The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-24
PLANT NEARLY COMPLETED.
of the Republic CONSOLIDATED
Gold Miaing Company.

Special Correspondence post-Inteligencer
REPUBLIC, Wash. sept. is.The big
mctailurgical plant OF the Republic Con
soidnted Gold Mining Company Is near
ing completion and will soon he grinding
out ore In great quantities. The follow
ing description, the facts and figures for
which have been obtained from those IN
charge, win be interesting both on ac-
count 81 the immens. benefit II promises
to to 30 the Republic district and from
the fact that = IL the largest and most
modern and fully equipped hydro-metal-
lurgical plant In the Northwest
The Republic mine Il developed by four
tunnels tapping the vein At right angles
% its strike, the lower Of which cails-
No. =, IL 800 feet long and reaches tho
vein NJ depth Of e0 feet from a.. crop
ping n IL near the mouth OF this tun-
ngl and at the foot Of the bis Republic
hill On grennd sioping about 20 feet 60
the loo that the mill IL located The
sauiplinR mill - located Just beIow the
mouth % The tunnel and the mine tracks
run directly over is big crude ore stor-
sse BINS There Was 10 suitable slse
tunnel SO that u had 10 be built just
above which location nscessitates h0tst-
ing the crushed and sampled ores from
The lower bins ~ the sampiing mill to
the upper storage bins o. The main plant
This Ia done by means 81 = rslf-flumping
skip running on mn Inclined surface tram
way ~ feet long and operated by small
friction hoist torAtad nj the foot ~ tho
tramwey IA the sampiin2 mn The s@m.
ping min WAS located below Instead %
above the reduction plant. beth f9f ean-
Venience IN rrce'vins ores from he 10
puhiic mine IS well as that u might b.
approached readily ~ tramwsy from
the upper paFt ~ the district. which will
he huilt 80 deliver ovre from other miues
hy the tsuse the MIL Il ready g. receive
custom ores. & being tes in,antion 10 run
on ore from the Republic mine exclusive
ly for several meuths sfter starting up
W order in use mr large accumulation ~
ore already miaod snd on th* dumre aa
wen AZ aepeeii " several thousand
tene - ialllug# from the old min
peseriptlaa OF the s@mpiias MN.
The samplsng mill Ia extreme ditBen-
sians % Nxa5 feet - built lu thret towels
au1 hns t@b9FttN ~ 2" IONS in Wu
heuss rhe uppsr isvci s. ecgpriel ~
oFf. rrceiHiaE hios 80 capacity so CO
tons the fniddls lev@ ~ erushius and
camping machinery end she 3awef bv
sampled SIRE storage tins ~ \ capacity
nf SO toms From the urpvr hins The
ore feeds direct into No 3 Gates crush
ts re skiuE be way ~ eteN sFot No 90
. rsvolvinS tfemmet The Ones that ei'i
rasr che srfve1s SO direct 90 srt 20
loss Gates higb eFade rolls, the WI ter.
tiaus yeturning % style IL Gates
cFtsher. whifh " rasssr again into NJ !
elevator. keepins up this rotation until
ins the rolls the fret Nantple Is TAX d
by a lfTant0H automatic sampler ihr re-
isctions selnx ~ way ~ No 2 elevator
"a any one % lha SAMPLED ore STORAGE
h,ua The sample passes % small Ole.
Vatdr aud thence Through a small set Va
raiis where q Il further crushed and
araps Through two more samnuaw mR.
chimes IL sWeeussian from the latter
of which the Mnal sample az ahHue { per
cent 0f tho original ore - DISCHARGED
into small sample hopper 81 the ada
cent NnAi sampiinE rcsfu where "a IS
further reduced hv hard ssnlpling ANA
small crushing and srindiug machinery
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