Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-26
IMMENSE BODY OF ORE ALREADY IN SIGHT
First Glass Mill Building and Machinery Which
Cost $4,000 Great and Profitable
Industry Assured

ground and now being placed in posi-
tion.
1t was, indeed, a surprise to the
writer. and will be as great sur
prise to any Las Vegan who will take
the trouble to 60 out to Stoutville,
to round a point OF the mountain and
come into full view Of mill which
loomed up about twice the height and
several times the size which the writ.
er had pictured In his Imagination.
Tents and boarding houses have been
erected for the workmen and com
missary has been established, and
with every convenience for such an
enterprise at hand.
The Mill.
i, only takes a glance at the solid.
ly constructed mill and the manner
in which it Is put together to convince
even layman that Superintendent
Stout understands the mill building
business. The mill Is built in gulch
alongside a hill. The lower founda-
tion, or first floor, begins about twelve
| feet above the water course OF the
! gulch, high enough to escape any
damage from the highest flood ever
possible in that vicinity. Above the
| first floor, tier after tier, and follow
ing the ascent of the mountain which
| furnishes a strong foundation in part
for each floor, are six stories. Mas
siye timbers, hewn are used in the
construction Of the mill throughout
and these timbers are dovetailed into
each other and bound together with
great iron bolts The substantially
of the structure can be understood
when 1t can be stated with safety
that any floor is capable of sustainins
the heaviest locomotive. The roof,
from the top down, Is eighty feet long,
the perpendicular height is sixty feet.
It is eighty.four feet across and thir-
tv feet wide This constitutes the
mill proper. In addition is boiler
and engine building 26x44 which Is
built outside Two sixty horsepower
boilers have been placed In position
and built in with stone and cement
and heavily bound with large steel
bands and bars.
The Water Supply.
One Of the great essentials to The
profitable handling of mill Is the
water supply. This has been met by
, an Investment of over $500 In pipe
, system from a constantly flowing
spring which is 500 feet higher than
, the mill and the water from which is
: carried over 5000 feet. Tne flow
amounts to 10000 gallons a day o.
considerably more than is needed. In
case the mill is enlarged plentiful
: supply of water can be obtained by
humping from still another source
, ONLY a few hundred feet away.
, The Fuel Proposition.
: Another essential for the successful
working of a mill is cheap fuel. This
} is to be had In abundance at $l.5O
3 per cord for pinon wood of which
} there is an inexhaustible supply In
! every direction within an arrows
Right.
\ Quantity and Quality Of Ore.
RI From the sixth story or top fiool
-'of the mill an ore track wilisb be run or
, level little less than hundred
L yards to the lower portion OF the ore
. body which Is a ledge of rock twelve
:, to twenty feet thick which projects
!. along the face OF a hill for hundred
: yards or more. Several openings
{ have been put in along this ledge anc
( each blast has Jared loose a score OF
7 tons or more of ore. all OF which
+ Looks equally good and which gives
: promise of increasing In quality al
Y depth is reached. The ledge runs al
r most horizontal and It Is not eveI
e necessary to remove any dirt, the en-
n tire ledge lying exposed. This orr
h has been assayed repeatedly and aver
g ages 2 per cent. The company. In IL