Amador ledger., 1900-08-24
ONEIDA MINE AND MILL.
The sixty-stamp Mill Nearly Ready Fo,
Operation.

The sixty-stamp Mill Nearly Ready For
Operation.
The first sixty stamp mill to be con-
structed in this county for term of
years is now about ready for operation
at the Oneida mine. Fraser g. Chain.
ers of Chicago are the engineers, and
the mill is credit to them as we'll as
to the Oneida company. It is located
few hundred feet south of the hoist
and the mill proper is 136x4O feet.
The power room adjoins the mill on
the north and is 40x80 feet, and the
cleanup, retort and furnace rooms,
l2x32, adjoin tho mill on the south.
There are twelve separate shafts with
five stamps to shaft, each set of five
stamps constituting a battery. Each
stamp weighs 1900 pounds, The latest
improved iron guide box is in use, thus
enabling the mechanic in charge to
take out each stamp at any time inde-
pendent of the others comprising the
battery. Thirty Frue concentrators
will be necessary when the full quoto
of stamps are in operation, and these
concentrators are all in place and ready
to be operated. Everything pertain
ing to the mill is OF the most modern
and latest improved make, and nothing
seems to be lacking in the appoint
ments. The entire building, like the
hoist, is covered with heavy galvanized
iron, causing very neat and durable
appearance.
a double-track tramway, several
hundred feet in length, leads from the
hoist to the ore bins in the mill, This
tramway at its highest point is from
twenty to twenty-five feet above the
ground. Like everything else about
the plant, it is very substantially built.
About 100 feet northeast of the mill is
located the battery reservoir with am
pie capacity for all purposes, Seventy
five feet south of the mill conven-
ientlY arranged store house for concen-
trates has been erected. If anything
is lacking to make this mill the most
complete and serviceable establishment
of the kind in this part of the State, if
not in the entire State, it will require
a connoisseur to detect the fault. With
out doubt it is one of the best quartz
mills on the Pacific coast, and Superin-
tendent Truscott and his able assist
ants are to be most heartily congrat.
ulated on the successful outcome of
their great undertaking.
A contract has been made With the
Standard Electric Co. for electric en-
ergy sufficient to run the mill, and
Oct. p, 1900, is the day fixed for sup
plying sufficient volts of the subtle cur
rent to operate thirty stamps.
THE MINE.
The old SHIFT has been cleaned out
and retimE ed, and connection made
between 3 old and new shafts, and
good pul kir circulates freely from one
shaft to the other. The old shaft is
1850 feet deep and the new shaft over
1000 feet in depth. An upraise of 800
feet has been made lin the old shaft,
and necessary work is being done in
the new shaft which will expedite the
work of taking out ore when the mill
is put in operation. The hoist is a
model of its kind and the finest in the
country, and still it is being improved
in several respects. Coal instead of
wood is now being used for generating
steam power for the hoist. A Gates
crusher OF large capacity is one of the
appointments of the hoist. The hoist
ing engines are very large, fiat steel
cable being in use. The speed that
can be attained in raising or lowering
a skip is indeed marvellous, and is
enough to raise the hair on mans
head who is ascending or descending,
but as the shaft is perpendicular the
chances of accident are reduced to the
minimum.
All in all, the Oneida mining plant,
which is located about two miles north
of Jackson, and which is the first claim
north OF the famous Kennedy, is one OF
the most extensive to be found in any
camp in California, and that the out
put of this mine will add materially to
the mining industry in this county
there appears to be no doubt.