| Show mining and milling at i fay correspondence ordence clel on dence fay nevada jan 25 the operations of the shawmut nevada mining milling company are instilling new life into the different companies and properties in the vicinity of fay and the country is fast taking on new life the opening up of the snowflake property has been a surprise to even the oldest inhabitant its immense ore bodies and values being beyond anything that was of over 1000 tons have been hauled to the horseshoe mill from the big quarry and yet it seems as though the surface had been scarcely scratched the ledge is over feet wide all carrying milling values while the portions that have been worked about thirty feet wide run about 1200 in gold and in silver several examinations have been made of this property recently by well known mining men and all have united in pronouncing it one of the biggest gold propositions ever uncovered in the western country one ex expert perta a man of national reputation declared that he was astonished at the magnitude of the proposition as presented in the snowflake group he could not reallie realize how such bodies of ore had remained so long undeveloped so closed close to a mining center as this property is to salt lake on four different ledges the smallest one ten feet wide the largest feet ore bodies have been opened up running from 6 and 8 to mr G pray smith the president and manager of the shawmut com company piny is now in the east arranging with his associates for the erection of a 1000 ton mill on the snowflake during the coming season the horseshoe mine has also been a surprise to all abandoned by A W W me mc cune and associates as a worked out mine mind it has developed into a rich property with more ore in sight than at any time during former operations A large amount of development work is being done and crosscuts cross cuts are being run both to the west and east on the foot level to intercept known ledges As soon as the ifie mine is sinking will be commenced at once and the shaft will go down to the 1000 foot level in the horseshoe mill numerous delays have occurred usually following the installation of b a new process but everything is getting down now into good running order the shawmut company changed the horseshoe mill from a dry to wet process using now the trent OCh chilian ilian mills and plate amalgamation followed by the coxe slimes and precipitating press the latter being entirely new while mr geo coxe boxe the inventor and associates made broad claims for their process the portion of the plant now in successful operation more than justifies them in claiming it to be the most feasible and perfect plant of the kind in operation oper tion the work so far has proven beyond a doubt that ores crushed with stamp batteries and other wet methods wherein there is a prevalence of slimes can be successfully and economically treated the process consists of a sand separator slime separator clarifier and precipitator which takes the product from mills or amalgamation ga mation tables and makes a thorough separation of sands and slimes the sands ar are treated by cyanide in about one half the usual time owing to the freedom of percolation the slimes are fed into a large upright cylindrical tank fitted with cones at each end emptying into an inner cone and passing through a 4 inch pipe about six feet down into the tank the slimes settle to the bottom and the clear water passes up and out into a tank tobe to be used again the slimes are drawn off from the bottom of the tank as the occasions demands and treated in a solution the precipitator by agitation brings into contact with zinc dust all the gold in the solution and is so constructed ted as to draw off the product or precipitate as soon as deposited eliminating the possibility of dissolution re and re pre capitation the success of the coxe process at the horseshoe mill will no doubt bring it into great favor for the cost of installation and operation is very small compared with other processes the homestake Home stake mill at deer lodge has been closed for some time due to the installing of a cyanide plant the coxe process is being put in at this mill work will start in a few days the mine is in fine condition no work has been done yet towards opening up the ore bodies below the tunnel level but it is the intention to sink a soon to develop them phil beek beck the foreman of the home stake and dark clark miller are opening up a fine property south of the gold bug at deer lodge recent assays essays run high in silver the jennie gold mining company is doing some work in its tunnel and expects soon to put on quite a force of men J L mcmullen has opened up a fine new ledge on his property it is about two feet wide and liberally sprinkled with the yellow metal 0 A short has made a strike on the carnegie group uncovering about four feet of 8 ore this group lies north of the jumbo and east of the property the amethyst and wild irish is responding nd nicely to development work several new ledges of good values having been recently uncovered the irus continues to look well with de A new mill is a possibility for this property in the near future C A SHORT |
