The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-01-12

| reasons unknown to me that there has
been tendency on the part of some
people to discredit my work in this
camp. This influence as it were has
extended from employees to men of
business in Winnemucca. While it
may be considered good form by some
people for employees and men of bust
ness to talk derogatory of things they
have the least knowledge of, believe
| am justified in assuming that they
should be loyal at least to the ex-
tent of the good they have received. /
came to this camp with the best of in
! tention and l can conscientiously say
that | have harmed no one and / re-
gret that am compelled at this time
to make this statement.
November % last, l completed my
last demonstration run of 1879 tons of
ore; this ore averaging $14.91 gold
and silver, $3.50. gold; $5.61, silver).
Owing to the prohibitive cost of mer-
curry, l conducted this run with only
10 per cent of the mercury required in
my equipment Under this condition,
with ore crushed to 100 mesh only, my
results were as follows:
Per cent gold extraction, 1910.
Per cent silver extraction, 47.50.
Per cent gold and silver extration,
$500.
The brick of this cleanup weighed
sixteen pounds Troy, and was exhibit
ed to prominent people of Winnemuc-
ca. This sixteen-pound brick repre-
sented SO per cent of the gold and sill
yer extracted. The values are de-
posted upon my plates in the form OF
very hard amalgam, which is diff
cult to remove without injury to the
| plates. Assays of samples carefully
| taken from these plates accounts for
| the Az per cent of the extracted values
not in the brick. The plates of my
amalgamators are of very thin copper
and so constructed that for a general
| cleanup, the plates are removed and
retorted and melted into bricks with
the bullion. New plates replace those
removed
On a running basis with a full
charge of mercury and with ore
crushed to $50 mesh, tests justify me
| in claiming extraction of values from
the ores of this camp as follows:
Per cent gold extraction, 90 to 95.
Per cent silver extraction, IS to 90
| That there may be better under
standing as to the difficulties of ex-
/ tractin the values from the ores Of
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been erected in this camp not less
/ than four cyanide plants and three
mills. The first mill was built by w
T. Jenkins about 1888 1t contained a
Huntington mill of about fifteen tons
daily capacity. Amalgamation was by
plates and Wheeler pans. There were
also two concentrators.
The Imperial mill was built by
| Nixon Wardner in 1894, and contained
twenty stamps, and four concentra-
| tors; amalgamation work by battery
plates. The Hidden Treasure mill was
built about 1906 and contained two
| stamps, amalgamation by battery
plates and cyanidation of tailings.
There was also a cyanide plant
erected just below the Jenkins mill
for the purpose of treating tailings
from this mill.
About 1901 or 1902, Wynne and
Lasher did considerable work at the
Imperial mill. They added thereto
! cyanide plant of extensive propor-
tions and as these ores are not amen
able to cyaniding owing to their base
ness, they evidently failed after heroic
work, as their plant was going to de-
cay when the tanks, which were con-
structed of rock, concrete and steel,
were totally wrecked by the violent
earthquake of October 8, 1915.
1t is the intention of this company
to put this plant in full operation at
| the earliest date possible. This
proposition, as well as any other le-
gitimate proposition, requires good
sound business management, and the
! first requirements are that we be
equipped to mine and deliver ore to
the mill at minimum cost Also, our
| fuel and supplies must be transportei
from our base of supplies at the low
est possible cost. AS soon as this
equipment can be had at cost within
reason the equipment will be INSTALL
ed. While all metals and commodl-
ties have increased in price, some as
much as 100 per cent, gold has re-
manned the same and this really has
diminished the purchasing value of
gold to that extent. This is a ques-
tion that can be argued indefinitely.
The Sterling interests, represented
by Mr. w. ID. Zwick. which comprises
the Gold Note group and the Kear-
sarge group of mine, reports that just
as soon as conditions become normal,
or possibly this coming spring, they
properties, opening up extensive bod