Douglas Island news., 1899-02-15
TIMING oN A LARGE SCALE.
The Largest Stamp Till in the World Soon to be OutcIaSSed. A Rival with 100 Stamps.
 SSo Under One Management.

SSo Under One Management.
 Of course everyone has heard some. thing of the great Treadwell mine, and that it's management operates the larg- est stamp mill in the wOrld,and this has been truthfully said of the great big ed-colored building that sets back three or four hundred yards from the wharf at Trcadwell, with its 2+O stamps aud numerous COuCentratOrS, and where some 7JO tons of ore are handled every day. No doubt this alone is a biz concern. but how small, neverthe less. when compared with other mills in operation, and add to those which will commence dropping their stamps within the next ninety days, and all under one management. Suppose we were to see what is goiug on up at TreadwelI. We would leave the News office and go down along the beach, ei- ther on the railroad track or on the sidewalk a few hundred feet farther back. \ ten minutes walk would bring Ills Co the new mill where 300 stamps are in place and almost ready for the turning on of the power. In q building immediately in front of this mill iS a building not quite So large, in which To concentrations are set and ready for operation. This Is a model mill for all the machinery k of the la test improved pattern and k as good as money can buy. We leave this mill and only a few steps farther on We come to tn" chlOronatiou works which were discontinued few weeks ago. About lOO yards from this building we enter the old Treadwell mill with its 24O stamps and sufficient number of concentrations to handle I5O touS of ore every twenty four hours. Back of this mill are the shafts and hOisting machinery iu which two powerful crushers break up the ore for the stamps Besides this building are two others. one of which contains the air COmDresSerS and the other the hoistiug machinery for the first mil we were i'll.
 But We must hurry on. and we walk down OH the railroad track to d new mill that has the machinery and con centratorS all iu place. Ns this mill k only supplied with water-power it will not start until spring 1t is furnished with lUO stamps and the ore is taken from d tunnel. This mill is called the Seven Hundred.
 We follow the track down the beach a quarter of mile and we enter the Mexican mill where l2O stamps are i'll operation.
 We still continue our Journey down the track and in ten or fifteen minutes we are at the Ready Bullion, where l20 stamps are i'll operation. This is q model mill. all the machinery being of the best make and the latest i'm proved.
 These mills. which as before stated are all under one management, operate SSO stamps. and how much ore do you suppose they consume every twenty four hours? In round numbers 5000 tons. Of course we are not trying to give our readers even a fairly good de- scription of these mines, only gener- al idea of the magnitude of the mining operations at the home of the News. But you ask, where does the ore all come from? All from DOGglas Island of course. Why, think ofit, this island is practically one solid bed of ore. The drills have proven that back of the old mill the vein of ore extends down 800 feet. and how much further the good Lord only knows. You ask how many men are employed? About 700 at pres ent. but with the starting of the new mills this force will be increased to from 1900 to 2OOO, and the men, with the exception of few Indians, are all straight goods" That is there are no Chinamen nor Japs employed except as cooks and servants.
 The management is in good hands. The present superintendent is Mir. J.. P. Corbus, a man between thirty and forty, tall, and you wouldn't know if you met him that he was successfully managing a business that represents millions and millions of dollars. Be is