Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-14
Three MILLS FOR
MANHATTAN ORES.
ALL WILL BE IN OPERATION IN
A VERY SHORT SPACE
OF TIME.
(speclaI Correspondence.l

MANHATTAN, Sept. 10.-Three
mills for the treatment Of Manhattan
ores are now under construction
here. One of these plants, that of
the Manhattan Ore Reduction and
Refining Company, will be completed
by the middle of October. All three
plants will be crushing the a%urifer-
GUS quartz of this section before
Christmas.
Sixty-five mining estates are un-
dergoing development at this time.
Thirty-five of these properties are
equipped with power hoists, either
gasoline or steam. Machinery is in
transit for the Yellow Horse and
Gold Crater mines. In both instances
steam will be the motive power. Air
drills are in operation at the work
ings of the Thanksgiving and Con-
solidated companies.
Three hundred miners are on the
pay rolls of the various mining COM
panies. AS the average daily wage
scale for miners is So, their aggre-
gate wage amounts to the tidy sum
Of $500 per day, or a total monthly
wage of $4,000.
The foregoing epitomizes the min
ing industry situation in the Manhat-
tan district at the present time. 1t is
we'll to round out this summary, how
ever, with the statement that more
l~essees are now at work than ever
before in the camps history. Gold,
Seyler Humphrey and Litigation hills
are the principal scenes of this en-
deavor. At no less than a half score
leases shipments will be made coinci-
dent with the dropping of stamps.
THE MILLS.
OF the three milling plants under
going construction, that of the Man
haitian Ore Reduction and Refining
Company will probably be the first
in the market for custom ores. This
plant occupies a site on Mustang Hill
at a point where a down hill haul
for ore is afforded from all por-
tions of the camp save the central
section. The frame work is all in
place, the cyanide tanks have arriv-
ed and the power plant is en- route.
NEVADA o. r. co.
Excavating for foundations and
levels at the site of the plant of the
Nevada Ore Reduction Company on
Wolftone ground was completed last
Saturday. Timber is arriving for
structural purposes and the work OF
setting up the frame will begin be.
fore the end of this week. G. S
Lemon, the man who fioated the pro
ject, and who is in charge of con.
struction, states that he hopes tc
have the stamps dropping very early
in October. He reports machine
equipment en- route and that work is
to be rushed to completion with al
, possible dispatch.
, ROSARIO NJ. & NJ. co.
=.
! Having completed excavations fol
! foundations and levels at the site o.
, the plant of the Rosario Milling ant
: Mining Company, on Gold Wedge
! ground, the masons are now busily
engaged in getting things in shap,
j for the erection of the superstructurt
and the installing of machinery
Fred Chapman, the mar who, Will
Z George Moore, has the distinction o
4 building the first mill in the Rount
Mountain district, is superintendent,
= operations. In contra-distinction t,
U the other plants mentioned, a six-foo
Huntington will be utilized Cor or,
crushing purposes instead of stamps
Overstrom tables and cyanide process
will supplement the Huntington.
EAST SIDE MILL.
d 1t appears quite probable that
mill will be erected in the East Man
o haitian section in the immediate fiji
0 ture, as tentative negotiations TO tina
end have been recently made. 1t /
the purpose to treat custom ores a
the proposed plant, largely, If not ex
: clusively, the product of East Man
5 haitian mines. The locality offer
favorable mineral inducement AM
I should the plant be built there /
! little question but what it will be op
: Grated at profit.
AT THE MINES.
Sinking is being carried on withou
: difficulty in the main working shat
q at the Granny estate on Litigation
Hill, now that the Cloud power hea,
pump is in place. This little piece o
: water lifting mechanism has solve,
I the water problem for the Cram.