Show STORY OF THE MILLS the kerbur more ur as pioneer with fifteen operating or assured the tha story of the cyanide mill in camp floyd mining district affords as important a chapter an aa that told etolil in the discovery of the great deposit depo siti of gold for its introduction the camp la Is indebted to tho the untiring researches of those who had bad acquired the mercer mine and who had determined to find a means for or the successful conversion of its hi ores orea into gold bold bullion tho the task was wad it a laborious ono one an expensive one the smelter could not handle them because of the almost total absence of fusible metals such as lead their values could not be saved through and other processes that lied had been devised and not until it was earned that a weak solution of at cyanide contained the secret was the era ot of gold milling inaugurated at marcur experiments with tile the macarthur loi eat process ls that was then in successful operation orte ratto I 1 in gold fields ot of south africa had demonstrated its adaptability to the treatment of the mercur ores area and preparations were begun for the th erection ot of a mill then however another obstacle arose in tho the absence ot of water and a diligent search we was abe begun andaas tor for that th t element over in fair field canyon was round found a spring sp ring that afforded a steady but limit limited ed supply of water it was owned by moso mose man ilan ping and although moso thought a good deal perhaps of 0 tho the plat on oil which lie ho had made his home and which was dependent on tile the spring for or irrigation ho he had his price and when was tendered tend ored him sold tho the place this acquired tho the foundation for or a mill was perfected in 1831 tho the carpenters antom began work and a few months later fe A t the tanks were in and leaching was begun it was not until november however that the first cleanup clean up of precipitates was aas made that the process was made mad to do its duty and tracers lillian bullion began to go into the companas company comp anys ii treasury WATCHED THE RESULT probably no baill ope operation radon was ever more rigidly than was that rhe phe owners at 0 tho the adjoining claims in ill which lied had been developed the same name caracter Aar acter of ore hod bad seon seen so many in 1 y experiments peri ments followed by failure that they were vere skeptical radically skeptical the result was reversed however and when tho the neighbors amako to the fact act that shift tho the new process was a success the dawn or of a new ere era of activity wa waa chronicled those who he had permitted their property to lie idle began its energetic de volo Dment ond when in 1192 the mtr liter cur cu produced nearly ounces of kom gold and paid dividend of 0 gotai ith standing the long haul and expensive haul over Avret ched roads tho the marion began to figure on a plant it in nt at the base of art the mountain jn im wb which ell was crips located tho old sparrow pit arow hawk lit k that with otlia joined I 1 in rp tho the I 1 dormar A van aton of the marion mining company a baill aam ar to that put up by tho mer our cur was wan put up lit in june ot of that year it began its operation and gold bullion beran to pour into that company vaults vault since shire that lilly day tho the mill hrs erased ceased to grind and during the tb year 1833 2893 tho the combined product p 0 of tile the ma r earlw and mercer amounted anno unto d to nearly it I 1 ounces ouner s of go id tile marlon 3 procured its lt water from a spring and in the summer of 11 9 1 the e k company which had d developed e aped k a anne C sign are body on oi the nor northeast thep a u lire of the marion hill fell into line find and a to miji was built for or the handling of I 1 to its auriferous bodies of which it la Is said there la in clont now exposed with which to keep its plant lit operation tor for years the of at these properties lM in I 1 the saving of 0 the yellow metal through the use ot of cyanide inspired others to get to work COL WALLS PIPE LINE tho the results with NA which aich they labored soon demonstrated tant to handle tho the ores the volume of 0 which was increasing each day art an additional supply of water must muni be had col U A wall who wa was watching with walh the vigilance of a hawk every stride that was being rondo made by the he camp was waa quick to detect tills this and latched a project that would ace accomplish am tt it it implied tho the construction of a pipeline pipe line for a distance dlF of twelve miles front from ophir ophar creek whore ho he had harnessed to accomplish this single handed ho he round found it it a task too blk biff for fair a man ot of limited capital so li it yea was that lie ho sought the aid 0 if mr me theodore bruback and non iron W S tile the interview intel view resulted in the tha of tile told old licit belt water company P and lid the con summation of a a project through which gettone of water a day are available sin since that time capt delamar IP Lamar has acquired ohalf a halt interest lit in the enterprise A fren AFTER MILL SI SITES TE S then those who avila had faltered in the absence of water begun began to cast about for mill the sunshine mining company in property tour four miles south of mercur mercer another of tho the stupendous ore bodies had been developed was the next neat to begin construction and A ishito lah its plant completed in december last it beglin the production or 0 gold bar then canio came tho the mill at the aft which began its steady operation week ago aco after tho the wooden tanks tank 9 had been replaced by iron inlets t in a fow few weeks work on at least two morr more of these plants through which tho the low flow of gold eold from camp floyd district la Is pouring will have been commenced one on of these will be put up right at the tin mercur mine that the output may bo be more mor handled and tho the product sent to the refinery nry in the form of cyanides cranides cy anides dumped direct from the mine lato into the mill it will enable tho the company to profitably ably handle di A very low grade ern le a ore cherem at present prest t it must most rise to a certain standard to justify its transportation by rail to the mill at the mouth h of nf fairfield canyon As now designed the new plant av will ill begin with it a dally daily capacity of 60 tons which the present mill will enable the company to increase its output to tons a R day and its earnings accordingly another mill and one for which the plans have already been approved Is that through which the ores of t tho ts 0 golden gate are ara to pass already an experimental plant Is upon tho the ground and when it hia has been baen determined by tho the management just whal additions aro am necessary to expel epel the arsenical los of the ore contained in the upper stratum ini in tho the mine the er erection 0 of f a mill of at least east 00 tons capacity it a day will begin developments I 1 in fact that tha ore are now in progress pros ress throughout out the district afford overy every assurance that before another year has dawned fifteen mills will be in op witton in the district and that through them will be passing over aver 2000 tons ton of ore each day |