Show THE montgomery SHOSHONE MILL herald rhyolite nev the busiest spot in the bullfrog district these days is at the montgomery shoshone mine and mill A trip to that interesting place shows many motors humming and innumerable wheels turning while an endless stream of ore is passing from the bins bing through the various processes necessary to extract the values the whole plant seems to be working finely though no doubt the tuning up process will still be going on for several days about tons ton of ore were eaten up by the huge crushers on wednesday which is only a third of what will be handled when operations are under full sway when the big steam hoist brings the ore to the surface it is dumped into the ore bins at the mill passing through chutes to the crushers as desired then going through the samplers rolls and screens to the silver plated copper plates where the free gold is recovered by amalgamation ga mation the pulp then passes to the dorr classifiers separating the sands fron from the slimes the sands are then treated on the wilfley tables and the slimes on the frue banners Van ners the sands and slimes then go to the distributing and separating tanks and on through the stages of cyaniding cyan iding until the precipitates are finally reduced to bullion in the reduction plant the water question which is always such a serious matter in a desert country has been settled in an entirely satisfactory manner danner the electric pump at the station on the opposite of bonanza mountain fills a gallon tank lank which supplies the mill and a besides this ample supply gallons gallon are pumped daily from the shaft this can be utilized as needed the h P com coln engine was started wednesday for the first time this will be used to work the mine pumps and also to run the m 1 chine drills the second shift was put on at the mill this week and the third will be added later the starting of the mill has in no way interfered with the shipments ol of ore which continue to go out at the rate of a carload per day and most of the cars are of fifty tons capacity the few visitors who are allowed to go through the mill pronounce it one of the finest they have ever seen it is undoubtedly first class in every respect and built for real work |