Show ELECTRIC POWER PLANT Captain De Lamar Has Decided That He Wants I Captain John R De Lamar will probably I prob-ably remain in the city until Sunday or evn Monday some important business I busi-ness matters having come to the front I since his arrival from the south He yesterday prepared an order for a complete com-plete electrical power plant for his Ferguson district properties and upon his arrival in Denver should he decide to go there before visiting the coastal coast-al of the details of the contract will I be arranged I is proposed to put in a 100horse power plant which will furnish lighting for the mill and mines I power for all of the engines including hoists and motive power for the tramcars tram-cars in use in the mines and on the tram I is highly probable that he I may still hold to his original decision to go west in company with Sam Godbe before going any further east I or north in which event he will not take his departure until Sunday night at the earliest I l is anticipated that the new mill at De Lamar will be in full operation I by the coming week On his way up the captain passed some five teams I loaded with the last of the machinery the great bulk of which was made up of the dryer and some additional pieces These outfits have been struggling strug-gling along the road from Milford for days but on account of the terribly muddy condition of the roads but little progress was made and the delivery of the remaining machinery wm naraiy be made before Sunday I will not take many days to put it in and make the necessary tests however and the mill should be operating without a hitch by the end of the coming week at the latest Speaking yesterday of the probability of his adapting the improved cyanide process to the treatment of the ores of the Monitor and Jim Crow Captain De Lamar stated that the present mill will take care of sixty tons daily and he can save 90 per cent of the gold I with the chlorination process but the silver losses are heavy and he will put in a cyanide plant to work the tailings from the other mill The capacity of the chlorination plant is also to be increased at once up to one hundred tons dally There is ample power at the mills and the rolls are of sufficient capacity to take care of the increased work without trouble Since he made the purchase of the mines the captain has expended over 200000 at De Lamar |