The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-06-04
A MILL FOR THE RUBY
The Company Arranging to
Treat Ore on the
Ground.
A new PROCESS TO Be USED
If the Mill Is a Success this County
Will at Last Have .
Paying Mine.

Parties from Montana who have in
vented and introduced new chlorins-
tion and electro metal saving system
for the recovery Of values in ores, were
up to the Ruby mine, q few miles west
of Oroville, this week, for the purpose
of making arrangements for putting In
one Of the plants At that mine. We
are not in position At this time to an.
nounce the result Of the conference,
but those interested in the mine give
out the impression that one Of these
plants will be In active operation ~
the Ruby at an early date. II the pro-
cess proves that it will save the values,
as it has extracted the values whore
thoroughly tested, the Ruby. will BE-
come mine to be listed under the
paying head. This is no careless and
unreasonable claim, for the material
carrying the metal is the to yield the
income. 1t is claimed for this new pro-
cess that it will save 95 per cent Of the
values in the ores treated, and the ex-
pense Of operation is so cheap that the
very low grade ores can be worked st
a margin. It possesses another strong
recommendation, as it saves all the
minerals the ores treated contain.
There is hardly any limit to the guam
tity Of low, and medium, grade ore the
Ruby can produce and plant that can
do the work and insure the saving Of
values to the extent claimed will leave
large measure Of profit to tho Ruby
company.
In past years the Ruby has produced
some very high grade ore, the princip.
al value being in silver, and consider
able of this ore has been shipped to the
outside for smelter treatment. The
cost of production, transportation and
treatment was SO great that the COM
pany decided to suspend shipments and
await the time that some kind Of treat
ment plant could be placed upon the
ground where all there is in the ore
could be turned into receipts. Ne
gotiations have been pending for somc
time for this newly invented plant,
the attention of Monroe Harman, man.
ager Of the mine, having been called
to it when the first working model was
being tested. He has very carefully
examined into the process, and seen it
work, and is satisfied in his own mind
that is just what is needed to make the
Ruby success as mining PROPOSE
tion. He has hundreds of tons Of ore
on the dump that can be treated, and
an almost endless quantity blocked out
in the ramiication Of underground
workings that have been in process Of
excavation for several years. There
is much high grade ore that can be
taken out, which will average up the
cheaper ores.
Mr.. Harman has been sustained by
an unfaltering faith in tho property to
which he he has devoted the bost years
of his life to make . dividend payer.
He is not a man that can be misled -
to the merits Of mining proposition,
because he has both the theoretical
knowledge and practical experience.
His management has been marked by
care, conservatism and good judgment,
and he has followed method of un.
dergroud development that has brought
the very best results in the way of
tonnage exposure. If he succeeds in
securing the plant he is after, and it
does the work claimed for it, there is
every reason to believe that the Ruby
will become one of the most important
mining properties in the northwest.