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Show QUICK WORK WITH THE WILBERT MILL Forl3r Days' Construction Finds Plant Assuming the Form of a Mill. MODERN IN ALL DETAILS Everything Planned to Handle Big Tonnage at Minimum Mini-mum of Expense. ; The many local harchoMcrS' of the Wilbert .Mining company are congratulating congratu-lating the management, and Consulting Engineer Maurice M. Johnson in particular, partic-ular, for the rapid progress that has been made in the construction of the 150-ton concentrating plant at the mine. The first pick Avau driven into the ground at the mlllslte sixty davs ago. rnrpenter began their work on November Novem-ber S. yet progress made Is remarkable, as indicated' by the accompanying nt of 150-Ton Mill of Wilbert Co. the plant. Mr. Johnson believes the plant will be ready for service on February L The management I"11 transported its freight for forty miles, yet tin; mill, within with-in forty days' llnio of the start of operations, oper-ations, has assumed all the outward form of a mill. In November 250 tons of freight were hn tiled to the plant, and much of the machinery Is on the ground and practically nil tho balance is en route. The roadh to the mill are fine, the freighters hauling in an average of one ton per horse. When tho day comes for hanllng out the concentrates the management will utilize one horse for eaeb one nnd a half tons, for the pull is down hill. While the mill is rated at 130 tons dally, Mr. Johnson is positive that It will treat 200 tons, one Item making for efficient ef-ficient concentration being thai CO per cent of the feed will not have to pass through the crushers at all, as .this amount will pass directly from the grizzlies griz-zlies to the Jigs- Another Item making for eeonomitmcl operation Is the 900-foot gravity tramline tram-line connecting the mill ore bins with the No. .1 tunnel. One eight-hour shift will transport via this tram a sufficient tonnage to kern the mill fed to capacity, for three eight -hour shifts, in many wave the plant will be one of economical and efficient extraction of values. The mill will cost In the neighborhood of 510.000. and there nre live or six times this amount awaiting the mill in the ore tonnage ready for extraction. |