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Show RUSHING WORK ON NEWjnNTIC MILL Management Expects to Have New Plant Treating Treat-ing Ore by January. Work on the new mill at Silver City, In the Tintlc district, being constructed by the Tintic Milling- company, jg being rushed forward as rapidly as possible, according to George H. Dem, vice president presi-dent and general manager of the company. com-pany. At the present rate of progress it is expected that the new structure will be completed and treating the low-grade ores from tho Knight properties in January. Janu-ary. In the neighborhood of seventy-five men are now employed on the construction construc-tion work. The excavating and the concrete work for the new plant has been practically completed. The foundation for the crusher is in and the crusher has already been set. The management is now confining the work to the building of the ore bins, which are expected to be completed within with-in a few days' time. The work of putting put-ting In the rolls is also under way, but the new material. In the shape of machinery ma-chinery that has been ordered has not as yet arrived. Besides treating the ore from the Knight properties the new plant, which will use a combination of the Holt-Dern and Knlght-Christensen processes, will treat custom ores. The capacity will be about 300 tons per day. The management manage-ment of the new reduction works has secured se-cured options on a number of large dumps throughout the Tintic district that contain immense quantities of low-grade ore. It is understood that the Eureka Hill dump, containing in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of 240,000 tons, has been secured The ore is said to run $5 to the ton and due to the fact that it can be placed, in the mill at a cost of a few cents per ton It In believed that it can be handled profitably. |