The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-31
Fast Butte. 1900: miscellaneous. $4,000:
total tons, 5.7i5 $50.

Fast Butte, 1000; miscellaneous. $4,000;
tota! tons, 5~,7i5,s5O.
IN THE BLACK HILLS. q,
DEApwooD, Dec. 28.-The Homestake Slime
plant is at last in operation: IL has been
building for over a year and has cost the
company nearly half a million dollars, Three
hitter presses are now operating, and nVe
will be running by the end of the week. There
are twenty-four IN all IN the plant; This Is
ing from other Alter press plants in having
an automatic sluiCing device which does away
With the neceSsity Of opening the presses
poets to save another 3 per cent. OF its gold
values. thus raising the total extraction from
profit Of over $500. The shines come from
the steam mills in Lead, Central and Terry
about one-third of the ore shining. In CLASH
tiers the sand Is separated from the shines
and treated at the two cyanide plants. The
shines are then passed 20 the clarifying tanks
where the proportion OF water to solids,
hitherto Y TO ! is reduced TO ) TO ! In this
to the new mill. in the uppermost building
at the top of the mill. the shines discharge
into two Stud ge. tanks.
meets with the filter presses located IN the
main building. These presses are similar to
Z feet wide and 4 inches thick, The feature
OF the Merrill press Ia the attachment whereby
the material, after the values have been ex-
tracted. is sluiced. out automatically. The
process consists OF charging the press with
the pulp from the sludge tanks, forcing out
the sand solution by water. displaying this
by a weak solution and the latter by wash
water, after which the cakes are sluiced out
OF the press, The plant contains twenty-four
tons and having a capacity OF twenty-siX
IONS Electric power Is used, and only one
tenth horsepower per ton OF slime treated is
required TO run the plant.
LEAD. Dec. 28.-The Homestake Mining
COMPANY has sent out four, Of its chief men
10. look into and report on the use OF skips IN
mines throughout the West. Richard Black
stone. chief engineer; b. G. Yates. assistant
engineer; W. =, O'Brien, foreman and j. A.
Spargo. master mechanic. left Tuesday for
an extended trip. For some time the advisa-
bility OF abandoning cages and ~introducing
sklps has been under consideration.
Good ore has been encountered in the Puma
IN the northeast corner Of the shaft. the vein
It was encountered was about sixty feet. but
the management had not expected to find II
until about two hundred feet deep. The
milling values OF about s7.8O a ton. A slate
horse has almost played out and a few more
S SiStb are Wo skpe &c 6eiD 20 d snSw Why muc .hs s wbim
which will be used until the hundred foot
level is reached, when, an electric hoist win
depth of 500 feet. An air compressor will
also be put in, and water pumped from the
old Haykeye tunnel. where there is an abundi
in the shaft that a pump will not be needed
for some time vet, One shift of men has
been working for several weeks and develop
CUsrER, Dec. 2s.-The Lillian Bell group of
seven claims one mile east were sold last
week 10 u. G.. Gillispie OF. Pittsburg. who
recently bought the Granite Reef claims
meT Was ! 800 with $500 CASH ASH down and the
balance due in three months. The main
vein on which most of the work has been
done runs through the Comstock claim. A
tunnel driven 1870 feet cuts the main vein.
showing. IL to be IS feet wide, 1t is, COM
posed OF quartz. mineralized slate and iron
same. belt OF veins that runs through the
Granite Reef traverses the Lillian Bell.
4 force of men will be put to work at once
to push development work on both these
properties with a view to erecting a reduc-
ton plant within a short time; An excel.
lent mill site is available aud abundance of
water. Large amounts of placer gold have
also been taken from this ground and some
extensive and rich cement deposits have
been encountered. The Lillian Bell is an in
corporated company but the property was
bought direct and nc, stock was transferred.
eight miles northwest. involved the amount
OF s24.Oo0, 10 per cent. OF which was paid in
A. Cornell of Elkton, Mich. one of the Saginaw
stockholders. The Globe lies. adjacent TO
the Saginaw and Is considered one Of the
best properties in the territory. nevelop-
ment work has shown several good veins
of Quartz CARRYING high values in gold, While
are bismuth and telluriun in the ore. which
have made II difficult to treat. Recent tests,
~ ~ Fif"h. NJ 80 A'NNfpA
which has resulted in the sale OF the property.
The sale was made by Mr.. Charles Harbach
and Capt. e, A, HaserOdt, two of the old time
mining men in Custer. There are ten claims
in he group. all Of hitch show good prospects.
MYSTIC, Dec. Intensive placer works
are about 10 be established on Castle Creek.
A Colorado company has bought the O'Brien
and Ormsby properties, amounting TO about
400 acres Of land extending along Castle Creek
for seven miles. This has always been one
Of the richest placer deposits in the country
and at one time over a thousand placer miners
were en- gagged in working the pay streaks on
the various high bars. Prof. Geny in his
report to the Secretary of the Interior stated
that there was enough placer gold in. Castle
Creek and Rapid 10 pay the national debt.
The new company, represented by Col. L. r..
Miller of Denver. will build a hydraulic ele-
Yards Of gravel a day. This will necessitate
the construction OF a DITCH, and Hume three
miles In length with a pipe line of a capacity
of 1900 miners inches a second, the diameter
large hydraulic elevators and a large force of
men will be employed. The total cost of the
plant is estimated at $4,000,
UTAH.
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 28-Wages have
been raised rs cents a day in all Park City
mines. This means that ordinary miners
will receive 81. IS a day and men on machine
drills will draw 1915 a day. The new scale
has been agreed on by the mine owners and
Representatives OF the miners union. The
mine owners were not unwilling to grant the
increase, as the greatest difficulty right now
" to secure men 70 work; salt Lake county
alone could use not less than rocco more men
in skilled and unskilled labor, so great Is the
development in various lines.
The Ontario drain tunnel. which has been
blocked for two years. is on the verge OF
Park City, Several OF the mines have been
unable to extract the ore from their lowe
workings, owing to the backing No of water
because OF the closing of the drainage outlet
The American Flag and Daly-Mest will he