Show TINTIC MILLING PLANT LACKING SUITABLE ORE MAY CLOSE some time during the next month or two the tintic gintic milling company will complete a clean up of tailings on which the plant is now being operated and it is b generally understood that preparations will then be made mad e for a temporary shutdown officials of the knight investment company admit that such action was decided on at a recent meeting of the board which controls the milling plant according to the eureka reporter for some time the tintic gintic mill has not been getting tonnage enough to insure its operation at the highest stage of efficiency there being lots of low grade ore in this district but not all of it is amendable to this process of milling the chief object of the plant is to save the silver values and the slump in the p price rice of silver naturally dealt the local mill a hard blow but there are reasons to believe that when the shutdown comes operations will not be suspended for a long period of time for many years the tintic gintic mill has operated in m a successful manner and while the earnings of the plant have never neve r been large lare lar 6 e the owners of the enterprise have been satisfied with a small margin of profit bein being b repaid to a certain extent by the knowledge that the mill was performing perform ill 9 a wonderful service for the mining industry of gintic tintic as it 6 took care of ore that did not contain values es enough to ly withstand ith the heavier expense of shipment to the smelters shelters sm elters during recent years some very refractory ore was put pu through the mill and naturally all of the values were not saved hence the management has found it profitable to 0 again t work over a lot of the mills tailings which h have beell bee kept separate and which form a very valuable st stock ock pa pile I 1 such work may keep the mill busy for the greater part the summer and the sulphide ore necessary for the roa roas sting u I 1 0 of the tailings will come from the iron blossom and gintic tintic li the standard property aside from this limited tonnage mill will continue to take all favorable ore from other ot knight mines according to supt bupt lyman baker who oi also all states that far cle cleanup antip 0 as as possible there will be a the ore on hand aswell as well as supplies used in the operation ot of plant i pile nile it should not be understood that all of the stock the that can be treated to advantage 6 will be put throng tigh sands plant in a short time on the contrary there are thou of tons of dump material which will doubtless be g given I 1 baker similar treatment some time in the future SU bupt supt pt that if it is a s sini tiffi clell g says possible for the mill to get ill 1 amount of virgin b ore to insure a proper mixture wi with be ings from the stock pile the impending shutdown may w averted indefinitely as operating expenses have beet bee med down to some extent if ein H R trenholm when asked what effect th the e clodin aiosi soll the mill at silver city will have on the iron Blos I 1 not ot an dragon and colorado properties stated that he did for the j further reductions in the working for arces ces beeg reason that highly satisfactory si sm elting rates have ha g or secured and under binder such an arrangement ore of 01 binary grade can be sent to the smelters shelters sm elters |