The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-04

w. E. Hubbard returned yesterday
morning from a visit of inspection u
! the italian and Garretson gold mines
not far from Leesburg, Idaho, and he
expresses himself as being we'll pleased
with the improvements made IN thest
properties since his last visit to that To-
cality.
AS is well known, Mr.. Hubbard IN
corporated a company on the ltallar
last fall, small stamp mill beng II
operation at the ground at the Time
with which the highest grade OF ore
was treated, and that at a saving OF
only about 60 per cent of the gold val
| ues, leaving exposed in the workings
of the property large bodies of low
grade mineral assaying from So to ST.
per ton, but which could not be worked
by the mill at profit, and, in order 10
solve this problem of successful reduc-
ton A. J. Bard has been making eX-
periments with the cyanide process al
the mine all winter.
In making these tests, according to
Mr. Hubbard Mr.. Bard has installed
a, miniature mill with teaching tanks
and after exhaustive experiments has
succeeded in finding a settling solution,
being a new discovery, by means OF
which associated with the cyanide pro-
cess, he has been enabled to save over
90 per cent. of the gold values con-
tanned in the ore, the process employed
embracing the amalgamation and cy-
aniding of the ores, and so successful
have these tests and experiments been
that the company has now decided to
add to- the capacity of the stamp mill
until it can handle so tons of ore daily,
and at the same time cyanide plant
of the same capacity will be installed,
there being no doubt but that with the
two mills in operation very high re-
covery of values can be made and that
at cost of only 81 or SO per ton for
mining and milling.
When in Idaho Mr.. Hubbard and his
associate, George st. Clair, took up the
bond on
THE GARRETSON GROUP
of seven claims, adjoining the Italian,
and which is to be added to the Italian
holdings, and Mr.. Hubbard states that
on the dumps of these two properties
there is enough good milling ore to
keep 50-ton mill in constant operation
for a year to come, while in the work.
ings of these mines there is enough
more mineral blocked out and in sight
to keep the plant III operation for an
other twelve months, and at the same
time these producers are only slightly
and but partially developed.
The Italian company has a good wa
ter power at the mine, sufficient to keep
a 50-ton mill in constant motion, and it
is stated that by the expenditure of
$500 or $500 more this power can be in
creased sufficiently for all the require
ments of a 100-ton plant.
In speaking of recent developments
on the Garretson, under the supervision
of George st. Clair, Mr.. Hubbard states
that the showing is remarkably fine,
as in the main workings of this prop
erty there is four=foot body of quartz
which will carry values of about $3.50
in gold to the ton. while through this
vein there is a stringer. or pay streak,
from 8 to is inches in width, which will
give average assays of from $44 to
$103.35, while in a new discovery. made
by Mr.. st. Clair since returning to the
mine less than two months ago, an IS
inch body of ore has been shown up in
an open cut which goes all the way
from 50 to $177.76 in the yellow metal,
according to tests Esade by Assayer
Currie of this city, and all of this min
eral, while being only partially free
milling. can be successfully treated by
combined amalgamation and teaching
and SO we'll pleased is Mr.. Hubbard and
his associates with the discovery made
by Mr.. Bard in the finding of settling
solution which not only insures a great
er saving but also a quicker and more
rapid extraction, that as soon as ar
rangements can be perfected the capa-
city of the mill will be increased to 50
tons dolly, as previously stated, while
a 5O-ton cyanide plant will also be
erect al