Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-05-14
PROPOSE TEACHING
PLANT FOR CONTACT
IN ELkO COUNTY
BELIEVED DEVELOPMENT AND
PERMANENcY OF CAMP
THUS ASSURED.

The outlook for teaching plant to
handle the ores of the Contact, New,
district, is very fattering at the pres
ent time, says the Contact Miner.
Word has been received of the inter-
est that capital is taking in the pro-
jected plant and results of far-reach-
ing Importance to the future welfare
Of the district may be announced in
few days. Many of the outside
property holders of the district have
stated their intention of investing in
the plant if it is necessary and de-
sirable that they contribute toward
the success of such an enterprise.
We have authentic information that
considerable money has already been
subscribed for that purpose and a
steady development of the camp is
now looked for.
The formation and geological con-
ditions at Contact are said by those
familiar with both places, to be strik-
ingly like those existing at Butte
and more than one mining man from
the latter camp visiting Contact has
declared it would one day become a
second Butte.
In a recent issue of the Contact
Miner is an article by B. H. BENEFITS,
consulting engineer of Tacoma
Wash, on the hydro-metallurgy of
copper ores, with special reference
to conditions as they exist in Con
tact After a general discussion of
the subject, in which he calls atten-
tion to the great activity shown in
the last year or two in studying and
perfecting teaching processes and to
the success attained along that line,
Mr.. BENEFITS says:
"All teaching methods depend for
their efficiency on local economic
conditions, such as the supply of
cheap electric power, cheap sulphur,
etc.
Now let me touch on a point that
vitality concerns the camp of Con-
tact-that is transportation For
years past plants have been operat-
ing in different parts of the world
and these plants have kept detailed
cost of their operations. Suppose
Contact were on the railroad an
engineer would have no difficulty in
figuring on the cost of his supplies
and the cost of marketing his prod
uct. Therefore see no reason why
estimates cannot be made that will
take care of the cost of getting in
/ the necessary supplies and market
ing the product in whatever form it
is produced.
"The percentage of chemicals nee
essary and the percentage of copper
| furthermore, are smaller than the
tonnage of the ore treated. In other
words, by treating the ores at the
camp we not only save the smelling
charges, but also save materially on
the transportation problem.
Before concluding | would like to
call attention to a feature that has
lately developed which tends to re-
duce the cost of installing treating
plants by the use of local material
in the building of teaching and other
watts necessary. Heretofore concrete
tanks have not been available be-
cause of the action of the acids on
the concrete. Experiments carried
on for the past year by the Chile
Exploration company at Maurer, N.
j., have been so successful that the
Vulcanite Paving company of Phila-
delphia has already sent considerable
of the acid-proof asphalt mastic btu
men to Chile.
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