Idaho Springs siftings., 1903-09-26
Greatest Milling Center
in Colorado.

General Frank Hall, in Tuesdays Post, thus comments
upon the big mill that Manager Renshaw will erect the
Newhouse tunne IF the report subjoined well founded
signifies in its umatng that Idaho Springs will
rank by Tar the greatest milling Colorado
The last issue of Sings that the rapid
drop oooon per day capacity concentrating mill to be located
the mouth q" the Newhouse tunnel assured w E.
Renshaw, and promoter of the Consolidated Gem
corporation that has secured by purchase of
the most noted producers Seaton mountain and Gibson gch
admits that he has in contemplation large
the exclusive of the company ores
That the kind of mill he ought build if his great
properties be rendered profitable the
provided And should embrace all the late improve
for value saving Mr. Renshaw's company
handle the products of the Gem Consolidated They
right for small jobs but utterly inadequate manage
tunnel vein of mineral in that tunnel which the min
told measured fifty feet between the walls They
cutting upraise the had upon
$50 feet 1t has been greatly extended since visit parts
of this vein large quantities of fine smelling mineral
when broken directly to smelters
mainde toryodd feet in width milling concentrating
material probably S. 81 per the crude
would be idle this body for mill
of only fifty to tons daily capacity.
he going build This will be largest
shmen in Colorado Furnished with all modern conveniences
situated at the portal of the tunnel with abundant
mand and of mines that suitably manned keep
we'll supplied from January December there will
thing doing at Idaho Springs scale that will be pleasant
witness.
literally covered with mineral veins all
of the mines have been thoroughly developed by
and short tunnels at the surface The main bore has let
of the that heavy pumping longer necessary
Well bedded railway tracks extend its entire length
prevented Men work round the great
veins being opened from below. onnages
and quickly conveyed to the huge crushers The
Southern railway is close hand be automati-
caly loaded from the mill.
When people can stand upon the dump of this splendid
mining thoroughare and of mineral
and dumped into the grinders they will realize that
Consolidated doing its duty style equaled at any
other point in the Rocky mountains
81 don't know what the bulk of the big vein
but if contains only s. S4 per ton by being
duced at this rate ought to yield very profit to
the operators 1t will do that small production
mine like this needs to be worked for all there it,
at the daylight end crushing to the output
will be able to show the great Homestake quarry lead in
South Dakota that Colorado lined matter of
wrestling dividends from low grade stuff And by
the Homesake had been conducted
of operations the Newhouse tunnel not be paving
kind of dividends 1t the quantity produced and re-
duced that makes it the greatest gold mine in world
1T will take Mr.. Renshaw good while to put up his
thousand ton MILL but If he begins soon
to be running order by this time year In the mean
time he push the opening of his mine when the
fires lighted under the boilers assurance of
steady running for indefinite period This accomplished
Mr. Renshaw will come mighty being the largest op
orator the state and his property of the largest dividend