Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-14
MILLS TO TREAT
MANHATTAN ORES

at the present time. One of thes
plants, that being built by the Man
haitian Ore Reduction and Refninj
Company, is rapidly nearing com
pletion. Work on the other twt
plants was begun this week. Barrin;
accident, all three plants will be il
operation by the first of next year
Ground was broken Monday OF
Wolftone acreage for the foundation
OF the ten-stamp mill of C. S. Lemon
and associates. Fifteen men are en-.
gagged in e~xcavating and that portion
of the work will soon be completed
Construction of masonry for the ma.
chine equipment will follow, and by
the time it is finished it is expected
that the stamps, tanks and other
mechanism will be at the site. A
portion of the machinery is now at
Tonopah and is to be freighted here
within ten days. Other portions OF
the plant are en- route and should
reach their destination several weeks
before the machinists are prepared to
put them in place.
The plant will consist of two five
stamp batteries and cyanide equip
ment, and will have a daily capacity
of forty tons of ore. In erecting the
building for it's housing, sufficient
space is to be allowed for additional
batteries until ultimately forty
stamps are in operation.
Water sufficient for all mill re-
quirements is to be secured from the
Mustang Extension shaft. Mr.. Lemon
announces that he has closed con-
tracts for ore in sufficient quantity
to keep the stamps in constant p
alton for a period of seven months.
1t Is probable that the first run will
be made on ore on the Wolftone
dump.
This morning a force of men began
~excayating at the site of the proposed
Chapman-Moore mill on the Black
Jack claim of the Gold Wedge Com
pany. Surveys for elevation, fall.
etc, were completed by the firm OF
Sherron & Tate yesterday and result
ed in the selection Of a site on the
east side of the Tonopah trail instead
of on the west side as at first con-
tempiated.
Water is to be secured for milling
purposes from the pipe line of the
local water company. conveniently at
hand.
The plant will consist of a six-incn
Huntington having a daily capacity
OF forty tons of ore. Overstrom CON
centrating tables and cyanide equip
ment. The machinery has been or
dered from the is-Chalmers Com
pany of Chicago. Three months from
the time the machinery lands here is
the time allotted by Messrs. Moore q
Chapman for the starting OF the
plant.
The Overstrom concentrating table
% be utilized in connection with the
plant Is somewhat new to the south
ern Nevada country and is said to be
superior in several important details
to the Whitley tables generally in use
here. 1t Is claimed that its steel and
iron construction gives greater rigid
ICY to the frame and results in in
creased s~moothness of table action.
The new head motion is said to have
less wearing parts than any other de-
vice of like character, and it is as
serted that the carrying mechanism
is the most perfected yet devised.
The table top rests on four long
rollers, extending the whole width OF
the table, which gives more than
twenty-four feet of bearing surface.
These rollers cannot wear fiat. Rack
ing arms are use dto impart recipro-
eating motion to the table, producing
an action that is practically perfect,
as the mineral particles are advanced
with great rapidity. As the table is
diagonal in shape, there is a very.
close and clean concentration.
The past week has seen a most
substantial progress in the building
OF the large mill Of the Manhattan
Ore Reducing and Refining company
on Mustang hill. #. l.. Bosqui,
metallurgical engineer for the plant,
inspected the work last week. All
timber has now arrived on the
ground and the frame work and
trusses for the main building are
erected, and for the power building
and the cleanup building the trusses
are framed and are about to be
erected. The 170-horse power en-
CINE, together with the other mach
inery for the power house-heat,
pumps, etc, are on the ground and
the first carload of the cyanide tanks
has arrived, likewise a portion of the
filter plant equipment. 1t is reason