Show ROCHESTER MINES C CO MILL CONSTRUCTION WEL UNDER WAY NAY After After- an absence of between three or four weeks the greater grater part part of which was WI spent sent in the camp of or Rochester President John F F F. Cown CoWAn of or the tho company returned to his home in this city cly late Saturday He lie le was a at his office this morning going over the plans and and specifications spec spec- of tho the proposed re reduction plant Ilant which will wi have hav an Initial tal capacity of oC tOI A 4 number of mill mi men men are here hereto to 10 confer with wih him as the contra contracts ts for I certain machinery machiner and equipment have not been let Mr Cowan says I The company compan has on Its own account i completed a D greater part of or the excavation excava a tion ton work work and Is I now putting UP some somo of I that the retaining walls walla wals for tho the building will wl house the tho mill mi plant It I i in il expected i that tho plant will wI be completed and commissioned com corn by j January 1 li and the contracts will be bo let with wih a a view to getting getting get get- at the earnest earliest ting this Installation made earlest date possible as a n number of ot the leasers leuer arc are awaiting for the mill mi to operate before before be boo extraction fore toro continuing mining n-mining or Recent development work on the Codd lease lense which Is the No 2 lease of tho the Rochester Mines company compan estate has re resulted re- re suited in making almost another mine 01 of suled this estate Codd crosscut croscut sixty feet teet from thi this shaft shaf back Into Ino tho the foot wall wal and cut a 11 new vein H He 1 has his since drifted feet in thu this ore or to the end lines of his tec ground This ThiN vein Is also developed developed devel devel- I by a which is down below the drift forty feet and sun still In ore with ever indications that It will wi make to I much ch greater grealer depth r The average width of or the time vein Is eight feet and It carries values of 15 5 a ton i throughout Vertically this new ore formation formation for tor- mation ac urs at a depth of feet teel from maton the surface but following the ve vein n the measurement will show that It makes to toa I a a. depth of ot wi teet feet The Tho showing Is one of a the best over O made In the time camp and itIs itis it itIs Is particularly Interesting in that it I Isan isan Is Isan I an entirely new vein exposure The Big Four lease i is 18 now crosscutting back to I the point where this vein will 1 make through its Us ground and amId will wi tap It I at a point about 30 feet from tram Its Is present lO workings The Tho other leasers are only carrying on development operations on a asmal small scale and some have hIe suspended I work smal entirely entirely- They wl all resume reume as soon as the mill mi is commissioned as thoy they I I know that greater reater profits profs will 1 be bo made I Iby by having the tho product converted Into Inlo a high grade concentrate on tho the ground We Ve have havo extended the leases In order that they ma may take advantage of or the time mm mill when It is completed The he mill company compan is a separate concern con con- I Icer cern though tho the Rochester Mines compan company com corn pany pan owns the tho control We Ve found that we had imad to do sonic some more financing to to construct the plant and amid decided not to burden the mine In an aim effort to either bond It or Increase capitalization Wo We I have completed I the pipe line ne digging and will now lay the water main It Is five wi miles in and will wi furnish ample mies water for the mill mm and other oIlier purposes While In the camp this trip I 1 completed com coin tho the compilation of tho the production and andI discovered of oC the tho camp since it was I find l that since January 1913 1013 there has ha been fn produced 0 of precious metals In excess of and and- of oC this amount slightly has mas come corne from the ground gound owned owned 1 shall ahall by the Rochester Mines company of th this return to the tho camp tho the later part part s week and amid remain there thero while the mill mi Is being constructed |