Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-03-23
What a JOurnal=Miner
 Man Saw There.
Mill Being Enlarged-MOnStrOuS Engine Being Installed-EVery-
 thing Full of Ore.
(From Wednesdays Daily),

camp there were many changes noted,
 for there is not day but what there
 are some changes in the camp.
 Owing to the fact that the present
 cyaniding tankage capacity at the mill
 was not sufficient to take care of the
 ore that could be handled by the
 stamps, the mill has not been running
 all the time and in consequence oi
 this the ore that has been taken out
 in developing has piled up in suct
 quantities that several miners had tC
 be laid of this week to wait until the
 ore could be gotten out of the way.
 The ore bins were running over ana
 the levels were piled so full of ore that
 it was almost impossible to gel
 through the underground workings oi
 the mine.
 Quite a force of men were at worB
 building the six new O. ton steel tanks
 for the cyaniding plant which will
 give the plant sufficient capacity tc
 handle the product of the hill with
 six additional stamps, or close to 100
 tons of ore per day.
 The concrete foundations for the six additional stamps has just been fin.
 ished and in a few days the new stamps will be put in place. The Nis- sen unit stamps will be installed. These are similar to the ones now in use at the Home Run mill and whicI are giving such good satisfaction. The ones to be installed at the Iron King,
 however, will be of a larger and heavier tpye and have some additional improvements. It is said that the ores of the Iron King and Home Run mines are very similar and it is thought beyond doubt that the Mis- sen stamp will prove very satisfactory in handling the Iron King ore.
 As soon as the new stamps are in shape to begin pounding ore ana the new tanks are completed, it will not take long to clean up the ore gorge and then larger force of miners than has ever been employed will be put on and the hundreds of thousands of tons of milling ore taken out of the upper levels of the mine and reduced as fast as it can be run through the mill at the rate of 100 tons per day.
 The development work underground is being pushed ahead at the rate of about 150 feet per week and at this time there has been between $500 and 5000 feet of underground work com pleted. The deepest shaft is No. ? which is down 375 feet. At the 300 foot level in this shaft the diamond drills have been in operation explor- ing the property to depth of 750 feet. The drills have demonstrated that the sulphide ores continue to that depth and no telling how much deeper. The formation became so hard at that depth that it was thought best to stop drilling there and set the drills at some other place-in the prop erty. It has not been decided where the drills will be operated next. Be- side proving the ore body the drills also developed fine flow of water in the lower depths.
 The sulphide ore that is being taken out in development is being piled up on the dump where it will remain until the big smelter is erect ed. It is not known definitely when the smelter will be erected as the company is desirous of further explo- rations with the dismonddrills before it decides on what kind of reduction works will be put in.
 The steam engine which has been used to run the machinery of the mill is to be superseded by electricity One of the largest, if not the largest gasoline engines in Arizona has just been installed for the purpose of op- erating an immense dynamo which will furnish electric power to operate the mill, furnish electric light for the camp, mill and mine and also to oper- ate the big new electric hoist which is now on the gronnd and will soon be installed at shaft No. near the mill which it is proposed to make the main working shaft on the mine when 5he smelter is started up. This engine vas made by Fairbanks, Morse & Co.,, md has over 100 horse power. It is TWO cylinder upright engine and one of the most powerful machines of the | kind made. The engine will generate it's own gas from crude oil, it only be- ng necessary to start the machine | with gasoline or distillate. The 6yna- no which it will operate is what is | known as a 75 kilo watt dynamo, which is equivalent in power to over 100 mechanical horse power. The en- zine and dynamo are now in place and | he former has been tested and runs The electricians are now 1t work putting in the switch board | md connecting up the dynamo and it | s expected the new power plant will | De ready for operations in ten days | nOre. A five kilo watt dynamo is also )eing installed to generate electricity or lighting DurDOSas