Show THE NUGGET MILL IN commission miner aliner boulder colo olney newell was in the city monday securing supplies and transacting business in connection with his mining enterprise on left hand the old nugget mill since taken over by mr newell and his associates has been thoroughly overhauled and new equipment added which will effect a higher saving of the values in the ore than ever before the mill was put in commission saturday and will run continuously night and day dropping ten stamps now and as soon as the volume of water increases in left hand creek so more power can be developed ve loped another battery of five stamps will be put to work on the ore the supply in sight in the mine being sufficient to keep the mill going for many months at its fullest capacity the values in the ore are principally in free gold which is saved on the plates after crushing with stamps whether a still higher saving can be made is to be determined by experimental treatment of the tailings by various methods which newell and will employ during the coming months to supplement if possible the saving now made by amalgamation there appears at this time to be practically no limit to the ore supply and while the mill and mine can be profitably operated on present savings it is the purpose of newell and Sc to determine if possible if still higher can not be effected before the capacity of the mill is increased while the water supply in left hand is sufficient to operate the mill at full capacity this method will be employed but later in the summer electric power will be installed the proposition has all the ear marks of a successful enterprise and is destined we believe to be one of the big mines of the state |