The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-04-21
CONCENTRATOR MAKES RUN
OF MOST SATISFACTORY
KIND AT START ON ORE
splendid equipment and Perfect Erection Tell the
Story---l1undreds of Visitors Witness the Start
Rated Capacity Will Easily be Overreached-- Ton
mage Ultimately Will be Enormous

Several hundred people witnessed starting of the first
ton OF the first unit of the Septo concentraor Nevada Con
soldated and Cumberland Ely Sunday afternoon Among
thesewere who have witnessed the starting of any
centrators and who have wide knowledge of the work of suc
plants Without exception the declaration passed around that
the work witnessed Sunday afternoon beat all previous records
for first trials
s. W Eccles and the gentlemen from the east and from
Salt Lake who accompanied him were among those who Wis
tied the concentration during the afternoon Mr. Eccles
pressed himself highly pleased In stating just before
departure of his special train at ocok for Seattle he looked
out the vast OF valley stretching away from the
site of the Steptoe plants and added
This is wonderful site, highly endowed by nature for
the purposes to which it being put and wonderful things
be done here The district exceedingly fortunate in
matters of location, both related to mines and reduction
plants The Guggenhem interests have "a smelling sites but
this is the best of them ALL the best know of anywhere in
the world And the mines spenddy situated for
ca operations At Copper Flat record in cheap extraction
will be made The opportunities there in that respect are
greater than know of anywhere eseven greater than those
Utah Copper enjoys
Mr. Eecles and party left for Seattle attend meetings
of Importance principally in connection with Alaskan enter
rses of the Guggenhem interests He expects to return here
about the h of May, at which time there will be another party
Of Cumberland Ely and Nevada Consolidated people IN the
district from the east
From the very moment that the nnumeable belts of the
concentration turned onto the stationary pus every
piece of machinery the four floors started out on ther ms
sion with such smoothness and accuracy as at once gave
ence of the high order of ability which has marked direction
of the construction work.
Going into commission shortly after O'Clock the first sec
ton of the unit kept up the four hour test run without
giving an nkng the slightest friction or interference OF IN
correctly operating parts nor did the least lsap nap o 70 "a
the great expectations held by those most NalH i"e "
the highest success of the plant =,
From the big bins into which the minerals from the MINES
is emptied the conveyed through the various
. of machines, in the intricate process ol separating %
metals from the wastes down to the concentrate BINS Where
the product deposited for shipment to melteiS as CORRECTLY
as though the plant had previously been in continual use
There of course will the Tightening OF betting
and slight adjustment Of parts but as for any
- IN - n necessary. This in itself is sufficient to the
borouoby initiated to demonstrate the rare talent Whcn u
employed in the perfection OF the company -;
ton works 1t IS, IN fact record heieloore m u "
bo history o mill building for the treatment OF copper oe
Dring the afternoon large number OF the VISITORS VINO
came to witness the initial run of the eoneentaor were On
dncted through the plant by Superintendent N'cIo's anu 4
foreman, VIM Enslow, who eNpai'eu '"' ~
Of ores IA lo,,o all ,nachinero in
M lt tbe sieht seers witnessed how the mlneiiS "ei
veved to the erushers; how the ersei' so tbe ores
a. nnor eize for the distributing bns, ai'er which t
~ " Pr , 10 troume screens, crushing rolls ana cassi
rors through elevators to again go through s s & tbe
l ,Lan 70 iips and Whey tables on ne nrst nVo VIZ @ @ @
' noontraes are extracted; and now Tue iiel onto
toa'se mills for crushing to finest sue LOT trea'
nt ovor Wilfey tables second noo hhuin5 81 Var
second floor Whitley tables next were coh' ttn Here
tables on third floor for the la' s' I centraes and the
@ rodpcs were made tallmgs ana 'ohcen'ra, I f tho
.wo o conducted the farthes lower porton " ,:s @
gigantic plant and shown how the th b concentrate
foropt sets of machines were deposeu ~ Cor taxing
; boro the valuable products are loaoea III @ en- ~ n
iiis WIZ" ~, u. ,,oans of powerful excavator WIN c""y
ror leading GO tons per hour lhe 'ns ~ tbo ba rren
10 wa coon 70 find its way through the humes uoSn m m @ m @ I'M
Na So hro in wears to the unnitlieo wiz Sc ~ m "a -
Vaey w.. f 6ne sands viewing which ne can oest coe "
- na ablo conception of the tremendous qu""1'! w. III .
ht aro traaed in the mammoth concent'o A. ;;t;al r,r
most interesting visit Tor those W @ in tho future with
. Of the plant ana one ~
Somethnc over two hundred and MY IONS o o. 4 m t
. s; tba fonr hour OF the hrst sectoh 70 70 NV NV
~. done