New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-25
NOTES OF THE MINES.

:. NJ. Elmer. manager Of the Cobalt Central mines
Is in New York making final arrangements LOT inc
concentrating plant now being built by the Traylor
Engineering Company. and It is definitely setueo
that the plant will be put in operation before Au-
gust Is. carload of from the Big PETE Neln
is now being tested at the reduction works OF RICK
etts & Banks. WaveTly, ~. j. under the supervision
of Mr.. Elmer and President Howell Kinds AS a
result OF this test the process OF treatment as
originally outlined for the concentrating plant has
proved entirely satisfactory, and no alterations IN
the concentrator as originally designed Will be
necessary. The completion OF the plans has been
held back until in order that this test could pc
made This is the first time this process has Deen
with great success in the mining camps or the
West The test proved absolutely satisfactory Inc t
success OF the test Will prove of great inpor "
to the instaation of similar unachinerv In the other
mines III Is now certain that a Complete and
nomical system be arranged for the treatment
mines. The new system will save the expense OF
hand sorting and shipping ore Pending the CON- ON.
pletion of the mill Manager Elmer says that tt t
company is constructing large bin IN wnlcn 20
store the taken from the mine in the course or
LETT the in the face Of the drift in the BS rev
tSa s e ed@pany M 4 o On 6nsfs regular dividend
basis before the end OF the year
George Mitchell. president OF the Mitchell Mining
Company, and party of New York and Washing
ton capitalists left on Saturday for an inspection
OF the company's mines Globe. Arlz, and Guer-
Will hasten the completion of the 3O0-ton smelter;
possible moment These properties are situated d.
reetly on railroad and there Will be no aelay IA
properties Mr. Mitchell viii push as fast as posi-
BILE the building OF the companys railroad conhecl
ing the mines with the Pacific Ocean. All tles ana
timbers have been delivered there, and the rails
rolled in Germany will be delivered next month
At the ONCE of the Old Hundred Mining Com
pany No. IS Wall street there has been received a
report OF eighty-six assays made last week In the
No shaft OF the Old Hundred mine. The ASSAYS
were made No. level in the No. shatt or No
distance ~ l5c feet and show an average SIS 60
a ton. When the l.00o-ton stamp mill IS completed
in June this ore can be extracted ana treated Ior
less than s. ton. all expenses included Manager
Davis reports that copper values are increasing ing
with depth The ore values IN some OF the shdI'S
run high as $40 a ton
The Red Rock Mining Company. Of Cobalt. has
shipped a carload OF low grade ore for the purpose
Of finding exactly how valuable it is. The company
has several high grade veins from which 1t Is
sackng for future shipments This is the first
company that has been brave enough TO SEND It's
low grade stuff to market. and the report from
this carload viii give the public the first oppor-
tunity Of learning how much truth there IS IN me
oft repeated statement that the low grade ouInps
OF Cobalt are bonanzas The Nova SCOTIA Ming ne;
south OF the Colonial. has struck BONANZA ore IoV
feet down in a shaft which was about 10 be aoan-
uncovered vein Of metallic Silver was intended
70 be the last one set of.
Manager Coombs OF the Colonial Silver Mines
sends word 10 the New York Office that the strike
on the property is ended. and work is going ahead
with full force again The strike lasted only one
day. One miner had a grievance. and Mr.. Coombs
said he made himself so obnoxious that he dis
charged him Thereupon sixty miners quit work
and sent a delegation Of three 10 demand renState-
msnt OF their discharged Comrade. Coombs re-
fused TO put the back, and the question was
referred the miners union. which sustained
Coombs. The men Immediately applied for work
again and. with the exception OF few rngleaders.
now have eighty-hye men at work.
Information has been received IN this city that
the Guggenheims have acquired the Juanita and
Companion claims, at Kelly. y. NJ. These claims
adjoin the Kelly mine Of the Tri- Bullion Smelling
and Development Company. and the advent OF the
Guggenheinns IN this field is significant.