The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-23
ROUND MOUNTAIN DAISY
MILL GRINDING OUT GOLD

After more han year of vexatious
delays, the Daisy mill of the Solid Gold
Leasing company which holds a big
block of ground IN the Daisy company
property has finally got started in earn,
est on its business of pounding the gold
out of the ore, says the Nugget.
The Daisy mill, as it is popularity
known, is the fifth in the district which
has been set to dropping its stamps
Superintendent Charles E. Rice, who is
in charge, and who had personal super
vision of the construction work, is an
experienced millwright and mill man
who has had charge of mills in Idaho,
Montana and South Africa.
"We expect to work right along with
three shifts a day. said Mr.. Rice,
"but for a time, l do not expect that
we shall be able to run through more
than about twenty tons of ore. As soon
as we have been running for a while
and everything gets running smoothly
/ hope to gradually increase this amount
until we arrive at the full capacity of
the mill, which is between fifty AMI
sixty tons per day.
The mill is a Merralls of quadruple
discharge and two batteries with a guar
anteed capacity of fifty tons per day.
1t contains six stamps, a stamp
weighing twelve hundred pounds. Each
of these will drop at the rate of 40
times per minute.
Big Ore Reserves
There is at the present time, accord
ing to mine superintendent William
Madigan, over two thousand tons of
milling ore on the dumps which will be
sufficient to keep the mill steadily a:
work for two months without extracting
another pound. In the meantime, how
ever, additional men will gradually be
put to work and it will be no trick al
all to keep the ore supply away ahead
of the mill.
Aside from the main workings, the
Solid Gold Leasing company is also
operating in the famous Munholland
lease and the original Johnson lease
both of which are included in the
ground leased by the Solid Gold com
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high grade have been taken out of both
Of these leases and since the present
~leasers have taken hold of them they
show no signs of having been worked
out.
Both of these workings are practi.
cally ''glory holes" being large cham
bers where the high grade ore has been
and is now being taken out.
The machine drills have been shipped
to the company and these will be III
stalled as soon as possible. MI. Cyrus
johnson, to whom belongs the major
portion of the credit of securing the
means for financing the big leasing and
milling proposition is at present in San
Francisco looking after the details Of
purchasing and shipping a cyanide plant
to be run in connection with the mill
for the treatment of certain refractory
ores which have been encountered b.
certain leasers in the camp.
Still "Pegging Away"
There is little that can be written
concerning the Sunnyside and the
Sphinx mines which is news Day
in and day out, week in and week out
both of them are doing an enormous
amount of steady, consistent work. The
former is a dividend payer and the lat
ter soon will be. In the neighborhool
Of one hundred men are at work on
these two properties alone.
The frequent strikes of seams or
pockets of pure gold running into the
hundreds of thousands of dollars per
ton are what constitute the "news''
stories which interest the public but
to the veteran mining man these finds
are but incidents and flashes in the pan.
To chronicle month in and month out
the steady mining and milling of from
CSC, 900 to 500, 900 dollars worth of
bullion every thirty days makes dull
reading from the newspaperman's point
of view but it is the all in all of min.
ing, the dividend producer and the max
ing Of fortunes.
Rich Tungsten Ores
Upon the authority Of DIR. Carl T.
Goblin, who is in charge of the Melvin
group of tungsten claims in Shoshoue
canyon, the Nugget is able to state
that a mill for the reduction of these
tungsten ores is practically, an assumel
fact. This will make the seventh mill
for the treatment of the ores of ths
Round Mountain district.
DR.. Goblin is at present in San Fran