Gilpin observer., 1919-04-17
FIFTY WORK
IS OUTLINED


ally interested in the Fifty Gold
Mines Corporation, esp c i a ly
since the property is paid for,
the Observer man after a good
deal of journalistic maneuvering,
drew the following comment from
John McNeill, who has handled
the proposition at this end of the
line.
Nc is much opposed to public
ity, when silence will do the work
better. To illustrate, as he puts
it:
When you tell your plans to-
day, you are half defeated. With
the caution used, and often criti-
cized, some puerile pup of the an
vii chorus specie, got to the pur-
chasing party with the proverbial
knock" and the protracted. pay
ments ensued, instead of prompt
ones.
But this delay in measure
hinders nothing, inasmuch as the
preliminary work depended on
the weather, suitable for outside
work. The first step will be the
shaping of the mill and the
Gregory tunnel adjacent to it.
With new ditch to be dug for
a new water way to the mill, lit
tie could be accomplished with
ground frozen.
Sufficient work was done on the
west portal of the Gregory tunnel
last fall to determine condition of
walls and if caved rock was min
eralized.
The balance of this work of
cleaning and repairing tunnel
must be done from mill end of it.
so that material can be trammed
into mill and beginning con-
veniently started. This too will
require mild weather without
frost in the ground, since re-
tanning wall must be built to
hold waste rock on tho company's
property. Old tank sites--must
be torn up, and new foundations
to accommodate more simplified
system of automatic water set
tling.
Then, too, the interior of the
mill is open to several changes
to decrease former costs of oper-
ating, chief among them would
be the electrification of the
whole system. With the power
plant in one end, a six-ton line
shaft runs thru the entire 1S0
feet of building. To withstand
the torsional twist or strain of a
shaft of such length, it had to
be of immense size, which means
great weight, and in turn repres-
ented unnecessary consumption
of power.
The old method of running this
plant required 100 horse power
to move the machinery without
any load at all.
The eighty stamps of 1850
pounds each can be cut into eight
units of ten each with 25 h. p.
motor for each unit. The same
improvement can be carried out
with power economy in the prim-
ary crushing. AS it is a Chand-
Ter and Taylor engine, big
enough to run twenty-five
stamp mill was used. Sufficient
elevation thruout the mil will
permit ideal conditions for an up
to-date flotation system. The un-
watering of the mines is of no
serious consequence; but with
the mines unwatered, a volume
/, of custom work will be developed
Lsufficient to make the unwatering
profitable. With underground
dumping room secured for waste.
the hoist can be installed in the
the tunnel at the Cook shaft
making it useful for a greater
depth of operation than it's indi-
Gated efficiency, if kept at the col
lar of the shaft, $50 feet above
this point.
The financing of the property
is progressing rapidly, only wait
ing on one thing--the necessary
/. steps of the court to complete ar
rangcments for title. Capitaliz-
ing without title is like trying to
grow oaks without acorns; but
the work in this direction is
. Cover She top"
The policy of the company will
be divided into three separate de-
partments under one head: Gus
, ore milling and ore buying. This
susfonn whan worked out along