gets
comparatively little. Then the dirt
goes oD, the same dirt that has associst-
ed always with our bar, and is washed
out on big dump and designated as
tsilings. That is the trial of water. A
paying proportion Of the gold has been
saved, and every speck that any amalga-
mator would pick up.
Then is an important process done.
The plates are scraped, and the
amalgam removed. 1t Is rolled into
little balls, twice as big as a marble. l
was given one to lift, and it was heavier
than it looked. A three-qusrt kettle OF
them was there, and it weighed ffty-six
pounds. This the complacent Harry
Barnhart informed me was worth over
$1,000. But where was the gold, 1
asked. The balls were heavy enough,
but they were white and more like silver
than gold. The gold wss part or the
balls he told me, and fiery furnace
would do the rest.
The Raber process is an important in
vention that will complete the work of
the plates. The tailings will be treated
with electricity by it. An experimental
machine has been set up and run there,
but there being no electrician there the
machine was not properly connected,
and did not work we'll. However the
machine worked to perfection on the
sands OF The famous Snake river, leaving
not so much as a color, and when an
electrician puts the ten machines there
in order, they will do all that the plates
fail of. In the past nine years the
Mammoth company has worked
| 100000 tons of ore, most of which
| they still have, in the shape of tsiiings.
For the tailings, covering several acres
ten TO twenty feet deep, they have
had advantageous offers. A cyanide
process worked very satisfactorily, bat
is more expensive to run than the Raber
machine. Mr.. Rsber, who is now at
Mammoth, told me that he had spent
$4,000 in perfecting his process ofsaving
| fine gold. The ten machines will use