The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-12-21
ON BhLD MOUNTAIN
MINES THAT ARE FLOUR
iSHING
Both Mills Nave Been Completed
aud are Crnslling Good Ore-A MRdi.
sOniam Correspondent Visits the
New FldOrado-Othe Matters

s""ian correspondent Visits the
New Fldorado-Othe Matters
WASHINGTON BAR. Dec. 17.-TSpe-
cial Correspondencel- Your correspor-
dents herea bbuts having lapsed into
a state Of ''innOciOus dissuitude' (G. C.)
a few brief items may help to fill up
your colums. if nothing more. Just
now we are having GOOD snug winter
weather Not many haystacks will be
summered over next year if this wealth
er continues until April. Our neigh
Dor, O. r. Walton. has new hay
press and is putting his hay in a more
compact form for handling.
r. There is rrmor in the air of one Of our
bachelor farmers trying to pursuade
some of our marriageable DANES, to
forsake her father and mother and
cleave unto him, until death does
them part but dame rumor is a tickle
jade, and YOU can t always tell.
A recent trip to New Eldorado, the
name recently adopted for the camp at
toe head Of Meadow Creek, and what
was seen may be Of interest to your
miner readers.
The Little Kid is running day and
night, and the machinery runs like
clock work. Not jar of any kind
enough to hinder conversation in al
ordinary tone of voice. This is 'Bry-
ant" mill with a capacity OF 20 tons
daily. Just now they are running Is
tons, as everything is new and has not
gotten down to its best licks yet.
There are two :sJohnson" vanners as q
part of the process for saving conceu-
trates that work to a charm; q Dodge
rock breaker and a Champion ore feed
er, all run by steam. The main build
ing ia of huge dry logs, but all ma
chinery rests on frame work entirely
disconnected from the outside building
to avoid any displacement Of ma
chinery by reason of settling of the log
part. The ore is brought down the
side of the mountain, $50 feet, by q
gravity tramway to the base of the
steep part of the mountain and hauled
about mile to the mill. 1t is the pur-
pose Of this enterprising company to ex-
tend the tramway to the mill in the
spring. The mine is developed by
four tunnels; the one highest up the
mountain is in 12O feet: the second one
$40 feet; the third one 300 feet, and the
fourth one 1870 feet. The ore in all
these openings varies from one to six Or
seven feet in width, safe to say an aver.
age of three feet throughout, and is es-
timated to average $40 per ton. A
more complete or better ordered plant
is not in the county. There is no bras !
knobs or fancy gewgaws, but all is ar
ranged for utility. Just east of this >.
few hundred yards is the new water
mill of the Bald Mountain Company.
This is ten stamp mill of 20 tons ca
pacity each "a hours. They were just
starting up when your scribe was there
and were experiencing some trouble
with the cold weather, but that will
soon be overcome when the building is
more thoroughly enclosed and better
heating facilities added, which was be.
ing done as rapidly as possible. The
ore is brought down 25O0 feet Off the
side of Old Badly by bucket tram
way. There are 80 buckets each hold.
ing about 100 pounds, so that one revol-
of the tram deliveries $500 pounds of
ore into the mill and cannot cost more
than 10 cents per ton for transporta'
tion, decidedly cheap. This company
also has two Johnston vanners, which
seem to be taksng precedence over all
others All the machinery of this COM
pany 10 from the Risdon Iron Works,
OF San Francisco, and is complete and
up to date in every particular. With
two such men at the helm as Mr.. Page
OF the Bald Mountain Company, and
Mr. McKelvey Of the Little Kid, you
may reasonably look for some addition
to tie made to the sl0O, 900, 900 gold re-
serve next summer.
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