Weekly journal-miner., 1910-06-15
SPLENDID SHOWING
 ON MT. ELLIOTT.
First Electrically Equipped Mine And Mill Being Operated With Graft
 flying Returns.

cut into on the hanging wall The intention is to continue this drift until the west side lines are reached distant about 700 feet farther. As this development goes ahead, stopes are being opened to afford the mill a supply.
 As the drift work progressed, a crosscut was started to the south tc reach the Dividend ground, and was in for a distance of 200 feet. Foul distinct veins were cut through, one of forty feet between walls, and the other twenty feet, which on the sur. face was blind. In this work the ore is the most desirable for milling pur. poses yet reached. the concentrates ranging in grade to 200 per cent higher than at any other point in the district.
 The company has ceased work on this erosseut for the present and have started drift to the west from the face, the plan being to drift in to the mountain, giving a depth of at least 800 feet from the apex. As the veins explored are exception ally strong, the management believes that several good ore shoots will be cut into. From the extreme northern to the south end lines of the Tieon- deroga and Dividend ground that will be explored through this system of development, nine distinct veins will be cut, which will give some idea of the great undertaking that is under headway, and the immense ore bodies exposed at all points.
 In mechanical equipment, the Mount Elliott enjoys the distinction of being the first electrically pro- pelled mining proposition in this county in every department, and their ten stamp mill is the first to receive the current and be exelus- lively operated with that power. The service commenced on June Ist. and the admirable manner in which it is performing the work, both from a mechanical and economical stand point, is proven in the tonnage treat ed, the ten stamps reducing thirty tons of ore per day, as against half that volume under the old method. Arrangements are being made for the introduction of ten additional stamps within a short time, when the ton mage will be increased to at least double the present capacity.
 The company enjoys the distinction of being the first to receive the elee- rieal service in that district. and since the current has been turned on others are to also take the power. The placing of the ten additional stamps will occupy the space vacated by the discarding of the old steam machinery, and will entail but a nOm- inal expense in the arrangement of the premises. The mill facilities are first class and of modern type. the 750-pound stamps giving way to the 1000 pound. while the plant has been reconstructed from one end to the other. It rests on the dump of the old Ticonderoga lode.
 The plant is but a few feet away from the old shaft of pioneer days The force employed below and on top is larger than at any time in the history of the company, and the en. tire enterprise mas the air of being one of the most thrifty mining en- terprises in that field.
 It remained for the present man agement to grasp the problem of handling the enterprise in the man ner that is shown through operating the old Ticonderoga ground, and the wisdom of the move is best reflected by what is in evidence in that pio neer lode. and what will follow when the Dividend ground is operated through it. That the project is en tering an era of splendid possibil ities is the prevailing belief in min ing circles, lying as it does in a yer .E