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Show ft DOW FINE WORK jjjl ATMON PUT Smelter Is Treating Large K Tonnage and at Greatly- ' m Reduced Costs. i M MANY CUSTOMERS SHIP i Mining of Ore Also Brought GlS Down to Fine Point by If the Company. If In addition to haing exceeded by al- ul most lOf) per cent, the rated capacity of m its Initial blast, furnace In actual opera- ' It ,lon' 1)10 MaE0" Va"ey company at its M Thompson plant Is making a Hew Jow Hi cost record that will be a. matter of as- m ' lonlshmont when the detailed figures are cltSl released some day. Fred Flindt, who He9 has beon closely In (ouch with all the i thM Ma eon district for many years, has been hV going over the camp again for n week M: or ten days past, returning yesterday. yR and he states that the Mason Valley olffi, company is operating at one-third the uflB labor per ton of ore treated that is ordl- , HB narllv the case I Cwl onI" ls t,,c management mnking a I fl3 splendid record at the smelter, but In ' tl the mine as well, and Mr. Flindt gives i Jm some facts that cast sreat credit upon fffln the manner in which the management I mK prepared the property for production. cjH From the COO level the stoplng operation i (K are being carried on as follows: The m management is keeping enough broken TO f ln several different spots to permit jS the machines to rest on top and high jffiS enough to work. Each point has its own S ore chute, each pile of accumulated ore yfi is relioved of the necessary amount of ml broken ore to maintain room for the ma- 03' chines, stoplng operations being shifted ' 8' Jrom one place to anotlicr as demanded. 1 Costs Are -Very Low. H This system places several months of ; S ore. supplies available at all times, and 1 no timbering is required, the height, of 1 tlio ore broken Increasing as the stopes progress. There arc only sixteen miners 9 used In this process and these sixteen are providing an average of 300 tons dally for the smelter, i There has been some speculating lately late-ly 0:1 the reason for the Mason Valley 9 o'res not exceeding an average of SJ to 4 i ' per cnt copper. When asked regarding ; this, Mr. Flindt, said that the management manage-ment finds that thero is a large extent I of the surface which heretofore litis been H considered Utile more than waste, but Kg which holds some carbonates of copper I H associated with lime, now being quarried H and mixed with the higher grade sul-l sul-l phides from bolow, the combination mak- m lug an Ideal smelting material as well 3s BB affording an opportunity for realizing on f HI !l ar larger ore tonnage, than was at i R first depended on. As far as the sul-fE sul-fE phlcles themselves go, the average values, u are holding to the assays long ago dcter-Mf dcter-Mf mined with a faithfulness denoting the , 3 caw in which the original estimates ft! were collected. The mine throughout la I Hi In splendid shape and should the man-it man-it agment deem It worth while to feed the Ikei smelter just for the fun of making rer-EE rer-EE ord runs, with no care or thought for the Ew good r" tll'i m'ne in the long run, the Mm mine would be able to stand up under Hp the test In splendid fashion. H Dozen Customers. lHn The Mason Valley smelter ia now re- gj reiving ores from twelve custom shippers, HflQ and ab well is the first-furnace handling IBB the business that it muy be three or four iPJli months before the second blast is placed Mil In rommldsion. A duy or two ago the m? furnace, the rated capacity of which is MJtt -100 tons of ore daily, handled 710 tons ipjtj of ore, and Sol! tons of total charge, In Sit twenty-four hours. flu The business of the smelter is growing 8 fast- The Nevada Douglas company Is Vj increasing Its lonnage and facilities so K fast, says Mr. Flindt. that the shipments Ef from this one source can he raised to H SOO tons or more dally within sixty oi yfln ninety days. Tho McConnell Is sending HJI in fifty tons daily and this amount will fly he Increased soon. The Yerlngton Cop- HIH per company Is another prospoctive shlp- PJbI per now getting ready to market some PHHa fine copper rock, and the Tcrlngton Mal- PHKn aclilte company should be one more to PHflK add Its tonnage .shortly to the sum total. PHBjj The Empire-Nevada company Is a steady PHHfl shipper, also. PHaK The district, says Mr. "Flindt. Is cx- PHHy tremely busy and happy, everyone is ); making money and positive that the good times are tlierA for good. Visitors to f the camp should wire well ahead for ! rooms, for many, Mr. Flindt included. 5; have been compelled to sleep all night in chairs in the hotel lobby, not a room ! in all the town being available. |