Show the gold dust and others of oatman SPECIAL CORR correspondence CU oatman ariz nov 24 the new process of treating ore without stamps which it is claimed after development may be done at 1 per ton is now in use in the mill of the gold dust mines company in this camp thus far it has been successful the ore is first crushed and then passed into a ve rizer working on a centrifugal principle this grinds it to mesh and on the first run here it was found that about 25 per cent of it reaches that fineness the most of it reaches mesh the first grinding after reaching mesh which is necessary in this camp on account of the extreme fineness of the gold it is passed into a centrifugal gold separator this consists of a revolving bowl with riffles fiffles in the sides the riffles fiffles being filled with quicksilver which rises by the whirling motion of revolutions a minute inside is a stationary bowl which holds the pulp close to the quicksilver the distance between being from ones one eighth to one thirty second of an inch this forces the finest of the gold into contact with the quicksilver which during the motion plasters the surface of the outer bowl its greater specific gravity forces the gold through the quicksilver and the amalgam thus formed settles into the riffles fiffles rif fles the gold dust has sixty tons of ore in the bins ready for treatment and more being broken brokel down in the in which a chute has been installed big tonnage at boundary cone A huge tonnage tonna ge awaits the advent of a mill at the boundary Boun lary cone mine your correspondent today made a tour of the underground workings four levels have been opened the and and on each are immense bodies of milling ore four thousand feet of work has been done an immense amount of ore that with improved conditions will pay to mill in the 5 to 7 a ton class which in many camps would be a fortune could be broken down and hoisted any time otherwise there are values in places of 20 30 and even 50 the showing would justify a mill now drifting in ore at two points east and west on the and one east on the continues the pioneer mine on the same vein system with the paramount lexington gol conda and arizona tom reed has a showing of like immensity and has expended upwards of in development the ir management ana gement estimates ore in sight at easily from to the shaft is soon to be continued to the foot level two new veins opened during the past ten days there have been notable developments in two oatman properties and a third is now coming into the center of attention the nellie company operating in the black range section of the district sent its crosscut on the foot level through more than thirty five feet of vein matter of which twenty five feet was ore averaging better than 12 per ton gold measured Alea at right angles the ore shoot is about seventeen feet in width drifting has now started on the ore shoot in both choth directions the operators expect much higher values to the east of the shaft judging by surface indications the united northern to the north of the united eastern something over a mile has on the foot level crosscut a vein fifty three feet in width about sixteen feet of this is good mill grade ore the vein is somewhat faulted and broken at this point and drifting is now being started started in both directions this is one of the largest veins ever opened in the district at this depth and mining men are of the opinion on that when drifting encounters a narrowing of the vein high values are to be expected the entire vein is strongly mineralized the shaft will be carried down to feet depth for lateral work at greater depth the third property is the iowa which at a depth of feet has entered its vein from the side and is showing some eight feet of milling ore drifting to the west is in progress ss and shows that the vein is widening I 1 and values increasing mining men regard the showing ns as pointing to important results within a short time this thi s adds three nw properties to the immediate imi i ile diate possibilities in the district if iny any one of them develops large solid bodies of j ore are of the usual oatman grade during the next few weeks oatman will be given give new impetus other properties the carter company has been re financed according to official announcement shares having been sold for a price of 19 cents per share this money going into the treasury tho the sale agreement calls for continuous operation for six months at the rate of shifts per month the interests making the purchase control two nearby near by properties and are planning the erection of a ton mill to handle the ores from the carter and other properties the carter has quite a large tonnage of fine milling ore blocked out on three levels down to feet depth work at greater depth will now be vigorously prosecuted the ivanhoe has its new compressor and pumping plant installed and as soon as the mine can be pumped out will resume development work on the foot level when the water drove the miners out a full face of ore had just been encountered for some time a drift had been driving along a spur vein and the inflow of water appears to have started when the main vein was encountered the black range is prosecuting a steady development campaign and is using an old shaft just at the eastern end of the nellie ground the shaft is being re timbered down to the foot level this is about completed and sinking will be started in a few days some very fine ore has been cut by this shaft which is an incline on the vein development in the eastern workings of the tom reed in the axtel bald li eagle agle and grey eagle claims superintendent rabb is working out processes and figuring on equipment for a ton mill for chiq new mine of the tom reed and states that lie he believes he will be able to devise a plant which will enable this ore to be mined and milled at a cost of less than per ton tho old 20 stamp mill of the company is running at full capacity on ors taken from the den ben harrisson mine of the toni tom reed it is notable that development on the 1400 foot level has encountered the pay shoot activity is increasing throughout the district and the steady development campaign of the past year is expected to culminate by a succession of successes during the next two or three months |