Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-04 | Page 12 | Engineer Wright to Probe Mill Problem

ENGINEER WRIGHT TO PROBE MILL ILL PROBLEM Metallurgist 1 Investigating g Trouble With ith Go Gold d Miners on era Nevada Reservation Clarence A A. A Wright a assistant at metallurgical metallurgical metal metal- lur ical engineer n of the thc bureau of oC mines with th headquarters at Salt I Lake ale loft recently for a trip to Schurz Nev rev to examine a n. gold mill on the Walker alker River Indian reservation resEr which had been closed down by br the government because e the operators were running their mill tailings Into tho the river a a. a short distance above tho head hear gates to the two irrigation atlon canals The problem undertaken 1 at nt this mill was was was' to fl figure uro out some means h by which the operators could resume operations at a minimum cost and without darna damage e to the time canals After completing the examination atthe at atthe the Walker er River Indian reservation Mr r. Wright ht took a further trip to look over o some sonic lead silver and zinc prospects prospects pros pros- in n a few districts west nest and northwest northwest northwest north north- west of oC Tonopah These properties were near Hawthorne and Mina lIe He also visited an interesting zinc mine about twenty miles south of or Reno neno This property had been closed down for somo some time but Interesting in to that the zinc mineral 1 Is tho the treatment of which is a a. rather difficult difficult difficult cult proposition In a report of ot this latter trip Mr Wright ht stated This trip on the whole was wag very Interesting for the possibilities ties of or the future of oC that part of the state seem to tl be fairly good