Show WALKER MINING COMPANY shipments of between eighty and tons of concentrates each day are now being sent out by the walker mining company in plumas county california and rapid progress is being made in driving the long transportation and drain tunnel according to J R walker who has just returned from a trip to the property the mill is doing excellent work and its capacity has been enlarged a large amount of timber has been cut and sawed and connections have been made so that electricity is now used throughout the property at present four white trucks with a carrying capacity of five tons each are hauling concentrates from the mill to the railroad the trucks make two trips a day carrying between eighty and tons a day the mill had been nearly doubled by the addition of another ball mill so that between and tons of ore a day goes through the plant this notation flotation plant is making a saving of approximately 97 per cent besides the copper concentrates carry between 8 and 12 a ton in gold and silver mr walker says that there is still piled up at the plant and stored in the bins as large a tonnage of concentrates as there was three months ago driving the long tunnel under contract the tunnel is rapidly nearing it subjective ive point the tunnel starts from the mill and is crosscutting the veins when mr walker left it was in a distance of 2250 feet and during july feet of work was done two big burley drills are pounding away aay at the face with three shifts there are thirty seven benat menat men at work in driving the tunnel which is 19 large and has an adequate waterway the tunnel will reach the objective which is a large vein at approximately feet so that it seems probable that this will be within ninety days after that it will be necessary to drift along the ledge for 1200 feet to reach a point under the old shaft in the old workings some immense 4 0 are being developed mr walker says that one shows a width of fifty feet all of which has been ore another immense ledge of ore is now being opened up which is 1300 feet away from the big ore body developed this contains considerable and it is expected that it will be opened up before the holidays big tailings pond contractors are now at work on the dam for the mills big tailings pond for the impounding of the tailings for the plant it is declared that with a ton mill the company could earn in the neighborhood of 3 a year according to the present savings the eighty foot right of way through the timber belt which is one of the heaviest in california has been cleared for the tramway and about 60 per cent of the towers are now up it is expected that this will be in operation before the snow interferes with the truck shipments the company has already cut between and feet of lumber and states that feet will be cut before the work is stopped this in itself is a large asset for the company as it is sugar pine and there is scarcely a knot in it this is worth a thousand while the cost cost to the company is said to be in the neighborhood of 17 a thousand the power line has been connected up and the property is all electric lighted and the hoist drills and mill are all operated by electricity the walker bros consolidated and the alta alice which are two immense copper properties adjoining the walker mining and which are controlled by the walker bros are now under bond and lease to new york interests these are to be tested out with diamond drills two drills will shortly be at work on each of these properties one of these contains a mile square of ground salt lake daily herald |