Show ORO PLATA MINE AND MILL miner kingman ariz teams have been busily employed the past ten days hauling the new machinery for the oro plata mill from chloride to the site in todd basin practically all the mill is now on the ground and today W W elliot and son of prescott went out to take charge of the work of erection 0 B stanton of philadelphia general manager of the property accompanied mr elliott and will remain at the mine while the initial mill work s under way the mill is a complete plant designed to handle the oro plata ore tests having indicated the best way to put the ores in a marketable shape mr stanton since taking charge of the property has operated it in a conservative manner opening up the old slopes and driving into new ground that had been overlooked by the former owners owing to lack of engineering A survey of the ground disclosed the fact that there was another vein close to the main oro plata vein that had not been cut although two veins had been exposed in the old work this vein was found to carry excellent values in gold and was of god size it will furnish a large tonnage of ore as the ground is practically virgin to the surface the work of pumping the mine to the level is now under way and when that part of the mine has been a force of men will be put to work to cross over to the new vein the water below the will not be taken wit out until the mill is ready to utilize it for concentrating cent rating and other purposes from tho the to the bottom levels there are large bodies of high grade milling ore in the little of it having been removed the leasers leaders only taking out the ores that aba ran from five to fourteen ounces in gold thousands of tons of mill ore in consequence was left in the mine unbroken and in the the policy of the new company is to work along conservative lines until everything is ready to rush the mine and mill to their full capacity the property is really one of the best gold mines in the whole Wall apai district and has produced as much gold and silver as some of the big mines of the county that are just now in the linie lime light |