The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-13
= COMBINATION MILL.
Erected at the Union Companion
Mine Near BAKER CITY.

Mr.. T. ]. Dickie, we'll known mill
wright and mechanical engineer of this
city, was met this afternoon by
Herald reporter and from him CLEANED
the information that he had just re-
| turned from the Union Companion
mine at Cornucopia, situated siXty-fve
miles from Baker City, Oregon, at
which mine, he said, he had just COM
pleted the erection of a twenty-stamp
! gold amalgamating, concentrating,
roasting and chlorinatlng mill. Such
a, mill is about as complete a one as
can be erected. 1t handles the ore as
taken from the ground until the metal
runs into bars of bullion. The mill
consists of, first, a crushing machine,
automatic feeder and 10000 pound
stamps for amalgamation; second,
there are eight Frue MANNERS and a
canvas floor for concentrating the tail
| tngS from the stamps and amalgama-
! tors. There is also a reverberating fur
mace for roasting the concentrates. and
complete plant for the determination
of the ore. In a word, it is a complete
combination mill, with all the modern
| improvements. The mill was ready to
start UP before Mr.. Dickie left the
Cornucopia with the exception of the
electric dynamo and motor, and the
owners expressed themselves highly
pleased with the mill and the expert
manner in which it had been erected.
1t will readily be understood that a
mill of this description is a costly af-
fair, especially when it is explained
that the whole of the machinery had to
be hauled siXty-five miles by teams
the distance from Baker City to the
mine.
In further conversation with Mr..
Dickie it was learned that he had been
in the millwright and mechanical en-
gineer business for the last twenty-five
years, and during that time has erected
great many mills. He operated in
the Black Hills about twenty years
ago, and at that period erected six
mills in that immense mining district
One of these was for the Homestake
and De Smidt mines that are stock for
$40. 100000 and at present are sending
half a million dollars monthly to New
York stockholders.
Eighteen years ago Mr.. Dickie put
in the machinery for the Boston and
Colorado Smelling and Refining COM
pany, Of Denver; also erected about
the same time the machinery for the
first electric light company of the same
city: and further, over twenty years
ago. built what has since been known
as the Colorado Iron works in Denver.
These works are now considered, in so
far as their foundry and machine shops
are concerned, the best equipped be-
tween Chicago and San Francisco.
The company has in their works
three heavy foundry cranes, and
fourth crane in the yard that sweeps
the entire yard, and that will raise or
lower car load at one lift with steam
power Mr.. Dickie also set the plant
for the Omaha and Grant Smelling
company in Denver and Omaha He
further erected the machinery for the
Holden Smelling works, of Denver, now
known as the Globe Smelling works.
About five or six years ago, while
still in Denver. Mr.. Dickie erected the
first cyanide plant that was ever set
UP in this country. His knowledge OF
the process and of the machinery need
ed in the reduction of Camp Floyd ores
should make his services a necessity
to mine owners who intend to erect
mills on their properties.