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Show Til K M AKSAC Mil l. ISITKIV. , An Interesting lluilgrt of romleneeii New Kroin I'ark City, Pa iik Citv. May '.ti - (Special Th Ma ixto mill Is well worth a visit, and c-peeiallv so w hen made In the company com-pany of Mr. ilson, the genial foreman. fore-man. Front the lop of the building the ore from the mine is fed into a revolving revolv-ing dryer, thence gradually into a cart, and tiually dumped into the feeders, where it is crushed into a line lowiler iuto which is fed powdered sail. This powder is Iheu taken to lite furnace where it Is healed to a white heat. Xet it is scattered on what is called the cooling floor, sprinkled with water and then lakru lo the different tanks where the precion metals are sepal ated by means of chemical action Alter passing through thee lank the metals are put into a hot air dryer and left there unlit perleclly drv.' ami is then taken out ami passed through a grinder, which reduces lliem to a tine powder very much resembling lamp muck. They are Iheu put into bag ready for shipment to the smelting work. During the visit of Tiik Timed' cor-respondept cor-respondept lo the mill, one of the brace beams near the furnace wan noticed to boon lire, It was. however, etlug uished almost lief ore It had sprung iuio u hlaxe. The air In (he mill Isconliuually tilled with a line dust, very like flour, that settles thickly on tlie chillies of the visitor. Park City is one of the richest towns in the countv. All the mines in its vaoinity are rich In gold silver and lead. It will be but a short time until lis natural advantages will bring to it capital from every section of the eoiintrv. The band boys gave an open air cou-ccrt cou-ccrt last night.' Countv Assessor O. C, Lockhart was at Coalville yesterday. William brothers, the druggist, have put in a new soda fountain. There are several ea-.es of measles reported re-ported In the clly this week. 'The council will probably have a special meeting Saturday nlgid. The Park Clly base ball club will play with the Holier club tomorrow afternoon. after-noon. Tho city Is soon lo have a gymnasium ami there is also talk of organizing a guitar club. The Misses ,lotgeon entertained number of ihelr young friends nt their homo last evening. The baseball club is practicing daily and promises to give the Salt Lukcr a hard Ite-slo next lime they meet 'the Northland Mining Co. has received re-ceived the machinery for Its new hoisting hoist-ing engine, which will be put In at onee, Tim weight of tho machinery is over thirteen tons. (i. W. Pearson, one of the argonauts who went nut lo California, In '411 and has been residing resid-ing there during I lie past six months, returned home last nighl. |