Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-02-26


BE Erected.
The coming season will witness a
great increase In the facilities for the
reduction of the ores of the Cripple
Greek district The constant increase
In the output OF the camp has made the
question of Reduction one Of great inn
portance. The railroads have all they
can do, the reduction plants are run
ming night and day, and the supply of
low grade ores in rapidly swelling TO
enormous proportions. At one time
last spring there was so serious q glut
that some of the properties were COM
PEELED to close down ON account of
their inability to market their ores.
Since then the Arequa mill has been
erected, the chlorination works at Colo
RADIO City have had their capacity
doubled. and the Florence Reduction
works have had their capacity largely
increased. Still the ore lis coming out
IN quantities that threaten another
gut, while new mines are constantly
coming into production and swelling
the output of the camp.
During the coming summer a partial
relief OF the situation will be afforded
by the erection of the largest sampling
works in the state, with a capacity of
400 tons per day, ON the property con-
frolled by the Smith Moffat combina-
ton near Goldfield The entire plant
Will be under one roof. 450x650 feet,
ana VIII be equipped with the best ma
chinery that can be secured. The plans
are not entirely completed, bur it was
admitted at Mr.. Smiths Office yester-
day that they We're in progress and
mat the plant would probably be
erected.
The building will require LOCO, 900
feet of lumber for its construction un-
less it should be decided to erect a
steel structure. 1t will be located a
short distance from Goldfieid, at a
point convenient to the properties
owned by Smith & Moffat, who CON
troll the Legal Tender, the Victor, the
Anaconda, the Granite and other prop
critics within easy reach. 1t is prob
able that the mill will be employed en-
tlrely for the sampling of the Smith
Moffat ores.
The mill Will be automatic through
out. The ore cars will be carried above
the mill, and the ore taken by gravity
through all the several processes I'M
I'll the finished product is delivered to
the cars below for transportation to
the reduction works. Ii is said that
the mines controlled by the combina-
ton can, IL necessary, produce 1000
tons OF ore per day. and that this big
sampler is but the beginning of the
improvements contemplated.
There are strong probabilities that
the construction of this sampler will
be followed by big chlorination plant
capable of handling the entire product
1 OF the mill, as the necessity for more
reduction works has been under dis
cussion for some time and il is known
that the parties interested have been
engaged In the investigation of the
subject. This plant would be used for
the treatment of the low-grade ores
which cannot find market at the pres
ent time. and would greatly increase
the output of the camp. 1t was posi-
lively stated by Cripple Greek men yes.
terday that reduction works were in
/ cluded ia the plans of Smith and Moi
fat and that the construction of the
sempling works would be but the pre-
/ liminary step in that direction. 1t is
l estimated that there are now on the
dumps of the Cripple Greek district
many thousand tons of ore that will moi
bear transportation, and which only
needs the construction of plant OF
i this character TO become available. The
plans under consideration are so vast
that considerable time will be required
for their completion, but they are well
| advanced and the work will be com,
meneed within a few weeks, and the
plant will probably be in operation be,
fore the end of the coming season
Denver Republican.