The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-06
WICHITA EAGLE PRESS.

as snow clad and as elevated as the
Elkhorn, which is only part of a spur
of the Blue mountains, and itself not
one of the highest. The road from the
mine to the valley below doesn't wind
around the mountain side, ii simply
falls into the valley below, there being
a descent of more than $500 feet in the
last two and a half miles, when the
foot hills are reached. Part of the
grade is sleeper than a roof of orGin-
airy pitch, in descending which you
must put your trust in a kindly pro-
whence and let go all holds. To give
a plan idea of the grade. the reporter
can only say the mountain slope is too
steep for a Palouse farmer to plOw-
that's too nearly perpendicular to need
description. The mine is near the TIM
Der line, the trees here growing more
sparcely than further down the noun
tain and forest trees Of giant proper
tons being limited in number. \
thousand feet above the mine timber
ceases, and to the sumit rises the
bald granite for probably a thousand
feet more. The formation of the noun
tain is entirely granite, the Elkhorn
ledge being a four-feet fissure, cleav-
ing the granite almost perpendicularly,
with a direction but little diverted from
a north and south line. II is a true
fissure according 10 geolOgists, and the
ledge matter must have burst its way
into the formation in an almost or
quite vapOrouS state. the granite walls
as hard as blazes. being impregnatsd
with gold and sulphurets TO a depth OF
several inches. The tunnel on the
present workings, taps the vein at a
distance Of over four hundred feet,
when levels are run four hundredgo-Oa
when levels are run at right angles
10 the tunnel. one of these tunnels run
ming over 600 feet 70 the limit OF the
claim, and all the time in the ore. In
der the former management Stopping
was done 10 an amount nearly one
fourth OF the developed ground. The
remaining three-fOurthS can be easily
taken out without further prospecting
and even then the mine viii not have
been worked 20 a depth in excess Of
400 feet al the most or course this
viii be buc a beginning. but even with
the mine as az present developed, an
excess 81. D00 600 is in sight n sulphur
cts. which can be taken out for less
than one-fou-th Of the resulting pro-
duct
The Gazette reporter did not explore
the mine. dampness and desire 20
save MS Sunday clothes dete-Tlng him.
but ne 6id visit the mill, and discov-
cred that the things ne didn't know
about milling would undoubtedly make
interesting reading The mill, or two
mills rather. ara q the Bryant patent
and have capacity Of from - %
So tons per rws1-y-1our hours M
Robins. the mill man, explained THAI
the Bryant mill = a development ~
the old Chiilial process t'r pulVe7-zing
ores and saving the precious contents.
The Chillians revolved a stone wheel
81 a stone pan OF basin. rock and water
being thrown INFO the basin TIE BY
ant mill substitutes several heavy iron
wheels. with steel tires SIX or eiSat
inches wide These wheels ro-l around
or hardened steel dies set on TIE out
side edge % the pan or basin In me
center and also revolving Is hign
barrel o. cone o.E end open and a.
the top Into ,rls The ore, after Beng
broken rather G-e IN : rock crushe-.
s. fed and as me cone reyolvss- A--le
by Nttle the ore = au10u1a tically led
under the revolving wheels, where .
IS pulvsrized 50 fn=ly tlst stIrrsd up
hy agitation :; tos;s OF with wAts-