Show THE ONTARIO MILL park record work on the new ontario concentrator near no 2 shaft was abandoned this week and superintendent A D moffat has a large working force now engaged in dismantling and tearing down the old mill at the mouth of the canyon this move was made necessary hy by the condition of the ground where the foundation for the new building was being laid which was found to be too soft for practical purposes and as it did not improve any as the work progressed the new plan was very wisely adopted while the old mill is situated just as desired with the necessary alterations and improvements it can he be made to answer the purpose quite as well as a new structure the pan floor will be let stand and it will be necessary to raise about eighty feet to the tunnel level and when this is done a small hoist will be installed to raise the ore from the tunnel to the mill thus making it very conveniently handled while the work of tearing down is going on in the upper part of the building joseph lubeck has a force of men employed on the ground floor sluicing a bed of quicksilver that was found under one of the tanks it appears that a leak occurred in ill this particular tank and for the twenty odd years that the mill was in continual operation it was being absorbed and taken up u by the earth underneath the hole from which the dirt is now being taken is already twenty feet deep and the ground is still ill just as impregnated with quicksilver as ever with no sign of its giving out mr g P 04 6 u d 44 i 1 l t 02 04 A all 41 OR nah 4 lq 1 I ap W M mx Z M 4 ap W K f u gap AV 0 K N 11 MT R A W N 0 jali R Z 67 W V mines and metallurgy building worlds fair st louis 1904 lubeck is going to put a night shift on very soon now and has had electric lights put in for that purpose water is somewhat scace however so that it will be necessary to have each shift shovel its own dirt that is they shovel dirt for half a shift and sluice the other half one hundred and seventy five flasks flacks of the product each one of them weighing seventy six and a half pounds have already been taken out so it is plain to be seen that the proposition is a splendid paying one three bars of silver bullion have also been taken from the pans and this alone brought from 1300 to 1500 |