Show LARGER TONNAGE T NAC AT LOWER ii COST More ore equipment has br bc been n placed d at the tho disposal of of tho the Santa Io Fe branch operatIng ing InS between beten Hurley an and the pits with the re result ull that th tho the company is 15 now making a a. larger extraction The Tho mill Is la reported to ho bo t treaty treating r In ln the neighbor hood of ot 2000 tons tons' dally daily though the two sections now ny in ln operation are capable of or handling handling- 2 2500 5 0 00 tons dally Tho The railroad company has lis' promised to provide pro addi lIonal equipment J In order that the tho Chino company can cati commission Jt its third sec roc Uon after which upwards upward of or tons tOM ii will bo put through the tho mill every tW four twenty nt-Cour nt hours Tho The monthly report just received d by tho the management from th the Chino proper property y iii very favorable av rable Ono One of ot tho most mORl sig- sig features in tn the report Is 18 that the being handled bandied by th the s mill has ha been steadily Increasing until it has hall beet been brought nearly nearh up to tho the nominal 1 en capacIty capac capac- pac pac- It ity or of of the units The Tho plant has haa been handling handling- un an average of or 1100 tons tons' per week s In itt th the two units no now In commission commis don sion lIon or nearly 1000 tons per unit per lIa day The Tho grade r. r of or ore ore oreOn on which 1 tho the mill has haI been working has beet been a from Crom 22 2 pet per cent to 3 1 per r cent copper per Pel tot ton the tho hulk of which has been carbonates B By removing ln this ore ore in sixty or 01 ninety days days' time there thero will b he three points of attack for fo- th the steam Stean shovels shoel and nd the mine will then bo ho In a position If necessary to produce from Ol to tons of oC ore JH per r day daf V Very r good progress is being made in opening up the e pits and thor there will III probably be no difficulty In the tho mines mine's supplying at n any time the tho tonnage re required rc- rc for Cor tho the concentrator The Tue third unit of or the company's mill millis is now nearing completion and should hould be bo placed in commission b by the end of or th the present month The plant is Id In vets very good rr results and on an average grade grado sulphide ore has hll ta been on making an e. e extraction of oC around 70 per pcr cent Although but two fifths of ot the ChIno concentrator is In oD operation and these th two units have been In commission but bitt buta bitta a A. short time tho the cost of producing CO cop cop- I per por I los is only t slightly above abne S cents per pel pound at the present time This t is a amo mo most t satisfactory showing and wen even on onI tho the present restricted output Is much lower than the original estimates s of ot tho the I engineers ba based d on the entire plant nt ii In commission With the company's millIng milling mill mill- ing cost brought down to normal when tho the concentrator tor I Is working to capacity and operating smoothly a a. considerable I reduction In cost Olt should be arJe below tho the present figure fig |