The Florence tribune., 1899-12-16

has simply to be ground in the mill and then passed over concentrating tables. As far as our experiments have gone with this old mill. which is not very good one, we can concen- trate very easily, and witt, sinRli loss of copper, up to 33 per cent from 5 per cent and I should think that when the new mill is put to work We shall be able to concentrate comfcI tsb,y up to 40 per cent. This 40 per cent stuff we propose to bag and senc of 10 the smelters, some of who Il are ia the im- mediate neighborhoc ,- At present percels are being sold es they are pro- duced, but as soon as we have enough ore to give steady supply we shall probably make con tract with the smelters, on the sliding scale, for the sale Of our product. T'ae old mill was there wnen we were, put We had neither fuel nor labour, and had DO opportunity of testing it. Since then, however, it has been tested and found to be in several respects Fery defeeti
 The making good of th ese defects has taken longer than we anticipated owing to the difficulty of getting machinery. Being a new company, and not known to the manufacturers. the pre- ference is naturally given to their old customers; bns I hope that that state of things will soon be changed. The mill is now at work, and in it's present state it should deal with about 70 tons of ore a day. MT. Westervelt, whose name has been mentioned, went very carefully into the matter with the representative of some of the manufacturers; and from what he says, think that when the newer parts, which are now arriving, are put together, the mill should be able to deal with about 100 tons a day, which " ould mean production of be- tween f and tons of copper, allowing for the 1oss-because this mill has not got the proper appliances for dealing with the shines, which our new mill will have. You may say, therefore, that the mine is now actually produc ing about tons of metallic copper a day; and this will be gradually in creased, I hope, to between and , tons. Of course, when the new mill is at work, it will deal with 200 tons to begin with, and as the mine is de veloped it will deal with 400 tons, so that our total turnover of ore will be 800 tons day, and that means a pro duetion of between 20 and g tons of copper. The great point which re- quired study-and surveys had to be made in connection with it--was where the new mill, offices and stores were to be erected. may say that the Ray Mine is situated upon Mineral Creek. As you see. from the map, the
 whole group of mines are situated on
 Mineral Creek, which is branch ot 1 the Gila River the creek runs through narrow valley with steep sides. The
 Gila is large river, and, though not
 navigable, there Is always large
 volume of water in it, The valley oi
 Mineral Creek has an easy down
 gradient all the way from the mines tC
 the Gila. As,sudden floods sometime!
 occur in Minaral Creek, and for vari
 ous other reasons, it was not unti careful surveys had been made thai Mir. Hill and his assistants could deter mine which was the best route tc
 follow, as another valley-Coppe , Canon-runs nearly paralled to Minera i Creek.
 THE NEW MILL SITE.
 7 However, on the surveys of the twt
 being completed, it was found bette I to use the Mineral Creek, and Mr. lii t has accordingly decided to put up tn