The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-05-13
Mining Companys
Mill Nearing Completion
Eleven Hundred Foot Upraise From Prospect Mountain
Tunnel to Workings of Silver Conner Mine Completed
and New Milling Plant Ready to Operate Next Week

Next week will mark the successful completion at Eureka of one
of the most difficult undertakings since the building of the first
smelters in Eureka, and an undertaking that means a great deal for
the future prosperity Of Eureka
We refer to the completion of the reduction plant of the
Farmers Mining Company, and the completion of the long raise from
the level of the Prospect Mountain Tunnel up through the heart Of
Prospect Mountain for HOO feet to the upper workings of the Silver
Conner mine.
This long raise will be a gateway to one of the greatest ore
zones in the State of Nevada, the r. bodies within a half mile Of
this raise having produced hundreds Of thousands of dollars from
the surface r carried over the difficult mountain trails N pack
mules. By means of this raise all of the ore bodies above the tun-
mel can be worked to a depth varying from eleven to fifteen hundred
feet without the necessity of hosting any ore II waste, and will be as
great a boon to Prospect Mountain as was the Sutro Tunnel to the
Comstock mines or the famous Newhouse Tunnel to Gilpin County,
Colorado.
The reduction plant of the Farmers Mining Company, now 10
near completion, will mark the turning point in the history of ore
reduction for the ores of this famous district, and will release Eu-
reka from the bondage of a smelling camp without a smelter, and
usher her into the ranks of the great mining camps whose ores are
reduced by the cyanide process in local reduction works.
Forty years ago Eureka taught the world its first lessons in
smelling ores, and now Eureka is teaching the world its first lessons
in the economical and successful reduction of large bodies of low
grade, refractory ores by cyanidation.
The first mill built here, that of the Eureka Windfal Mining
Company, holds the worlds record for the cheapest and most sue
cessful reduction Of ores by the teaching method OF cyanidation, and
cess, will duplicate the success of the Eureka -windfall mill
Some idea of the difficulties under which the Farmers Mining
Company have successfully prosecuted their work may be surmised
when it is known that the greater part of the work has been done
during the heavy Winter storms and with the nearest railroad
point 80 miles away. Material for construction purposes has been
hauled this distance when the condition of the roads would permit,
and when this could not be done the ingenuity of those in charge
of the work has been taxed to the utmost to keep the work going.
At one time, when the conpressors were temporarily disabled, an
old Burleigh compressor ~ years old, one of the first air COM
pressors ever built, was dug out of an old tunnel where it had lain
for years and made to do duty until the other machines were re-
paired.
All lumber used in the construction of the mill, Office, store
house and other buildings has been sawed on the ground from
mine logs purchased from the Richmond Eureka Mining Company.
Now that all these difficulties have been successfully overcome
the company will soon be reaping the reward it so richly deserves
for having the fortitude to go ahead in spite of the conditions under
which the work had to be done.