Show THE JOHNNIE consolidated MILL A boquet is thrown to fairbanks morse co machinery dealers special correspondence johnnie nevada sept 20 the camp campis is now beginning to put on new life and outside operators are coming in daily for the purpose se of looking over the big work on johnnie consolidated one week ago 11 1 1 last monday I 1 the crew of elliott and drescher of prescott arizona arrived and immediately started work putting up the big hoist and installing the fifty horsepower engine to run it with this new crew now at work about the mine the number of men working on this property alone fills the camp with activity indeed there are over fifty men working t on johnnie consolidated the is completed and the foundations ready for putting up the stamps immediately the hoisting plant is installed which will take about ten more days work in putting up the mill will begin as all the big machinery is now on the site with the exception of the engine to run the stamps this is now from the east and will be here in ample time for installation when the engineers reach this part of the work the foundation is also ready for the compressor plant it is given out by elliott that the mill will be one of the finest plants he ever put up and that it will be all completed and turned over to the referee mr parry for approval op under contract terms within the time covered in the contract mr elliott says further that it will be the record in time for putting up a plant of this magnitude there has not been a single hitchi hitch either in delivery of machinery or in work preparatory to its erection said mr elliott and we are so pleased with the work that I 1 have asked fairbanks morse co to take photographs of the plant at its different stages of construction to show what this record in mill construction means the big working shaft on the mine has now cut through to the deep workings so that when the mill starts ore can be taken from any of the drifts mr moser who has charge of mine development work says that when the mill starts he can get out ore far in excess of the mill capacity so that half of the drills of the compressor plant can be put to work driving the deeper workings under the rich ore shoots lately opened up on the crown point globe and which have been developed to the johnnie consolidated end lines the value of the johnnie consolidated has been greatly increased by the developments on the globe in one particular alone a ledge of four feet has been scoped to the johnnie lines carrying values of very high grade ore the globe is still sloping this rich ore in deeper workings of that property A shaft is now being driven on the main johnnie ledge which crosses the globe so that the rich vein can be cut again at adji a depth of about three hundred and fifty feet A hoist was installed at these workings the past week D G doubleday of san francisco has given orders to have a big mill run of high grade ore ready for or milling over one hundred tons of high grade ore is ready for the first mill run U M thomas begins work on the bull frog johnnie next month equipment is now on the property ready for the first mill run the big mill on johnnie consolidated will be in operation december 1st ast ROBT BURGH |