The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-22
INCREASING CAPACITY
All the Mills Of the Camp to Be En-
larged to Handle Output

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Between s350,0O0 and 100000 will
be spent during the next six or nine
months improving and charging the
milling facilities of the camp. Nearly
every mill in Goldfeld and its vicinity
is contemplating the enlargement of
its plant by reason of the large amount
o. milling ore that is offered here for
treatment.
At the present time 500 tons of ore
ranging in value from $50 to $50 could
be treated daily at the local mills if
they possessed the facilities for so high
a tonnage. 1t is this fact that has led
practically all the companies engaged
in the milling business to make plans
to further extend the scope of their
operations.
The most notable contemplated i'm
provement hat has been made public
is the enlarged plant of the New West
ern Reduction company. The officers
of this company state that they will
spend $250,000 in the construction of n
40-stamp mill that will have a capaci.:
of 200 tons daily. The sampler oper-
ated in connection with the proposed
new plant will have a capacity of 600
tOnSt anu tHC Hidht bhIOukhOut III ot
equipped with modern and u~p-to-date
machinery. An officer of the COM
pany is now in the east purchasing ma
chinery and all necessary material Tor
the plant. Unless the company expert.
ences tad luck in getting the plant in
stalled il will be running within six
months. This is the statement of n
prominent official of the company. All
plans have been made and the first con
Segment of material for the new mill
will reach Goldfeld within a short
time. The company's present plant has
a capacity of % tons at the mill and So
tons for the sampler.
Arrangements will soon be made by
the American Milling company, better
known in the camp as the Doran mill
to double its present capacity, increas-
ing the daily output from 20 to 40 tons.
The improvement will cost in the neigh
borhood of $35, 900, and will in all prob
ability be undertaken and complet I'd
some time during the next ten months.
By reason of recent contracts made
for handling high grade ore from the
Florence mine, the Frank mill will be
enlarged increasing the capacity to 10
tons daily, to handle this and other
business of the same character.
In addition to the improvements be-
ing made at the Frank mill and the
prospective extension, Mr.. Potter, the
general manager of the company is
building a fine residence on the hill
just east of the plant. The outlay nee
essary to raise the capacity of the
plant will be in the neighborhood Of
500, zoo.
The Gardner mill is running full ca
pacity and is also said to be eontem-
| plating a further extension of it's use
f~ulness.
The Wingfeld-Nixon mill which has
just been completed on the east slope
of Columbia mountain, has a capacity
of about 40 tons a day and may De in
cluded in the list of new mill proper
ties. 1t will run on ore from the Ken
| dali and other mines in which it's own
ers are interested and if possible will
do some custom business.
The Combination mill, the pioneer
mill of the camp, is now putting in a
new ten-stamp battery which will adj
vance its present output from 30 tons
every "a hours to 80 tons, or, very
much more than double.
There is a strong probability that
the near future will see some addi-
tional milling enterprises launched in
the camp. The output from the mines
is daily increasing and the mills are
daily obliged to reject ore by reason
of the rush of business.
Not only do the Goldfield mills han
die ore from this district, but daily
consignments are received from Ida,
Manhattan, Montezuma and other
localities tributary to Goldield.