Show A VISIT TO THE FL orida FLORIDA MILL nugget had the pleasure of taking a trip through the florida mountain mill at dewey this week along with master mechanic analis T he TP found that bi biff concern running so smoothly and satisfactorily that hp was to doubt if thare was another mill in idaho where everything is run with as perfect a system and with as small an amount of manual labor three dynamos connected with the electric transformer house near at hand turn all the machinery one connected with a jack shaft near the top ton of the mill runs the rock crusher batteries and concentrators a second one runs the amalgamating pans settlers pulp and quicksilver elevators the third one runs the well equipped machine shop on the ground floor electric stoves dry the concentrates and battery samples heat the assay office and change rooms electric lights are placed everywhere where a piece of machinery has to be looked after or oiled there is such a profusion of lights and electric appliances in the big building that we were constrained to remark that they must consume a big amount of power yes replied mr englis but then we have power to burn and fuel costs money the ore delivered from the tunnel is crammed in and weighed at the top of the mill dumped on a grizzley the coarser rock fed through a crusher and all decendy into automatic feeders at the batteries runs over concentrators and into the amalgams tors with scarcely a shovel touching it indeed it is a surprise to see so few men about the mill it is a model for labor saving nugget silver city idaho |