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Show THE PIONEER SAMPLER. Prosperous aud Valuable Works A viiit made yesterday by a Herald reporter to the Pioneer sampling mills at Sandy was rewarded by a few items which the general pub' do may feel interested in. The mills, owned by Mr. R. Mackintosh Mack-intosh and superintended by Mr. A. J. Cusbing, with the ore aheds, store rooms and office, cover an area of shout ten acres. For the past four or five weeks the works have been running to their fullest capacity, sampling ores from the leading minee uf Cottonwood, Bingham and American Ameri-can Fork, aud shipping, lately, from eight to ten brod-gaue car loads a day to the neighboring smellers, to Billiard and to Omaha. Among the mines sending in ores to the Pioueer tre the South Star and Titus, Vallejo, Nabob, Lavinia, Lejo, Davenport, Daven-port, Sidciyou, Live Yankee, Carbonate, Toledo, Richmond, North Star, Flagstaff, Prince of Wales, and Emma of Cottonwood; the Wiaa-muck, Wiaa-muck, Ashland, Gunnison, Neptune and Morning Star of Bingham; the Wasatch of Bntterfield, and the Wild Dutchman of American Fork. The dispatch with whioh the lueinew ol unloading, sampling and reloading is conducted is rtuaikable. The working of the steam machinery used in this mill ia a novelty, and, bo far, has been all tbat the inventor and owner could have hoped for. Through the courtesy of Mr. Cushing, we were enabled to wituesa the entire en-tire process from the crush ug of the ores to the bottling ol the samples. The dirt is first thrown ioto the powerful cruahcir ou the ground floor of the mill, where it ia pulverized; from this it id crrieJ in cups to the top ol a high elevator, and dumped, a cupful at a time, into a large hopper, thence it falls into hopper No. 2, tbeu to No. 3, and lastly into hopper No. 4. Each hopper divides the ore, throwing ofl tLe principal and retain-, retain-, lug the sample at the bottom. At i the lower outleU wheelbarrows are I placed to receive the bulk, which is toted off by laborers, who are- kept busy. Alter going through the hoppers, the ore particles to be sampled are taken to the drying room, where the moisture ia dried out, when they are taken to the plate room. Here they are ground and pulverized to the fineness o( XXXX dour, are thoroughly mixed and divided into sections; four bottles are brought and the sections are divided among the bottles, sealed up and sent , to the asaayer for assays aid sale. Id the plate room is a pair of gold saalcs lor weighing moisture, wtiich are among the fiueat aod truest in the territory. A ten ton sample was going on while we were there, and from ob serration and inspection we did not see bow it could be possible to make a mistake, so perfectly did everything work. The enineer in charge is an experienced hand and understands the various movements thoroughly. The engine a tea-horse power, and is satiilactorily driving four heavy belts, working four different crushers with ease. The ore sheds are so arranged tha t the ores from the different mines are kept separate, and the men connected with the works keep them as nearly clean as the nature of the contents will allow. The cost of the machine was about $4,0oX), and the owner baa invested in the works in the neighborhood of 125,000. On Thursday and Friday Emma ores were being shipped, some of the asays of which ran up to $500 and $600. Tho Flagstaff bi been shipping ship-ping heavily of from 20.000 to 30,000 pounds in samples every three or four days, that being one-tenth of the principal. We were impressed with the idea that somebody must have money, as 600 tons of the Spanish Span-ish mine ore are lying there, awaiting await-ing a more profitable market than ia uow offered. Tue Mayflower ol Bingham Bing-ham is shipping (rom tea to tweuty tons a day. Every indication points to a very heavy business in mining affairs next ftpring and summer, when a fresh impetus will be imparted to every branch of trade throughout the territory. terri-tory. .. |