Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-25

per cent? lnC9e MUS use petroleum
as fuel and the Florence Cripple Greek
railroad brings the Cripple Creek ore
directly to tl,m.
a rRir THROUGH THE MILL,
Let ms nuw take a train load Of gold.
bearing rock aud follow b through this
great mill. How the gold Is gotten out
Of tie mine ] will describe in another
letter. Our freight cars are filled with
the ore. IL is a mixture OF broken
gIlHi,c, pUrphyry and other stones u
different Cul0fs. There i8 grave. in a.
Il contains dirt, and 10 is Tor 90 the
world like a pile OF broken up rOcI 8
mixed with tue refuse OF q quarry OF
rotten gflni,c. IucTe Is no sign OF
gold 9nyVhgrc. You en- take up
piece ul rock from any part OF the car
load and examine h through a micfos.
cope and YOU WI, not see CLINT ui
yellow 0r anything which 10 your eyes
would indicate gold. Sill, that rock
will average a halt 900 ounce Of gold 20
tJe ton. 10 those car loads one atom
in every 5000 Is gold, but ihi; atom is
almost evenly mixed throughout the
whole, aud thc question Is to get u out
COSTLY DUST.
The superintendent Of the works tells
us This as we ride on the cars up ip the
MILL We are Carried by the mtans Of
900 engine on a trcs,lc work track, which
lands The ore at the tip OF the mill, Tor
the rock IS carried from one level to
another by means Of gravity We look
down at the load as we go up. There
ave spcek OF stones the size OF the head
ui q pin, aud there are immense
bou'dcr weighing hundreds of pounds
All this -lust be crushed TO powder be-
fore DO can be worked. The car stops
at the top and the ore Is loaded into
what looks like gigantic coffee mill,
the top of which is as big around US a
hogshcJd. As the rock TAILS into 10 the
mill SEXES the stones Ia Us great steel
teeth and grinds them TO pieces You
hear them apparently Eroan as they are
crushed and you sluddcr az the thought
OF getting into the Jaws OF the mlchIu.
cry. This mill grinds the ore to the
size of "a walnut Another takes and
reduces % TO pieces the size Of pea,
anl % rs then ready tor the dryer
Every molcCu'e OF moisture lmust DE
taken out Of the ore before II can be
ground to powder This IS done by
ga sing through enormous steel tubes
90 NNa lNINh hl NlI AlAlUNlN lNlNNN
passenger coach and ls biz round as a
-Four barrel. Through these tubes
flames of gas continually blow. They
arc inclined at such an angle that The
ulu going in at the top as they ruvolvc
rolls slowly down 10 the bottom AS 10
rolls it has this Fiery bath, and the heat
takes 80 the moisture out OF tie rock.
Then au elevator OF iron buckets, much
Ike that which carries wheat up in %
Hour mill, carries the ore TO the top Of
the works, aud II Is cmpucl in steel
crushtrs, which grind % 10 powder.
The orc which we saw h.iore as cOuble
stones aud broken rock has now be-
come Hour. II looks ike du'', and u
/, composed oi millions OF gr'ius, but
each OF those grains contains an inin-
iictt'mal quantity Of goli, aud this cost
w DUST Is worth a fortune. The rock
was hard and rough. The dust Is so
soit ana hne tnat you can Tub u 10 ana
no IN your hands without scratching
ne SKIN, aud u looks much IKE pow
defed puniiee stone II mas however
no CLEAN OF gold, and were d on the
road you would drive your carriage
through II without thinking
GOLDEN MUsI.
VIC NNnk ~ now NfAhN l0I US ANAillNN
bath. Il Is loaded into cars and wheeled
into what might be called the bath
room. This Is an immense room, filled
with circular tanks made OF steel. Each
tank Is about thirty feet ~ diameter and
as nigh as your waist Each will hold
100 tons oi this powdered dust. The
cars run along a little railroad which
leads from one tank To another and from
which the dust is dumped Into tHetaHgr.
Then the cyanide solution is introduced
10y means OF pipes The solution isa
ilHl gs clear Us crystal. !, look, like
water. BUTT is water containing the pui.
5luuus cyanide Of potassium. lttakci
about one pound ul the cyanide lu yet
lhc gold out vi each ton vi ore, aud ag
the ,tun runs through the dust tlg mix
ture looks Tor all the world Ike brown
mush. IL rs musb, but 10 Is mush mixed
with gold, Nov, hy the affinity which
the cyanide OF potassium uat 'ur gold,
as the solution ran, through the sandy
dust, the gold leaves the earth and mgl,s
and assumes the form VI liquid and
becomes part OF the solution. IL is
just as though you had lot Of SAT- or
sugar mixed with dirt. II you should
put wafer on the dirt the salt and sugar
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