Show 0 MILLING AT MANHATTAN special correspondence manhattan nevada feb 12 1914 after several weeks tie up due to the inclemency of the weather unavoidable delays in the installation of the new milling machinery building of the track to the new scene of mining operations etc the war eagle mill is at last dropping its stamps again the installation of the new battery of ten stamps the large tube mill the building of the receiving ore bins above the batteries the placing of the amalgamating plates below the stamps and tube mill etc has all taken time but the original ten stamps of the mill are at work and the complete equipment of twenty stamps and two tube mills will be working on mustang ore within three days time the last delay being incident to the non arrival of a drive belt for the new tube mill the glory hole from which the mill will for the next few months derive its ore is situated directly north of the mill about feet distant and probably feet higher in elevation the supplying of the mill from the glory hole has already been started about tons already having been put through the mill the ore is delivered into the receiving bin above the large rock crusher in two ton car lots the loaded cars being lowered by cable attached to a small electric hoist which furnishes the power to pull back the empty car the glory hole operations are apparently a duplicate of the reilly fraction mining churn drills and a low per cent dynamite being utilized lor for the breaking of the ore the transportation por tation costs per ton of ore are so low that they can hardly be considered in the final cost computation when the whole capacity of the mill is at work on the ore the milling costs per ton will also be lowered considerably below the record so far of the reilly fraction ore milling ahe limits of the mustang ore zone are so far unknown prospecting work has demonstrated the ore for a width of over feet and for several hundred feet in length but its final limits will be unknown until mining operations in the future have defined it it is on this class of mining that the future of manhattan depends the lowering of mining and milling and transportation ion costs to a minimum by means of efficiency in operation and increased milling capacity so that the small profits per ton will still mean large dividends the output from the mario quarry from which the supply of pebbles for the use of the nevada mills as grinders for tube mills is coming is already increasing in tonnage as contracts with mills throughout this section of nevada are being made A machine something similar to a tube mill has been installed at the mine and the flint like rocks are rolled in this mill so that their sharp corners and angles are rounded off the war eagle mill has received a shipment of the chalcedony and if the wear and efficiency of the local rock comes up to expectations a very material saving over the cost delivered of the danish flint pebbles for tube mills will be demonstrated the cessation of the bitter cold weather and consequent thawing of the heavy snow covering the ground has caused several operators to start up plants and get machinery and pumps in shape for mining and sluicing of pay gravel A rich strike of pay dirt has been recently opened up by four italians operating a lease on the lucky fraction ground owned by the four leaf placer company near the mouth of the manhattan gulch the property formerly known as the albion millett company has resumed operations erat ions this is a gold silver proposition with a large tonnage of medium grade concentrating cent rating ore in sight the vein being opened up by tunnels at different levels run into a steep mountain side the location of the property is about two miles west of mill millett ett post office about forty five miles north from manhattan on the western slope of smokey valley besides the lateral work opening up the vein a shaft feet deep has been sunk on the ledge and from the bottom level three feet of sulphide ore has been exposed A small concentrating mill has been built at the mine the present operators are lonn sullivan |