The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08

Tomorrow Charlie Ford will begin
breaking ground at the Overland mine,
near Sunshine, in Camp Floyd district,
for the excavation for the foundation
for the Overland mill, the erection of
which this summer was predicted last
winter in these columns.
This mill, which is to be complete and
up to date in every detail, will be built
according to plans and specifications
furnished by c. S. Ford, the well known
millwright and builder, and it will be
erected under his personal supervision,
it being the intention of the company to
push construction work as rapidly as
possible, and as everything is all ar
ranged for the equipment OF the works,
it is ANTICIPATED that regular conSign-
ments of cyanide from the new mill
will be the order of the day before
snow flies again, and but few delays are
anticipated, as the water supply viii
be derived from the system Of the Gold
Belt Water company, a branch line OF
which. from Mercur over to Sunshine,
runs through the Overland ground, and
has been in successful operation for the
past two years, and as electricity Tor
power will be utilized, there is no anX-
iety, on this score, as, by the time the
mill is ready for the application OF the
magical fluids, two companies will be
operating in the camp ready and anx-
ious to furnish power for all conSum-
ers.
The equipment Of the mill will be CD
the same lines with that employed in
all first-class cyanide mills in this
western country, and will embrace a
Gates crusher, with two sets of rolls,
besides the usual machinery necessary
to make the plant complete in all re-
spects, including ten steel teaching
tanks of a holding capacity of 10 tons
each, besides solution tanks, stump tank
and precipitation boxes, all of which
will be of steel.
The height of the building, from the
ore bins on the top of the structure, TO
the teaching room on the ground floor,
will be 80 feet, while the teaching room
will be 30X212 feet in dimensions, the
plant, in its operation, to be worked
by gravity and automatically, so that
a saving will be made in power and
time, as we'll as in expense, in every
possible way, the capacity Of the mill
at the start to be 100 tons daily.
1t is understood that Gill S. Peyton
will have general oversight Of the
erection and operation of the mill, while
Judge w A Sherman will direct the
development and working of the mine,
and in the hands of these gentlemen
there is no doubt in the minds of their
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cessful outcome of the enterprise, which
originated with Judge Sherman, the
mine, under his fostering care, now be-
ing ranked as one of the future bo
nanzas and dividend payers of this
great gold camp.
In the letting of contracts for the
material of the mill the Gates Iron
Works of Chicago was given the order
for the machinery; the Salt Lake Hard
ware company will furnish the steel
for the tanks and precipitation boxes,
while F L. King of the Western Lum-
Der company of this city will furnish
the lumber, which is now en- route to the
millsite.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Overland company, held yesterday af-
ternoon, Gill S. Peyton was elected
treasurer Of the association, the per-
sonnet of the board being as follows:
W. A Sherman, president; W. H.
Bancroft, vice president; George W.
E. Dorsey. secretary; Gill S: Peyton,
treasurer, and these, with W. w. Stod-
dard Of Salt Lake, Charles A. Arm
strong of Denver and F. II. Mills of
Boston, form the directory.
The development of the Overland
has been extensive, and has been car
ried on on scientific and intelligent
lines, and while the officers of the COM
pany are reticent as TO its condition, it
is well known in mining circles that IN
the workings of the mine vast bodies
of q splendid character of teaching ore
of good milling values have been I'M
covered and blocked out, and all who
are familiar with the condition of the
property predict a brilliant and success
full future for the enterprise, which is
backed and managed by some of the
best mining men and reputable people
in this country.
I'll, = will he s21 limo y
counterpart of the new plant on the
Chloride Point mine on Lion hill