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Show NEVEDA CON IS WORKING 8 SECTIONS With eight sections In operation at the concentrator, with prospects of plenty of water for the coming sea- I son. and unlimited ore in sight ail I departments of Ac Nevada Consoll-i dnted's big plant present scenes that point to a record production of copper cop-per during the next year, says the White Pine News. At the Liberty! pit steam shovels are In operation.! one in ore and the other on overbur- j den. At the mill Ihe riffles on the Wil- t ley tables ate being changed, for the purpose of securing a heavier tonnage ton-nage without reducing the extraction. At the smelter end of tho McGIU plant important alterations have been made to the roasters by using forced air draught Thus far the results show an Increase of 50 per cent per day In the capacity ofbe roasters. This hot converter slag is being handled by an oil fired locomotive recently purchased It will he Interesting to; see the development in the use. of California locomotive oil In locomotives locomo-tives at the plant, as against cheap- ! or Utah fuel The California oil. although al-though more costly as a locomotive; fuel, has Its dlstiuct advantages.) among them being absence of smoke and cinders. |