The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-02
Company Adding Equipment
That viii Eliminate the
Concentrate Shipments.
OCTOBER WAS A
BANNER GOLD MONTH
Developments on the Various
Levels Given by the
RhyOlite Herald.

Arrangements have been made for tho
| enlargement Of the Montgomery Sho.
shone mill at Rhyolite. y siN-ioot Chiiian
mill and a tube mill will be added TO the
equipment. Both ore Tor regrnding, and
the tube min win be used 20 regrind The
concentrates which, instead OF being
shipped direct 10 the smcltcr, viii be
treated by the cyanide process. with the
installation OF the new machinery, Wh3Sn
viii Include q twO-Curoad shipment. the
Shoshone Will output but one product
bulliOn-rllmlnatng the cost OF sending
out a carload Of concentrates month";
Under the new arrangement the hlgheSt
grade ore in the mine Will be available
for treatment In the MIL. The improve
ments VIII be completed perhaps in thirty
days. n portion OF the machinery having
arrived, says the Rhyolite Herald
The Shoshone Is making banner run
this month, and IL is expected that the
bullion output for october Will be The
largest IN the history OF The plant The
tonnage Tor the month VIII reach 4toO
General Manager klrchen estimates tnaL
there Is enough ore In sight to keep the
mill busy at this capacity Tor two and
half months, or 200 tons. The work at
the glory hole" rs .y-vcauon. Every
week the possibilities OF that portion OF
the mine arc increased. Today there arc
sully 5000 tons OF ore broken IN tho orig
lnal glory hole, and 1000 or more tons
broken In the 2O5 stope, which Is the
o
The old tunnel level. In which the tale
ore was first discovered throe years aEO
last summer Is thing Of the past much
Of the territory between surface and the
200-foot level having been broken down.
Thousands Of tons OF commercial ore
have been broken down and Uammed
out from the chutes beneath, and today
there is moro orc In sight It the glory
hole than ever before, The walls stand
100 or more feet high on all sides, with
ore extending from the fault south, cast
and west, with the dimension on the sur
face not fully determined in any dlroc-
ton. The hole, from which ore has been
mined. IS perhaps 100 feet long and
seventy-1ve feet wide, not including the
east extension. which Is almost half as
big. To the west OF what was formerly
calculated TO be tho limit OF the glory
hole deposit the orc has been proven for
100 feet by the development on tie GOO
level. and preparations are now bine mad"
10 tap the ore body from the 200 level
by the means OF several raises.
Both on the west and east the surface
dirt Is being taken on, preparatory 10
continuance Of the uuarrEing process.
which IS rapidly tearing away the side
OF Montgomery mountain. The glory hole
east looks equally as promising as The
glory hole west. and Win doubtless pro-
ducs many thousands Of tons OF god
ore An old waste dump is being removed
from the east side and everything from
surface down will be dumped into the
hole and sent to the mil. The work al
the glory hole Is nothing more than the
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many tons OF ore q shift. while with
machine drlll IL is asserted that "A hun
dred tons a shirt Is sometimes broken
In stopping, II Is one OF tno cheapest
mining propositions In the country. and
the indications are that II will be months
before the available ore above the 200
level VIII be worked out.
The glory hole contains about seventy
five feet OF broken ore Two men with
single Jacks and one man with machine
drill are employed in breaking the ore
"A of ian.
entire mine it requires only six mon on
the average 10 keep the mill going. and
there Is a gradual increase IN the ton
on the 600 level the orc has been fol.
lowed Tor 100 feet westerly along tho
iau!t. the remainder OF the drift being In
inc @aH. The brst raise IN the ore IS
UP forty feet and the additional raises,
which are madc every hftv feet have
been started. To the east 90 this level,
arlltlng and raising are IN progress 10
piles the 200 Stope now holding about
2000 tons.
on the 800 level the ore is sufficiently
blocked out so that IL may be mined In
quantity OF any time the management
desires. There are three raises I'm ore on
ms level. two OF them tapping the big
on the 800 level stopping Is being con-
tlnued on tho Polaris side. and drifting
Is being done on the P-garTs vein To The
south: a drift Is also being run along
values being present
From the 800 level . raise has been
co Tpleted east or the shaft connecting
with the 400. This Is IN pay ore. Drift
Ing Is also I'm progress east and west.
From the 500 level on which the tale
body was struck, a raise has been started
10 connect with tho 500 to provide better
circulation OF air
Nh. Kirchen mas just received an allto
matte dr!li sharpencr which Will greatly
decrease the cost of the work 90 that
1epartncnt- Donald r. Ciilllcs, president
of the Montgomery ShoshGac company.
has been at the mine this week and was
very much Interested in the successful
work that Is being carried on He left
Monday afternoon Tor Tonopah.