Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-02-26
AsPEN.s Nsw MOVE.
Big Mills WIN BE Built to Reduce the SUI
YER Ore as CheapIy as Possible

big Mills VIII BE Built to Reduce the Sill
Yer Ore as Cheapiy as Possible
There viii be more activity about
Aspen during the coming season than
there has been since the fall i'm silver
In 1888, says the Denver Republican.
The mine owners have waited patient
~ for nearly five years for some i'm
proyement in the silver market with
out result, and it has now been decided
that 1t is useless to expect anything in
that direction, and that the best thing
TO be done Is to take the ore as ii is
found. reduce the cost of handling and
treatment to the lowest possible figure.
and put the silver on the market al
what 1t will bring.
For several months the question of
mills to concentrate the immense de-
posits of low-grade mineral found In
the great silver camp has been dis
cussed among the mine owners of the
district, and many tests have been
made with the low-grade ore lying on
the dumps, of which it is estimated
that there are not less than 600. 900 tons
which viii not bear the cost of trans
portation and treatment at the smeIt-
ers. running from ten to twenty ounces
in silver. and several of the larger
mine owners have been quietly MAX
ing the necessary arrangements for the
erection of plants TO treat this class of
ore
The general character of the Aspen
| ores is such that ii can be readily and
economically treated in concentrating
| mills, and the product of the dumps
and of the low-grade ores taken out
| OF the mines now in operation will
| greatly increase the output of the
| camp besides being a great saving
| TO the mine owners, and a very salts
| factory ore for the smeIters. 1t is
| probable that from five to six mills
will be erected within the next few
| months.
The first mill to be erected in the
camp is that of the Mollie Gibson and
| Argentum-J uniata, the plans of which
have been prepared, and the excava-
| tons for which have already been COM
menced The mill will not only be one
of the largest, but one of the most
complete in the state. The capacity
of the mill viii be 20 tons per day.
The main building is to be 70x100 feet
and will contain the crushers, rolls
! Huntington mills and the sampline
floor. A second building 50x150 feet
will be devoted to the concentration
machinery.
i The mill will be automatic through
out. The ore will be delivered at the
top of the mill and viii not be handled
| at all until the concentrates are deliy.
cred. The ore will be delivered in the
bins, from which it will pass to the
crushers. After passing through the
| crushers it passes TO hoppers. which
| deliver the ore to the rolls, from thest
the crushed material is delivered 10 the
Huntingtons. AS the ore leaves the
/ Huntington mills it is taken by al
automatic sampler and sampled, the
| elevator carrying it to the final set OF
| bins, from which it is delivered to the
concentrating tables.
/ The equipment of the mill will bt
two large crushers, three sets of rolls
and six five-foot Huntington mills
four of which will be devoted TO this
| Mollie Gibson and two TO the Argen
| tum-Juniata ores. In the concentrat
ing building the plans and specifica
tions call for twenty-four Whitley Ia
bles.
The power for the entire plant Is I,
be furnished by Hamilton-Corlis!
engine of 200 registered horse-powel
and two steel boilers with combined
capacity of $50 horsepower.
The order for the machinery hal
been placed and it is expected that tn,
mill will be in operation in ninet,
days.