Show i fi the Ophir Hlll company ran I 1 their mill about ove five months the ithe past year aga against inist eleven months in 1833 1893 i while this camp company oiny have an ail exten extensive alve mine of low grade ore such so aa could lie mined milled and concentrated at profit under similar conditions to that of 0 three years agnit ago it la Is now a tough loush proposition to keep the pro property porty running this could not be done if there bad not lot lieen been a reduction in miners wages in 11 batles of hauling to the railroad and then ithen in having a mill Is almost completely automatic in its operations the rho ore Is II 11 hoisted th from rom the mine by means mearl of compressed air carried to the mines ines by pipeline from ito cho mill there ito 10 operate the hoist and also the air drills it Is a down grade frado for the ore cars to the ore house at al the top 0 of another tramway which drops the ore into the ore tin bin at the top or of ithe mill from which it passes automatically through breakers rolls rolla Bc reens and jigs with enough arater and ample pressure to carry the concentrates into the storage bin to drain ott off and then be hauled to market another etreal ard and proper sluice ways takes file 6 to 0 pumps down hie be canyon A more mill Ks 63 not to be found cound anywhere three men belner being all that are required to keep keel it running this mill handles per day ol of twenty lour four hours bouis s tons ot of crude ore and turns out 90 0 to 90 tons of concentrates during the tha live months montha run 4 the he past year 1700 tons tona of ore was crushed 1 end and tons tone of concentrates concen lra tea so sent ret to tho the smelters shelters sm elters these concentrates concentrate a olver aged 16 ounces silver 12 per mc cent ent lead 20 26 PV per cent iron SO 90 per cent sulphur 4 A per cent silica and 60 cents in ili gold cold the mill la Is run by water walter power acting I 1 orl on a 2 petton wheel while another wheel operates ates tho air to supply the hoists and drills with power ot of course this gave eave employment to is a large number of teams to lo haul the concentrates concentrate a to terminus j come boino fourteen tour toen or fifteen miles if i distant 1 1 colonel E A wall manager of this K property also designed tile the machinery wad and plans to accomplish such good ewd re lie ha employed during durin the 11 eason beacon I 1 about abbout forty men in mine arid and mill bei sides eldes out ore much pro prospecting I 1 was done divere are two I 1 les one beine ben in BOO ft dt the other aw W feet feel the two being about icet feet apart but on the ithe same sama great lode which dips north about 15 de degrees gives these two inclines InclIne 3 each run down on an ore chute ono one of 1 Is fact vade tile the other acet tho the oro ore bein being from twenty five to I 1 forty twi fee thick such na as can bo be worked 0 nah while ie quo d entire vein Is toot ret thick I 1 this the upper forty fonty to 40 seventy reel feet being I 1 too low aliv grado do to work it la is a vory singular formation for matlon maltion resting on quartz quartz I 1 1 tte me the tha wo ore bodle bodies are in stratified J tl moslem and appear to bo bil examples 1 vt of displacement moro more ulan than else tue lize tu e tho the same camo tn in the As in tho the oro ore bodies sr extend extending ng without a capt at a t the points adhere it chang s jorn ore to stolle and aind vice versa at such euch place littiere Is an and yet this does doea not break up fully the in mining tho the ore near Ws this Interlock tas la Is left because beca iuso too too low krade tills this sketch illustrates this peculiar peo ullar feature seldom it lever ever existing in mines nil nea below the mill all the tailings ta lenyi have been held up by damis until many thousand tons are chwe owai thic a time to be run th roush ano mill adlain ag aln arid and over van ners nors a process which will no doubt pay tor for the light cost of thus didling lid ling the sales of ophir hill alining com banys wes or sampled icons iton snot net rind and brought bi ous ht i malting making an average of pox per ton in tills rhia ore were 1 pounds of lead S D 31 ounces ot of silver said and ounces ot of sold gold exxa making the concen concentrates tra leg e carry ury u ry per cent lead 1588 ounces silver and OS 03 ounces gold per ton utah gern gem 11 C bacorn co secured c lease of tho the lawi gein mill and lately began becan handling old dumps of mines and the old mill tal enss they leased eased the dumps of the tiger monarch end and chloride point mines from which they hey expect export to SOT gem and mill tons of ore v while hile they diey estimate estinia te the mill tailings at tons toils they nicy milled tons of ore prior to Dela december ember which wont twenty rb ft twenty monty five ounces dunces silver and andi about ia 3 in sold gold then they beran began on the mill roell were ere piled up there at als during the past twi ten or fifteen years 3 and herice will te be easily Avo avowed ced from these tailings iahey gt about fifteen ounces silver per ton as well as candidi considerable rable amal eam cam gillern v T w aa 1 lost out of the pans and settlers in raft part years they have in the past thirty days treated about COO to tons n 9 of those hose ta tal lUnes lIngs with good results twelve men are employed and they handle twenty tons of tailings per day heffner queen thle ran company extended thel their long conff tunnel and did other work to a total of teet feet and extracted about 2 0 o tons of ore running 20 per cent load leoa SS 39 ounces silver and gold this Is a very line fluxing flexing ore oe o e and the they are arc now ne afar ar they belleve believe a large larea body of ore end and are for it catherine this old mine bas been partly worked down to a a depth of f acot co c o t but tho the last fifty feet is ia as aa yet almost virgin ground it Is credited with hav L ans 1 I product produced 1 above the fc foot Q t level jew I 1 over V some years lago aso carter ond Robn robinson von are credited with having havins cleared under a lease le aso in fidei me lenont n th n time each with such a record it Is DO wonder ti that at so successful a miner miller as C 11 la Is known to be should want to try his hand fit at there he I ie has been tying trying the past tour four years to got tile the property arid and lately having accomplished his object ho he will voon beila begin vork and add another profitable ble producing mine to the district its ili is 13 now in ohio clea erig up his business for the purpose of again making stockton his home and will soon return here the bover the connor Brot fliers owners lin hove ve a eltoft on this property which la 13 down feet but ai aal yet have no large bodies of ore what they hive ha runs about ounces silver emd and 40 to CO 60 per cent lead it lau laid idle till nore november when it was waa leased to taylor aylor Tl m lamson and erickson choi are am doina work on it this winter and bome ore |