The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1911-03-23
ELK CITY MILL
PROGRESSING
Tytler Reports Ore Bins done
and Machinery Ready
for Installation.

retary OF the ELK City Reduction
company, who has been in the city
on business for several days,
gives an enthusiastic report of the
progress of the custom mill which
his company is putting in at Elk
City.
Every miner and prospector
within the limits of the Elk min
ing district has realized for years
the great and crying need of "a
custom mill for the handling OF
the ore output from the hundreds
upon hundreds of mines rang
ing in varying stages of devel
opment from the prospect with the
first assessment ore lying along
side of the surface cut, to the
well developed mine with tons
of its rich products lying unmar-
keted upon the dump, and un-
saleable and unavailable as a
cash asset for the liquidation of
the daily pay roll and other run
ming expenses of the mine, be-
cause the bulk was too great to
make it profitable for shipment.
This will all be changed now,
by the installation Of the new
mill which will be in working
order sometime in May, and will
handle some forty tons of ore
daily. This amount is made pos
sible because the new process
worked out by Mr.. Tytler in
creases the working capacity of
the twenty-ton mill, making it do
double duty in handling of ores.
The process used which saves
from 80 to SO per cent of values
is simply a combination of plate
amalgamating, concentrating and
cyaniding methods, well known
to all posted mining men, but so
fused and dove-tailed together as
to work out such marvellous re-
suits as to really entitle it to be
called a new process, al
though Mr.. Tytler, with commen-
dable modesty, refuses to dub
his method a new" process.
However, in the new mill and the
plan used in the treatment of orel
are to be realized the ambitions
and desires which Mr.. Tytler has
entertained for Elk district for
the past nine years at which time
he came to the country with the
Thunder Mountain stampede, and
in this laudable ambition he has
the hearty sympathy and cooper
alton of the very best citizens
8 of Elk City and the entire dis
trict, who with him are putting
: up the money to float the enter
prise. The organization is incor-
. porated for $250,000, and so rap
e idly has the stock been taken up
by merchant, banker, miner and
prospector, that but $500 of the
. treasury stock remains to be dis
, posed of to finance the enter
prise. This stock is all taken
by local citizens, showing the in
terest and confidence they have
i'll the undertaking, and the mill is
I being erected right in the town
, of Elk City, with offices on Main
, street.
| Ten twenty-five tone ore bins
I are being finished this week, the
) excavating for the mill site is com.
a pleted and the heavy machinery
is at hand ready for installation.
\ Four more new bins with a total
0 capacity of so tons will be added
4 when the mill gets fully under
headway. The bins have been
n completed in advance so that ore
: might be deposited preparatory
a to the initial run in May and the
+ bin capacity will be increased SC
a that the mill will not have to be
: shut down for single day for
= lack of mineral to work on.
/ The official personel of the con
: pany, which follows, cannot fail
s to inspire confidence: G. f. Horn
s banker, president; o. c. Lapp
|. NJ. H. Perry, merchant, second
J. vice-president; G. L. l.. Basket
l. merchant, treasurer, NJ. F. Tyt
e ler, Sec. and Mgr. The board
:, of dictatorship includes the abov
= named citizens, with the addition
;. of County Commissioner N. B
IS Pettibone, and M. A. Parr, prop
). rietor of the hotel.
y The Globe cannot refrain from
comDlimentinp the citizens of Ell