Show MAY DAY D MACHINERY Four Concentrators Twenty Tons Capacity Each r J CONTRACT IS MADE FOR THEM machinery Is to Bo In The New nhiner B by the Tenth of Feb Operation Strike of HIgliGfade ruary Kldi Strio HIslIad Oro in Good Quantities Reported in the Old Elkhorn on Wood RiverA Car of Concentrates Received Prom of Argent Development the West ArgentDevelopre1t the New Yosemite Mining Notes I I concentrator will be operat I A new concenlrltor wi ing on the milling ores of the MayDay I May-Day Mining company by the 10th of obstacle I February unless sonic unforeseen stacle presents itself The arrangements I were all completed yesterday between I the management of the May Day and President A J Harrell of the Crown Gold Hilling company of San Francisco who came here to close the deal The plant will consist of Tour concentrators I of twenty tons capacity each a day I and will be located partly on the MayDay May-Day grounds and partly on the Lake South Go view claim belonging to the diva company the arrangement for dla which location has been provided for lease for 1500 In order five car8 by a fvc years fO to obtain an advantageous position for handling the May Day ores of which vast quantity The mill Is to it has a quantty mi be put up at the expense oC the California I fornia company and will be operated by F A Flint and S W Mosby on a percentage of the mills production The process Is a new one and Is known as the dry 1 process of milling and concentrating con-centrating no water being needed < x ccpt for steam and in this instance the power will be furnished by electricity elec-tricity The ores arc crushed assorted i and then run over n revolving cloth belt through which from below air is forced which drives 00 the lighter particles par-ticles of the ore leaving the heavier ones containing the metals The process pro-cess has been invented about a year and Its practicability has been tested 10 the satisfaction of Its owners by an experimental plant In San Francisco and the mill on the May Day will be the first one to be erected for practical use No mills will be placed said Mr HarreJl until after tests have been made with the ores and the experi w111 ments with samples from the May Day have been very satisfactory andcon centrates yielding SSO a ton have been obtained from Its 10 ore Mr Harrell t n large owner In SparksHarrell Cattle company in Nevada and Is Interested Inter-ested in several mining prospects In that StatQ and at other places In the south lie has much confidence In the dry process of concentrating and expects ex-pects to realize large returns from Its use in localities where water cannot be obtained |