Fergus County argus., 1901-02-06
new MILL NOW
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ore in them. On leaving the slum
tanks the solution passes through
pipes into the settling tank, from
where IL Is discharged into fourroun
bottom zinc boxes lG feet long, Is
inches wide and Is inches deep, made
OF heavy galvanized iron. From the
zinc boxes II passes into the sump
tank, from where 1t IL forced back to
the original solution tank by means
Of Smith-Vaile pump and has then
completed the circuit.
The power plant consists Of an 80
horse power Chandlcr-Taylor slide
valve engine and two SO-horse power
tubular boilers. Another departure
from the common method ut betting
Is that the main shaft from the en-
gine room passes across the entire
width Cf the machinery room undall
betting connections are made directly
with it, Du other shHiting being used
in the entire mill. Manager Losingcr
estimates "A saving Of l0-horSc pow er
by this system Of betting. TbecBtlre
water supply is conveyed by pipeline
about one mile and brought To within
600 feet and from there is pumped In
to the mill by a Fuirbanks-Morse
gasoline pumping engine. About 25O,-
900 feet Of lumber were used in the
construction and thedimensionso oi the
different sections of the mill are: En-
gine and boiler room 2Oxi0 feet, mn-
chinery room 3Gxi0 feet, tank room
jjX7j feet, settling tank room 20X20
feet, precipitating room 20yaO feet.
The entire plant WAS designed by
Manager A. l.. Losingcr, the con
struction being under his direct SUI
peryision, and the improvements on
aud departures from the old mill sys-
tens are the result oi the ingenuity
of that skilled mechanic. InadditiUn
the company have erected offices, as
say offices. store houses, bunk and
boarding houses, stables aud ia fuct
all buildings required for n well
equipped milling plant.
1t IL not the intention Of the COM
pany tOntteInpt 10 run the mill toits
full capacity for some time, as they
are prosecuting development work
in the mines and will only use the ores
extracted in the furtheriug OF that
work, which will probably be about
one hundred tons daily.
The mines supplying ores for this
mill are known as the Whisky Gulch
Group and the mill site is within the
linus fthe Cloud lode, which IL nj pres.
ent the principal ore producer of the
group. The company owns group
of twenty-four claims lying together
between Whisky unl Cave gulches.
and on several of them ore has been
exposed, but just now they are con-
centrating all their forces toward the
development of the Cloud lode, which
gives promise of becomingi in thcnear
future II leader ia the ore producers
Of this region.
The Obliging mine superintendent,
Mr.. Charles l.. Wright. conducted the
ARGUS man through the entire 1900
or more feet oi workings on the
Cloud aud y0uchsaied the following
information regarding that part o!
the property:
The Cloud IL being developed by
four tunnels, known respectively as
~, ""B, &c" and "D" tunnels. Oi
these "a" tunnel Is the lowest on the
hill. being on the same level rs the
ore bunkers at the mill. This is the
main working tunnel and will be
connected by chutes and upraiscs
" ith all the other tunnels above, and |
ull the ores taken out will pass
through this tunnel To the mill. 1t
has been driven in about $50 feet, but |
no ore that would pay for the work
ing has been exposed in it.
"B" tunnel is l25 feet north of "a"
and Is being driven for the purpose OF
cFoss-cutt,ng body of porphyry to
reach the contact on thenorth side of
the porplyry. Ithas3 $50 feet of work |
but the only ore il the same low
grade mincralized p0rphyry encoun-
tered in "a" tunnel.
"C' tunnel Is ~ feet vertically high. |
er up tho hill than "B" tunnel and |
almost from the beginning II shows
n good grade OF cyanide ore. II has
been driven about 300 feet and is in
ore greater part of the way. An
upraise III one place shows the thick
ness oi the ore body, which lays ut
an angle of about twenty-five degrees
from the horizontal, to brfully thirty
feet.
"D" tunnel is 200 feet northeast OF
"C'' and Is in the hill 200 feet, and it,
too, shows ore Of good grade from
the grass roots to within twenty feet |
Of the face.
The only formations seen In all the
workings are lime and porphyry and
the ore IL largely an altered form of
these two rocks, not nearly 80 much
foreign scdlmentary matter being
present as is shown in Othcr.cyanide
bodies in the same district. In the
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