| Show MILL SOON TO OPERATE New Plant of the Sterling Company Com-pany Completed EXPERT WEIR RETURNED HE VISITED THE PROPERTIES IN THE EMPLOY OF THE COMPANY Greatly Surprised at the Extent and Richness of the Ore Bodies Showing in the Sunshine Bceom ing Better With Every Foot of Development Incline Now Down Over Four Hundred Feet There Are One Hundred und Tfrvent Feet of Solid Ore Increase Recorded Rec-orded in the Orb and Bullion Recciiptls For the Past Week Manager Thomas of the Niagara Has Gone EastGeneral Mining News Within the next day or two the new mill of the Sterling Gold Mining Milling company at Belmont Nye county Nevada will be placed in full operation and with the fifteen stamps dropping on ore it is anticipated antici-pated that they will pound out 1000 a day all the year around The ten stamp mill which was placed on the Sterling properties a year ago and removed re-moved to the Montgomery group on account of the working out of the former is said to < be a very complete plant and a good gold saver At present the mines of the company are being worked with two Huntington mills and the output is about 300 a day in gold bullion Thomas Weir the well known mining min-ing expert has returned from an inspection in-spection of ithe properties of the Sterling Ster-ling company and for the next three days he will be ibusily engaged in making his report of the conditions existing in them The gentleman went out as the agent of the company and exported the mines in order that his report might be made use of at a later day if deemed necessary He expresses ex-presses himself as being greatly surprised sur-prised at the richness of the group and the extent of the ore bodies already al-ready developed On the day that he left for Utah the new mill was standing stand-ing complete in every detail and the water had just reached the plant through the new pipe line which is six miles in length The company has decided to discard steam boilers and will in the future make good use of only gasoline engines One of the latter for the operation of the big plant was recently ordered in San Francisco and its arrival at the mill was daily expected It was ithe failure fail-ure of the machine to arrive that had caused the delay in the commencement commence-ment of operations |
