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Show fflll COMPLETE TO ROCHESTER MILL Manager Cowan Confident That Camp Will Be Large One, and Permanent. Confident that Rochester is to be one of the bl mining camps of Nevada and a permanent one, and saying that the Nevada Short Line railway would be completed com-pleted lo the camp within thirty days from Nenzel on the Southern Pacific and that the new ten-stamp mill located at Lower Rochester would be operating within that time, John F. Cowan, general manager of the ' Rochester Mines company, com-pany, returned to Salt Lake yesterday. The stamp mill lias a capacity of luO tons per twenty-four hours. With the present tonnage that Is blocked out it will have work ahead of it for 500 days , from but one of the leases on the Roches- 1 t.er Mines ground. Tentntive plans are : being considered by the company for the I treatment of custom ores, but for more than a year the plant will he taxed to 1 its capacity to handle the present tonnage. ton-nage. The railroad Is now completed to the present mill site and the construction work on the plant Is being rushed towa.rd i completion as rapidly as possible. Pres-! Pres-! ent indications point to the three small j camps growing together. The largest ; ore producers are located at the head of the canyon, while the mill Is located in I th-e lower end. I Sit! ce the discovery of the camp and the leasing of blocks of ground by the 1 various lessees I here have been shipped , to Hazen about t58 cars, ranging in values between $20 a nd $S0 to the ton. Up to December 1 the output of 25.S15 tuns showed a gross return of ?60i5,fi23.50, of which amount $49, 406 was received by the compfl nlea as royalties and the remainder, re-mainder, $230,269.80, went to the lessees. The Rochester Mines company was reorganized re-organized recently. The present directors are L. A. Friedman W. C. Pitt, Judge J. P. O'Brien, J. F. Cowan and S. Piatt. In order to handle the ore from the mine, a tramway Is to be constructed from a point equal to the 400-foot level of the Codd lease for a distance of several sev-eral hundred feet to the railroad. The ore will be dumped directly Into the ore cars and taken to the mill. In the event t ha t the road t a not completed un til spring and the mill according to schedule, sched-ule, teams will haul the ore. |